Iconic rocker Rod Stewart has written a new book, entitled 'Rod: The Autobiography', and in it he chose to reveal some shocking secrets including a particularly bizarre story about his former drug use.

The 'Maggie May' legend explained that he used to take cocaine, but didn't use the narcotic in a traditional way because he didn't want to destroy his nasal passages. He writes:

"We started buying anti-cold capsules from the chemist's, separating the two halves of the capsules, replacing their contents with a pinch of cocaine, and then taking the capsules anally, where, of course, the human body being a wonderful thing, they would dissolve effortlessly into the system."

The autobiography also clears up a long-standing rumour, which suggested that Stewart once has his stomach pumped after ingesting large quantities of semen.

"[Tony Toon, his former publicist] fed the press a story in which, as a consequence of an evening spent orally servicing a gang of sailors in a gay bar in San Diego, I had been required to check into a hospital emergency room to have my stomach pumped."

"I have never orally pleasured even a solitary sailor... And I have never had my stomach pumped, either of naval-issue semen nor of any other kind of semen."