It's official: Charlie Sheen really has taken every drug known to man.

Sheen told Playboy magazine he took steroids while playing a baseball star in the film "Major League."

The lifelong baseball fan said he took steroids to better his pitching skills. "I wanted to put a little zip on my fastball. I didn't want to look like I was lily-arming it up there. I was always a hit-the-spots, low-zone pitcher, but my character, Ricky Vaughn, is a flamethrower. With steroids I went from a modest 78 mile-per-hour to a decent 85, which on film can be made to look in the 90s."

Sheen said he took steroids for three months during filming, but he quickly realized there was a downside to taking performance-enhancing drugs once the movie wrapped. "I got injured a lot afterward. Steroids build your muscles, but they don't build your tendons or ligaments. Once you start altering your body's blueprint, things start falling apart."

Of course it was just the steroids hurting Sheen's body, not anything else he might have put inside it.

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