A recruit to the new TV series of SAS: Who Dares Wins has revealed he was addicted to body-building steroids – until his daughter was born.
Firefighter Pete Wakefield was injecting himself every day with growth hormones plus oral steroids and twice-weekly steroid injections – what he called his special sauce.
The 6ft 5in hulk had so many abscesses from injecting he described himself as like a Swiss cheese rattling with holes. But the birth of Lilly, now 10, made him turn his life around. Pete, 33, who got addicted as a teenager while using the gym after being bullied, told the Sunday People : “I’d been so comfortable lying to myself all of that time.
