Bonds Ex-Mistress Tells of Barry's Steroid Use

Not long ago, we told you that Barry Bonds' ex-mistress, Kimberly Bell, was set to appear in Playboy, and write a tell-all book. Well, nude photos and an accompanying article are set to appear in November's issue of the magazine. In an effort to promote the spread, Bell was interviewed by the New York Daily News where she told of Bonds' steroids use:

His body had grown thicker, his back was pocked with acne, his hair had fallen out and his testicles had shriveled when Bonds asked his former mistress if she thought anyone would suspect he was on the juice.

"Do I look bloated?" Bonds wanted to know. "Does it look funny? Do you think this is obvious?"
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"I don't see how anyone could not have known, but everybody looked the other way," said Bell, who claims the slugger admitted using the juice to her in 1999."
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Bonds was always moody - "I always figured he had PMS, like a woman," Bell said – but the drugs radically changed his behavior as well as his body. He became a different person, controlling, threatening and finally violent. "It went from 'I want to know where you are at' to 'I'm gonna f------ kill you. I'm gonna cut your head off and leave you in a ditch.'"

I always consider ex-anythings unreliable sources because you figure they are out to destroy the character of their former lover. Still, where there's smoke there's fire, and when you couple this story with what we've already read in Game of Shadows and elsewhere, you find that quite a mountain of implicating evidence exists. Ultimately, the Bonds detractors will point to these stories to prove their point, while Bonds supporters will demand a failed drug test, ignoring the fact that designer steroids are undetectable.