As days go, Monday was not Barry Bonds’ best one.
His ex-girlfriend Kimberly Bell testified in U.S. District Court in San Francisco that the former baseball slugger for the San Francisco Giants told her he used steroids but “didn’t shoot it up everyday like bodybuilders did,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Bonds is charged with lying about his steroid use while testifying before a federal grand jury.
Bell also testified that Bonds blamed a career-threatening elbow injury in 1999 to the use of steroids, the paper reported.
The drugs “somehow caused the muscles and tendons to grow faster than they could handle and (the elbow) somehow blew out,” Bell testified, according to the Chronicle.
She testified that after taking steroids Bonds became increasingly angry and controlling and muscular and “developed acne on his upper shoulders and back,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle. “His hair was falling out quickly, and he ended up shaving it all off.”
She testified that his testicles changed shape and shrunk.
The defense went after her during the cross examination, trying to portray her as a jilted lover who tried to profit from the relationship. She posed nude in Playboy and pitched a book about Bonds, the Chronicle reported.
