💥 Inside The Steps: Sylvester Stallone’s RAW, Shocking Memoir Exposes the Truth Behind Rocky, Regrets, and Revenge 📷😱

In The Steps, Sylvester Stallone doesn’t just tell his life story — he bleeds it onto the page.

This isn’t a polished PR fluff piece or some carefully curated legacy project.

It’s raw, reckless, and reveals a man far more complicated than the indestructible characters he made famous.

From the streets of Hell’s Kitchen to the blood-soaked battlegrounds of Hollywood, Stallone chronicles his meteoric rise, devastating failures, and personal demons in what might be the most unfiltered celebrity memoir in decades.

One of the most powerful threads running through the book is his relationship with his face — and no, that’s not vanity.

Stallone dives deep into the trauma of being born with partial facial paralysis due to a forceps delivery that severed a nerve, leaving him with his iconic slurred speech and drooping lip.

He recalls the childhood bullying with excruciating detail, saying, “I wasn’t just the kid with the weird mouth — I was the freak no one wanted to sit next to.

” The emotional scars from that early cruelty became the fuel for the defiant, never-say-die energy that would define Rocky Balboa.

Speaking of Rocky, The Steps peels back every layer of the rags-to-riches fairytale — and exposes the brutality behind it.

Stallone reveals that before Rocky, he was so broke he had to sell his dog outside a liquor store just to buy food.

The heartbreaking photo of him and his beloved Butkus — now published for the first time — is captioned simply: “I let him down.

Then I fought like hell to get him back.

” When Rocky finally sold, the first thing Stallone did was buy Butkus back — for $15,000, nearly all of his first paycheck.

But Stallone also calls out the sharks who tried to cash in on his underdog moment.

He names producers who lowballed him, actors who tried to steal his lines, and the studio execs who wanted someone else — anyone else — to play Rocky.

“They said I looked like I’d been hit in the face with a frying pan,” Stallone writes.

“They said Paul Newman or Burt Reynolds could do it better.

I told them, ‘Then don’t do it at all.

In one of the book’s most explosive chapters, Stallone turns the spotlight on Hollywood betrayal — and delivers knockout blows to some A-list names.

While he never drops names directly, the clues are undeniable.

One “Oscar-winning action star” is described as a “backstabbing egomaniac who tried to sabotage Cliffhanger by demanding script rewrites behind my back.

” Another, a “beloved comedy icon,” allegedly pulled out of a Stallone project after mocking him in a late-night monologue, which Stallone calls “a knife in the gut.

” The bitterness is real — but so is the honesty.

Then there’s the family drama — and it’s messier than a barroom brawl in Cobra.

Stallone opens up for the first time about his complicated relationship with his father, who he accuses of being “physically abusive, emotionally absent, and jealous of my success.

” He describes one chilling incident in his teens where his father punched him so hard he was knocked unconscious.

“That was the moment I stopped being his son and started being my own man,” he writes.

There are rare, haunting photos of his bruised face from that time — photos Stallone says he “kept hidden for fifty years.

But The Steps isn’t all grit and darkness.

There are moments of shocking vulnerability, like the birth of his son Sage, who would later die of heart disease at 36.

Stallone calls it “the greatest pain I’ve ever known,” and shares a series of never-before-seen photos of Sage as a child — laughing on set, dressed as Rambo for Halloween, and clinging to his dad’s leg on the Rocky V set.

“I made so many mistakes as a father,” Stallone confesses.

“This book is me trying to make peace with that.

He also dishes on his secret battles with depression, steroid use in the ‘80s, and a terrifying suicide attempt in 1982 that was only stopped because “I missed the vein.

” These are the confessions no one expected from a man who played the world’s most invincible heroes.

“I played Superman, but I felt like Clark Kent with concrete boots,” he writes.

And then — in perhaps the most unexpected twistof all — The Steps dives deep into Stallone’s obsession with legacy.

He admits that he’s “terrified of being forgotten,” and that Rocky’s iconic climb up the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps was always about more than victory.

“That wasn’t just a training montage.

That was me, a no-name from nothing, proving to myself that I belonged in history.

Those steps were never about the top — they were about surviving the climb.

As fans dig through the rare photos — behind-the-scenes shots from First Blood, unfiltered family moments, and even bizarre, surreal images from abandoned film projects — they’ll discover a Stallone who’s more complicated, more damaged, and more human than anyone imagined.

In the end, The Steps isn’t just a memoir.

It’s a war cry, a confession, and a final round in a life that’s been one long fight.

Sylvester Stallone may have played the world’s toughest characters — but in this book, he does something far braver: he tells the truth.

And once you read it, you’ll never look at Rocky — or Sly himself — the same way again.