Barry Bonds's former mistress said in court on Monday that the baseball star's testicles changed shape and he often became enraged with her, which prosecutors say is evidence that Bond used steroids.
Kimberly Bell told the U.S. District Court in San Francisco that Bonds suffered from impotence, hair loss and acne. He admitted he was using steroids when she quizzed him about an elbow injury he was trying to overcome, she said.
"He said it was because of the steroids, because it somehow caused the muscle and tendons to grow faster than the joint could handle, it sort of blew out," she testified.
After he began using the steroids, Bonds' testicles took on an "unusual shape," Bell said. "He had trouble keeping an erection," she said.
Bonds has pleaded not guilty to charges he lied to a grand jury about whether he knowingly used steroids. His case is the latest in a lengthy U.S. investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports.
The charges stem from his 2003 appearance before a U.S. grand jury investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, or BALCO, whose head has pleaded guilty to dispensing steroids to professional athletes.
Bonds told the grand jury he did not knowingly use steroids or growth hormones and said he never questioned the flaxseed oil, vitamins, protein shakes and creams his trainer, Greg Anderson, supplied him.
Bell testified that Bonds became increasingly irritable, and he repeatedly threatened to "cut off my head and leave me in a ditch." The former San Francisco Giants star also threatened to "tear out my breast implants because he had paid for them," she added, her voice breaking.
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston sent Anderson to jail last week after he refused to testify in a case that is the latest in a lengthy investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports.
As a member of the San Francisco Giants, Bonds established a series of landmark batting records, but his performances aroused suspicions.
In 2001, he hit 73 home runs, a single-season record that still stands. In 2007, his last season in Major League Baseball, he broke Hank Aaron's 33-year-old record for career home runs.
Three months later, a grand jury indicted him for making false statements and for obstruction of justice.
Kimberly Bell told the U.S. District Court in San Francisco that Bonds suffered from impotence, hair loss and acne. He admitted he was using steroids when she quizzed him about an elbow injury he was trying to overcome, she said.
"He said it was because of the steroids, because it somehow caused the muscle and tendons to grow faster than the joint could handle, it sort of blew out," she testified.
After he began using the steroids, Bonds' testicles took on an "unusual shape," Bell said. "He had trouble keeping an erection," she said.
Bonds has pleaded not guilty to charges he lied to a grand jury about whether he knowingly used steroids. His case is the latest in a lengthy U.S. investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports.
The charges stem from his 2003 appearance before a U.S. grand jury investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, or BALCO, whose head has pleaded guilty to dispensing steroids to professional athletes.
Bonds told the grand jury he did not knowingly use steroids or growth hormones and said he never questioned the flaxseed oil, vitamins, protein shakes and creams his trainer, Greg Anderson, supplied him.
Bell testified that Bonds became increasingly irritable, and he repeatedly threatened to "cut off my head and leave me in a ditch." The former San Francisco Giants star also threatened to "tear out my breast implants because he had paid for them," she added, her voice breaking.
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston sent Anderson to jail last week after he refused to testify in a case that is the latest in a lengthy investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports.
As a member of the San Francisco Giants, Bonds established a series of landmark batting records, but his performances aroused suspicions.
In 2001, he hit 73 home runs, a single-season record that still stands. In 2007, his last season in Major League Baseball, he broke Hank Aaron's 33-year-old record for career home runs.
Three months later, a grand jury indicted him for making false statements and for obstruction of justice.
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