Rod Stewart Had His Stomach Pumped After a Sex Act

Why this one travels: a famously charming rock star, a humiliating comeuppance, and a punchline that delivers itself. Why it is nonsense: there is no hospital, no date, no city, no admitting doctor, no source beyond the playground and the pub. The exact same story has been pinned on a rotating cast of male celebrities for decades, which is the surest sign you are dealing with an urban legend that floats free of any one person and simply lands on whoever is famous that year. Stewart has addressed and flatly denied it more times than he should ever have had to. It persists for the same reason the Richard Gere rumour does. People enjoy taking a glamorous star down a peg, and a rumour that can never be proven also can never quite be killed.