He also addressed the story at length in his new autobiography, Rod: The Autobiography, which has been excerpted by the Daily Beast. Stewart wrote that he once had his publicist share a room with his wife’s 7-year-old son because a hotel was overbooked. (Side note: Don’t do that to your publicist or a child. Inconsiderate.)

The now-deceased publicist met a man at a bar and brought him back to the room, so Stewart fired him the next day, Stewart said. But the publicist’s revenge, Stewart said, was “absolutely inspired.”

“He fed the press a story in which, as a consequence of an evening spent orally servicing a gang of sailors in a gay bar in San Diego, I had been required to check into a hospital emergency room to have my stomach pumped,” Stewart wrote. “I have never orally pleasured even a solitary sailor, let alone a ship’s worth in one evening. And I have never had my stomach pumped, either of naval-issue semen or of any other kind of semen.”