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Stop the presses, drag the editor out of bed, and slap a piece of duct tape over the newsie boy’s mouth, Siegfried and Roy have just dropped an atomic bombshell of a scoop.

According to The National Enquirer, the two are writing a tell-all book about their lives together, and in it they finally admit they were once lovers. When their affair ended, they remained partners and good friends.

Being that this is an entirely unsurprising bit of news (the one time the National Enquirer gets a real scoop, it’s for something everybody has known basically since hearing that two magicians work together under the names Siegfriend and Roy), somewhat along the lines of Britney Spears declaring that she has some regrets about her life and Madonna deciding to adopt a Moon Baby, I thought I’d highlight the other part of the story I found interesting:

The Enquirer reports the performers battled drug problems – Siegfried was addicted to Valium twenty years ago, and Roy says he was hooked on painkillers after he his Tiger mauling.

I’m not so sure you can call it a “painkiller addiction,” so much so as it’s “trying to overcome the pain of being mauled by a tiger.”

Sorry, ladies. Check your dreams at the door.

Siegfried and Roy announce they’re gay – People