You've got to take that with a grain of salt. No one has ever backed up his story. And, when confronted by Mitchell, Gooden denied he ever wrote what was in his auto-biography [I doubt he even knows how to write].

Here's Snopes take with the full excerpt from Gooden's book and a detailed analysis of its possible veracity.

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No one has proved it either way. I'm surprised no one from PETA is involved.