Baseball outcast Jose Canseco regrets writing his 2005 steroids tell-all "Juiced" and is scared for his health after 23 years of performance-enhancing drug use, an addiction he claims he kicked only this year, The New York Daily News reported.
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"The biggest mistake I made was, I should have not written (the book)," Canseco said. "The more I think about it, the more I regret mentioning these players in my book."
The disclosures are part of "Jose Canseco: The Last Shot," a one-hour documentary airing Monday night on A&E. The program followed Canseco this summer through a trail of health, financial and personal setbacks and notes his Oct. 9 arrest for trying to smuggle a female fertility drug across the Mexican border.
Canseco, 44, was arraigned on a misdemeanor charge last week and has a Nov. 4 court date.
In the documentary, Canseco reiterates his claim that baseball powerbrokers forced him out of the game, angering him to the point that he "wanted revenge." The book was his revenge, he said, and he named names "to show I was telling the truth" about the steroid culture.
Canseco wrote in "Juiced" that he injected Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro, Juan Gonzalez and Ivan Rodriguez with steroids.
The program does not get into Canseco's role in the Roger Clemens perjury investigation or the release of "Vindicated," a book labeling Alex Rodriguez as a possible steroids user. An A&E spokesman said there was not enough time to fit in all of Canseco's recent problems.
