A TOP rugby star bought drugs at an M62 service station, it was revealed.

Former Great Britain hooker Terry Newton has revealed his shame over the illegal drug use which cost him his two-year deal with Wakefield – and insists it is widespread in the game.

Newton was banned for two years in February after testing positive for human growth hormone (HGH) last November.

Now, in an extract from his forthcoming autobiography Coming Clean, Newton admitted: “I can’t believe I allowed myself to be seduced by something that promised me so much, when in the end it’s taken so much.”

Newton’s drug use began after he left Bradford Bulls last July, but he claims he had heard about other players using the substance two years previously.

The 31-year-old said he obtained the drug from a fellow player, paying him £150 for a month’s supply in a service station on the M62.

He said: “From 2007 players were hearing about HGH. All we knew – or thought – was that it was undetectable. At the end of 2007, Great Britain played the Kiwis and there was a player involved who I’d heard was taking HGH and he got away with it.

“I’d heard about a number of players who were on it. Old, young, English, foreign... more and more were turning to it, believing they wouldn’t get caught.”