BRENDAN Fevola has revealed he would take Sudafed “to make my head feel better” before playing every AFL game.

Now a banned substance, Fevola made the revelation to his campmates on I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here!

“I used to take Sudafed before every game,” the former Brisbane Lions and Carlton player said.

“I used to take it before every game just to make my head feel better and then it got banned so we’re not allowed to take it.”

media_camera Brendan Fevola has spoken out about drug use in the AFL during his stint on I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! Picture: Ten

Rugby league great Paul ‘The Chief’ Harragon chimed in on the issue.

“It’s been banned for a fair while, ages. In the NRL, AFL ... if you’ve got a headache, basic pharmaceutical things you can’t take.”

In 2003, Shane Warne was famously suspended from playing cricket the day before the start of the World Cup after testing positive to a diuretic. At the time, he said he had taken the prescription medicine, Moduretic, he had been given by his mother.

“I took a fat pill,” he declared. “I took what was called from my mum a fluid tablet ... I got banned for a year.”

Of the extreme attention on professional athletes and drugs, Fevola said: “Just say I had six coffees before I ran out and if I got tested before I ran out, I’d be over (the limit) and I’d get banned because my caffeine levels are too high.”

I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! airs at 6.30pm on Channel Ten tonight.

Originally published as Fevola: ‘I took Sudafed before games’