Sylvester Stallone was so worried about two of his daughters moving to New York City that he took them to a self-defense boot camp with an ex-Navy SEAL — where training included chasing a chicken as he did in "Rocky II."
In the premiere of "The Family Stallone," which follows the lives of the actor and his family, Sophia Stallone, 27, and Sistine Stallone, 25, go with their father to a one-day self-defense retreat.
The pair moved to NYC in March 2023, and the episode was filmed during the summer of 2023. Stallone takes his daughters to the boot camp when they return from NYC to the family home in Los Angeles.
In the episode, which is out now on Paramount+, Stallone says he couldn't sleep at night thinking about his daughters living in NYC, because of the bad experience she had before rising to fame in the "Rocky" movies.
"My daughters have moved to New York, which is kind of traumatic because I spent many, many years in New York," Stallone says, recalling how he lived on the streets in the early 1970s. "Everyday robbery, physical attacking. Cars were coming over curbs. People throwing acid on you."
He adds: "You had to keep your head on a swivel, and I never gotten over that."
According to the sisters and their mother, Jennifer Flavin, this is not the first time Sylvester Stallone has been overprotective.
"Honestly, my dad is the most paranoid person on the planet," Sistine says in the episode. "He made us practice pepper spraying each other."
"He put a little knife in my backpack in fourth grade. Probably shouldn't say that," she adds.
Here is a breakdown of their training.