 He was also ordered to pay back $27,500 in grants to the Australian Sports Commission, and was stripped of his February 2011 world record.Ball said that taking the steroids was an honest mistake that had devastated him.In his submission to ASADA, he said that he had been suffering depression for the previous twelve months and admitted that he had taken "up to four tablets, the name and exact constituents of which he did not know at the time (and still does not know), obtained from a close friend"; he said that he believed the tablets were vitamins that would help him to recover from depression.