![]() That same year they released 900 copies of their first studio album, Too Fast for Love. They soon recruited guitarist Mick Mars and singer Vince Neil, and Mötley Crüe was formed. In 1981, Sixx began practicing with drummer Tommy Lee. To this day it has never stopped, no matter how much work I do on myself." "Everything in my life became about chasing that feeling. The static in my head and my body that I felt all day every day just went away," Sixx wrote in The Heroin Diaries. "Once that pot and whisky hit my system, my mind went KABOOM and my whole world changed. Sixx traces his addictive personality back to 1965, when his stepdad urged him to take a hit from a joint and a pull from a bottle of Jack Daniels while on vacation in Guadalajara, Mexico. In his book The Heroin Diaries, he describes himself as "a man who was so hooked on heroin and cocaine that he had to die twice before he began to contemplate a more positive lifestyle." Nikki Sixx and Mötley Crüe's History of Partying and Addiction Sixx's overdose was the culmination of years of addiction. ![]() But in reality, I was in the throes of a disease I couldn't control, addicted to heroin." "From the outside looking in, I was living the dream. As a matter of fact, it did," Sixx wrote in an editorial about the opioid crisis for the Los Angeles Times. The acclaimed bassist wandered shirtless into the hospital parking lot, where two crying fans found him and gave him a lift home. In reality, the musician woke up in the hospital and, after an in-hospital interrogation by police, Sixx was released on his own recognizance. When the overdose became public knowledge, media outlets started reporting Sixx's death. "No one's going to die in my f***ing ambulance," Sixx recalls the paramedic saying in the Mötley Crüe autobiography The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band.
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