As per Page Six, Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee recalled the lowest point in his drug addiction during the height of the band’s success.
“There was a point where, I was with my bass player [Nikki Sixx], and we were just doing a s—t load of heroin and we ran out,” he recalled on Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast Wednesday. “It was probably 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning and we were like, ‘F—k what are we going to do?’”
Lee recounted him and his bandmate Sixx filling up the cap with whiskey. They “pulled a couple of syringes” and injected it into their veins, hoping to replicate the high of heroin.
“We were shooting Jack Daniels,” Lee confessed. “At that moment, I went ‘OK, we could just drink this, but we’re shooting it. This is f—king wrong and somebody’s going to die.’”
The musician reflected on his and his bandmates’ years-long battles with addiction while being in the heavy metal band and how they would “eat handfuls” of sleeping pills and then go out partying.
“In 1989, we all decided we needed to go to rehab or someone was gonna die. We were zombies and people weren’t waking up. We were like someone’s going to die soon.”
Despite their rehab stay and attempt to stay clean, Lee and lead singer Vince Neil celebrated the final concert of their Dr. Feelgood tour in 1990 at a local strip club, picking up right where they left off with alcohol.
Lee would go on to struggle with sobriety for decades. “I think three years is the longest I’ve done [sober],” he admitted to Shepard.
“I get so excited that I’m like, ‘Oh my god, dude, I’ve been sober for a year,’ and I celebrate. That’s the f—ing problem.”
In 2022, the rock star, 63, posted a penis pic while being on a “motherf–king bender.”
“A couple of weeks ago, we had like a two-week break off the tour, and I went on a motherf–king bender, bro,” Lee admitted onstage at the time.
“I got f–king sideways as f–k and got naked and posted pictures of my d–k.”
Lee’s last public trip to rehab was in 2019, following a severe relapse with heavy drinking.
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The Crue strikes me as being the “Jackass” era of rock n’ roll drug user’s. Sure there’s been many before and since. Ozzy has a history of doing dumb stuff just ‘cause. I think it’s motivated by deep personal childhood pain, boredom, attention seeking and having easy access whether they have money or not.
Why is Tommy still posting [pics] of his pecker? More dumb stuff. Lol
Have you seen his porno? He’s still proud of his baby elephant trunk-LOL!
Oh yeah, I sure did. Lol
Reàlly to be honest it sounded cool to us back in the 80s. We were impressionable teens back then. Now it sounds stupid and pathetic. I don’t ever listen to Motley anymore. I only like Danger, Starry Eyes and On With The Show. The rest are horrible in my probably unpopular opinion
I just shake my head when I hear stories like this, as if we’re supposed to be impressed by how “rock and roll” it is. Shooting alcohol isn’t something to celebrate or glorify, it’s just straight up stupid.