Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx has commented on KISS’ bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons suggesting that people who suffer from depression should kill themselves.
According to blabbermouth.net, Sixx said that people who are suffering from depression should not “listen to people who don’t know what they’re talking about.”
During last night’s episode of his Sixx Sense With Nikki Sixx radio show, Sixx said, “It’s pretty moronic [of Gene to say what he said], because he thinks everybody listens to him, that he is the god of thunder and he will tell you he is the greatest man on earth. And, to be honest with you, I like Gene. But in this situation, I don’t like Gene. I don’t like Gene’s words, because … there is a 20-year-old kid out there who is a KISS fan and reads this and goes, ‘You know what? He’s right. I should just kill myself.’ If I had killed myself, my four beautiful children would not be here today. I wanted to talk about what I’ve done with my recovery and my depression and something I think Gene should use as a model.
I got off the drugs and alcohol and it was the hardest thing I ever did in my life. I didn’t think I could ever be off the heroin, to be honest with you. I got off the heroin and I couldn’t leave my house. I didn’t have any social skills, I didn’t know how to interact with people. I pretty much started to go deeper and deeper and deeper into a depression. So I went to a therapist. And it was the first time I had ever been to a therapist. And I said, ‘I just feel hopeless.’ Now, if I went to see Gene Simmons, he would have said, ‘Well, you know, Nikki, if you’re depressed, you should just kill yourself.’ But this therapist said, ‘Hey, there are ways out.’ And he gave me an experimental drug at the time called Prozac, and it got me on the right path. And then I got off of it. And I got out of my depression. And I then went to have these four beautiful children, I wrote the Dr. Feelgood album, I’ve had a wonderful life. I did not take that way out.
And what I’m saying is: for people who are depressed, there is a way out. There are many, many ways out. And I don’t want people to listen to an interview from a rock star who’s telling you the only way out is out, when I’m telling you, and I wrote it in [my book] The Heroin Diaries, you can get out of this…
One in 10 Americans are affected by depression at one point in their life, so this is another thing to think about. At one point in your life, meaning it will come and it will go…
They say all bad things must pass, all bad things will pass. So keep that in the back of your mind if you’re feeling depression, and don’t listen to people who don’t know what they’re talking about.”
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In related news, Triple M’s Network head, Mike Fitzpatrick has just pulled all KISS tracks from playlists around Australia. In a statement on the Triple M web-site Fitzpatrick says “Gene Simmons’ recent comments are misguided and insensitive. Depression and Suicide are not topics he should be using to further his notoriety or sell records. His desperation to use mental health issues to find relevancy in a modern age is sickening. I can only put it down to a brain fade on his part. The Triple M Network can’t and won’t be playing or supporting this d-ckhead’s music. I put the challenge out to other stations across Australia and North America to also drop any of this nudnik’s songs until such time as he reconsiders his thoughtless and insensitive position.”
Simmons has also been labelled a hypocrite after he tweeted, “R.I.P. Robin Williams. A kind and generous man,” in the wake of the actor’s tragic death this week.
source: blabbermouth.net and scenestr.com.au
56 Responses
Finally someone with good advice! Thank you Nikki for telling Gene to shut up and educate himself on depression. Killing yourself is not the answer, seeking help is the answer that’s why there are therapists out there to help those who suffer from it!
Gene Simmons is an Ass!
Gene, an ass? Nah, these latest and impeccably ill-timed and insensitive comments indicate that he’s the smelly, dark brown, nasty core of the butt – the a-hole. He knows it, based on the title of his 2004 solo flop. He’ll keep jawing nonsense until he’s buried in his KISS coffin with his shades on.
Well said …
Hey Eddie. Have you heard many reviews on the current Crue tour with Alice? Heard they kind of got off to a shaky start but, nothing since. Trying to decide if I want to see them in my home state of Georgia this weekend.
GO SEE THEM!!!!! I saw the show last week! Alice was amazing and has a full stage show; pyro, blood, bombs…and Crue had the biggest stage show I’ve seen in years! F*cking HUGE. You will have a great time, I did and I was all the way back in the lawn seats (it was an outdoor ampitheater). Oh, did I mention the music? GO, Go, Go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wish I could see it twice!
Crue/Cooper crushed in OKC!! Go!! & Gene, while often insufferably pomp-the-f-kus, DID NOT mean for all sufferers of clinically diagnosable depression to jump. He was venting against the whiny p-y boys of today’s rock music who act like they’ve had such a tough life they should be stars irregardless of how bad they suck on the guitar or mike.
Cheers to Nikki always!! After this tour, do another Corabi record!!
James Perkins
Houston, Texas
Nikki went from being a “Rock ‘N’ Roll Junkie”, to a Rock ‘N’ Roll Hero!
Can’t wait to see the Crue again in October! 🙂
Gene also recently defended Donald sterling…………….what an utter piece of crap gene is! Good job nikki! Put this egotistical clown in his place!
He defended Sterling’s right to say the crap said, not what he said. he also defended Gibson’s right to say what he said after Mel’s [racist] rant. I’m sure he didn’t agree with what he said. Updated with a radio station ban. Is it really a ban for a station that hardly ever plays them? They’ll have to buy some CD’s to throw away.