Motley Crue is one of the most famous hair metal bands in the world. They were one of the most wild bands during their era and all partied and used drugs. The rest of the band struggled with addiction as well but Nikki Sixx was battling for his life.
Like many other musicians with drugs addictions Nikki had a rough child hood and was abandoned by his mother at a young age. During Nikki's teen years he was a rebel and was always getting in trouble for fighting, stealing, and using/selling drugs. When he met the other members of Motley Crue in his teen years all hell broke loose. They were living the rock star life and were loving it. It was all fun and games at first but Nikki's life was spiraling out of control fast. He went through a long and tough battle with Cocaine and Heroin. His paranoia got so bad at one point that he would spend many nights in his house hiding in his closet because he thought the police were coming to get him. He would hold his shotgun and contemplated killing him self over and over again. One time during his addiction he overdosed twice in one night. He overdosed in a drug dealers house so they dumped him in a trashcan when he woke up and went back to his house and overdosed again in his bathroom. After this he decided that he wanted to get off of drugs. He still struggled with drug use for a while after that but he managed to finally stay clean and sober. He wrote a book called "The Heroin Diaries" which goes through a year of his life of drug use and trying to get clean. Since the book Nikki has helped thousands of teenagers stay off drugs and is still living clean and sober today.
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