Nikki Sixx's near-fatal heroin overdose in 1987 was the culmination of years of addiction.
In May 1987, Mötley Crüe released their fourth studio album, Girls, Girls, Girls. It was the band's third album in a row to go quadruple platinum and the second highest charter on the Billboard 200 that year, after Whitney Houston's self-titled album, Whitney.
“Heroin nearly killed me. As a matter of fact, it did,” Sixx wrote in an editorial about the opioid crisis for the Los Angeles Times. “From the outside looking in, I was living the dream. But in reality, I was in the throes of a disease I couldn’t control, addicted to heroin.” At first, he only smoked heroin, cooking brown lumps of tar on tinfoil and sucking up the vapor. But two friends, one from glam metal band Ratt, taught him to use needles instead. “It was all over. The first time I shot up, I just passed out,” Sixx relates in The Dirt. “Vince’s vice was women and, with those first shots, I learned that mine was to be drugs, for the rest of my life.”Soon after, Sixx was mixing cocaine into his heroin to keep him from passing out.
“He was emaciated; he sweated constantly; and his skin was pure yellow, dude,” Lee wrote in The Dirt. “He kept excusing himself to go to the bathroom, and then he’d return and start nodding off in the middle of the ceremony. As a best man, he was so fucked up on heroin he was useless. I couldn’t believe he was shooting up at my fucking wedding.”
The singer next heard from Mötley Crüe's accountant, Chuck Shapiro, who said a reporter had called asking for a quote for Sixx's obituary. Neil stayed on the line while Shapiro called the hospital for confirmation.
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