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July 23, 2026 – 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, and we were just doing a s—t load of heroin and we ran out,” Lee recounted him and his bandmate Nikki 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.”
