HLN Official Interview: Nikki Sixx: I was declared dead

now I was reading all about you so I find out that you have had six drug overdoses is that why you call yourself Nikki Sixx no but that's a good story though what a great story what's the can I use how yeah but what is the six frog what's that well actually honestly there was a girl of his dating and she had a boyfriend named Nikki Sixx who was in a previous boyfriend and he was in a top 40 band and I really was going as Nikki London and I was in a band called London and I decided I want to change it because I don't want to be Nikki London of London and I was gonna change it to nine and I stole her yeah I think that's good well and you've done everything else but you know and then one time in these overdoses that you had you were declared dead yeah yeah how'd it feel to be dead oh god that's a great song title yeah I'm getting a lot of a lot of stuff from you yeah I should like Jim I didn't mean it like that well you know what it's it's so you see the light you know people say they see a light I I can tell you things I saw what you say that I shouldn't been over to a scene like I saw the hotel hallway I saw the ambulance I saw the limo that was there but you know I couldn't have really seen that because there was a sheet over me and you know I really kept that to myself for a lot of years until I did the behind the music thing and I kind of let it slip because other people kind of look at you and think you're a little bit crazy well no a lot of people believe that you there is something that happens where you are declared dead but you my feeling is you're not really dead I don't think your arm you're not really dead is what it is your mind is still operating that's why you've probably envisioned all these things yeah and and again you know like I've said I don't know may not have you've never seen that I may have just thought that and it kind of came out through you know all that but I would assume that this was a wake-up call for you right absolutely all the drug overdoses and they're new you're dead was that the end of your drug use I mean that was the beginning of the end it takes a while in addictions a really hard thing to kick but when you're on heroin I was up here coke pills alcohol at once oh yeah always you know white why just doing you just want it to obliterate this let's just go yeah and there was a lot of stuff for me being a very young child and coming from a broken home and being a teenage runaway yeah and all that stuff and then you get success and that's a hard thing to deal with and you know through recovery I've been able to do so much good stuff and it's I'm better songwriter you know the father of four I'm able to make decisions even in the face of adversity and and as an artist I feel pretty you know pretty centered you don't have to deal with all the same stuff we all have to deal with but I don't have anything to hide behind that I like that well there are a lot of guys and women I guess who go through a lot of trauma as children but they learn talented like you are and so they're in obscurity but you know you've gone all around the block and here you want to tell it because you're famous I mean I think we have a bit of a responsibility you know once you've been through a lot of stuff to just show it to the world that you can get through that kind of stuff and that's like when I was doing my new book and a lot of people as photographing they've been through way worse stuff than anybody in this room or a lot of people listening half and they've been able to turn their lives around that's what inspired me to shoot them and kind of tell their story and intermingle it with mine and I'm doing the book signings it's amazing I how many teenagers are coming up and they have tears in their eyes and young adults and they're like you know I feel so inspired because in the end the concept behind the book is you know you can get through anything if you want it bad enough

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Length: 3min 42sec (222 seconds)

Published: Tue May 10 2011