Nikki Sixx Gets Candid About Addiction (2007)

at the height of your heroin abuse yeah okay yeah you had a closet in your house where you like to go in that closet and vomit i like to go in the in the closet and do drugs because when you're especially on cocaine you're getting paranoid you want to be in a confined place so it became my little ritual place but i wouldn't vomit in the closet i would somehow make it to the bathroom i see but listen here's the thing okay heroin makes you throw up right cocaine when you inject it makes you throw up so you were injecting i was injecting i was smoking i was doing the whole thing and you were buying drugs in bulk in other words you were a smart drug addict what i call a smart drug addict because if you got the kind of money you do why don't you just buy a bunch of drugs so you have them there like a carton of cigarettes you know if you're a cigarette smoker you get a carton when you go out why be so tied to your heroin dealer everybody see him every day i mean if you're gonna be saying that you're a smart drug addict is kind of like it's kind of like saying when someone said to me the day they go you know you're the brains of motley crew i was like you know what i mean if you're going to be a drug addict you might as well have a supply so you're not constantly chasing some deal dealers aren't the most reliable people in the world are they yeah you think yeah i mean they're tough to get a hold of it but you keep throwing up from these drugs you don't ever get used to them it just depends you know the the coke almost always makes you cute is that right look at this in your book i'm gonna read a couple of statements you gotta you gotta you gotta comment on it this is the only place that i've done any type of press or anything where you can actually read my book listen to this my new addiction is drinking tons of water right before i shoot coke then puking it all up in the jacuzzi as my head explodes into the stratosphere why not i'm engaged in a dance of death in this house wow um you you would drink tons of water it's all about puking and doing drugs yeah well here's you know what i don't see where the enjoyment is in that statement there's no enjoyment in addiction yeah that's the thing it's like i try to talk to these kids about this and i say there is no enjoying hell because you're just trying to feel good yeah you're just trying to nurture something that if you don't take care of it you're going to feel like you're you're dying so that's the problem with addiction you know and if you if you figure out what it is that's making you get into the addiction it's easier to get out of the addiction even though the physical withdrawal of it is horrible and painful when you shoot heroin you have to mix the heroin with water and boil it up and all that right china white water persian lemon okay it's like a cooking show why then you're standing in your house you're a wealthy man you can take sink water and mix your heroin why did you use toilet water the water from a toilet to mix your heroin with oh because that was at a denny's you were at denny's i was driving to rehearsal on a motorcycle this makes it worse oh wait way worse because it's that water it's got some pretty in that way you know total strangers yeah this this is the deal when you have to have something you have to have it you don't care you'll go to but you could have used the sink water why the toilet water because i had to go in the stall to put it in because otherwise what if like you know grandma molasses walks in and there's some guy sitting there shooting up you didn't eat at denny's you just shoot up at denny's right who would eat it exactly you had to worry about your health but wait a second i don't understand one thing so you go there you shoot up you know in the toilet and the toilet water and all this kind of stuff but the fact of the matter is that you really are trying to kill yourself you technically died one time you say in the book yeah i mean here's the deal i think that it had gotten so confusing so insane in my head that i knew no other way and it was really sad and you had everything going for you yeah i mean one time you said you overdosed a heroin dealer beat you with a bat to just to bring you back to life the other time when you were hanging out with slash and his girlfriend you overdose slash's girlfriend brings you to the emergency room you didn't know this you wake up and you say there could be life after death because you saw the whole thing you said you were they said you were technically dead and you said you saw yourself laying in bed you saw the hospital room and you were above the room so do you believe in life after death pretty pretty close i mean i it's when i overdosed at the hotel they put me on the gurney i had a you know later i was like it feels like i could see the whole thing and i blurted it out i blurted it out on uh behind the music and i was like why did i say that i'm gonna have to talk about this forever then when i found the diaries i actually saw the entries where i was saying i i don't know what it was but something something something happened and that was really when i said i got to clean up and this is like out of control whether i hallucinated it or whether i saw it but it was written down on a piece of paper so that kind of freaked me out do i believe in life after death you know i'm not sure

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Length: 5min 12sec (312 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 24 2021