A Day In Rock: December 23rd, 1987 – Nikki Sixx Dies… But Not For Long
On this day thirty-seven years ago… Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx died from a drug overdose. He was pronounced dead in the ambulance before medics administered two adrenaline shots in the chest which revived him.
Media outlets started reporting Sixx’s death.
But after an in-hospital interrogation by police he was released on his own recognizance (ignoring medical advice to stay under doctor’s care).
While wandering shirtless in the hospital parking lot, he encountered two crying fans who gave him a lift home.
Once home, Sixx recorded an answering machine message. “Hey, it’s Nikki. I’m not home because I’m dead.” He then took more heroin and passed out again.
“Heroin nearly killed me. As a matter of fact, it did,” Sixx wrote in an editorial 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.”
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