MÖTLEY CRÜE Bassist Talks 'Rock Docs' On 'Piers Morgan Tonight' (Video)

February 15, 2012

MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx was interviewed on tonight's (Wednesday, February 15) edition of "Piers Morgan Tonight", the nightly hour-long show that replaced "Larry King Live" on CNN in January 2011.

A clip from the program, in which Sixx talks with Piers about the "rock docs" and how they enable the addict, can be seen below.

Speaking about physicians who cater to celebrity clients and end up being caught prescribing things inappropriately, Sixx said, "How does nobody get caught doing this? I don't have experience in that field, but I imagine if you're getting different prescriptions filled from different doctors, there have to be some checks and balances somewhere."

He also weighed in on the way celebrities can use employees and hangers-on to acquire drugs. Sixx asked, "Where does the fault lie? Is it with the artist?" He added, "I had to find the courage to turn my life around, but it took a minute for me to wake up and realize I was just a slave to the system. I was being put out there to work for months and months and months, because everybody gets paid again on the gross."

After the show aired, Sixx wrote on Facebook, "Amazing and honest interview on 'Piers' yonight! Thanks for calling out all the enablers. Hopefully soon the enablers will be held accountable and this madness stops. I personally am tired and sickened of losing these very talented people."

While having all the rock star riches and luxuries, Sixx told Sun Media that he once had a $5,000-a-day drug habit, one that is vividly chronicled in his 2007 memoir, "The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star".

"That's how I communicated," Sixx said. "I had to or I would go crazy and even as I was going crazy I had to write it down to see if what I was seeing and hearing and feeling was real.

"Cocaine was really the biggest downfall. Heroin you can maintain, sadly, but cocaine you start getting into the amounts of freebasing and mainlining you go into a whole other world of insanity."

(Thanks: NJthrasher)

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