From The Archives: Nikki Sixx – The Heroin Diaries0

by Erin Broadley

It’s December 25th 1986, and Nikki Sixx is alone in his mansion, crouched naked under his Christmas tree with a needle in his arm, scribbling in his diary about watching his “holiday spirit coagulate in a spoon.” He writes, “”Merry Christmas…it’s just you and me, diary. Welcome to my life.””

This is just one scene from a particularly harrowing chapter in Motley Crue bassist and founder Nikki Sixx’’s new memoir “The Heroin Diaries” – a collection of riveting entries from his personal journals spanning one year from 1986 to 1987, a year he considers the height of his downward spiral into drug addiction. It’’s a story about drugs, depression, and the train-wreck of self-destruction – but ultimately it’’s one man’’s story about survival told with unflinching and unapologetic honesty.

Sober now for 6 years, Sixx is the founder of the charity Running Wild in the Night (a fundraising program for the Covenant House) and will donate part of the proceeds from the book to help troubled kids get off the streets and away from drugs.

SuicideGirls caught up with the original glam-metal bad boy to chat about his darker days and why the future looks so bright…

Read our exclusive interview with Nikki Sixx on SuicideGirls.com.