12/26/2021
On this day in 1987, Nikki Sixx died (momentarily) of a he**in overdose. After a long night of partying with Slash, Steven Adler, and Robbin Crosby, paramedics arrived to find Nikki passed out cold. Even though his heart had stopped and his body had turned blue, they were eventually able to resuscitate him with a large dose of adrenaline. A few hours later, he miraculously woke up in the hospital. In the He**in Diaries, he wrote “There was a cop asking me questions, so I told him to go f**k himself. I ripped out my tubes and staggered in just my leather pants into the parking lot, where two teenage girls were sitting crying around a candle. They had heard on the radio that I was dead and looked kind of surprised to see me.” The teenagers gave Sixx a jacket, a lecture about quitting drugs...and a ride home in their Mazda. Kickstart my heart! 🤘🏻💉
