One of the more disturbing stories in Motley Crue’s 2001 book The Dirt — an anecdote not portrayed in the upcoming movie based on it — is about a possible sexual assault at a party. And now bassist Nikki Sixx says he probably made the whole thing up.
While interviewing Sixx about the film, Rolling Stone asked him about the part of the book where he took a girl he knew into a small, closet-sized room to have sex, and then brought Tommy Lee in to take over for him, even though the woman thought it was still Sixx. The next morning she called Sixx and told him she’d been raped, but while hitchhiking home that night. In the book Sixx said, “At first, I was relieved, because it meant I hadn’t raped her. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I pretty much had. I was in a zone, though, and in that zone, consequences did not exist.”
Now Sixx says, “I don’t actually recall that story in the book beyond reading it. I have no clue why it’s in there other than I was outta my head and it’s possibly greatly embellished or [I] made it up. Those words were irresponsible on my part. I am sorry.”
Sixx says, “There was a little bit of embellishment here and there with Neil Strauss.” Strauss, who co-wrote the book, declined to comment.
Sixx told the magazine the book was written “during a really low point in my life. I had lost my sobriety and was using drugs and alcohol to deal with a disintegrating relationship which I still to this day regret how I handled. I honestly don’t recall a lot of the interviews with Neil. I went into rehab in 2001 and really wish I would’ve done my interviews after I was clean and sober like I am today.”
