Tommy Lee revealed that the “Good Times” may have been hazardous to his health.
The Mötley Crüe drummer sat down with Bill Maher, 67, on Monday and admitted that back in the good old days he had a penchant for drinking “2 gallons of vodka” a day.
During the interview on Maher’s podcast, “Club Random,” he opened up about his struggle with alcoholism.
“Alcohol’s such a f—king weird one,” Lee explained. “It’s easy to fall in love with, the way it makes you feel, the way it makes you relax, and then all of a sudden you’re, like, ‘F–k! I’m drinking 2 gallons of vodka a day?’ You’re trying to kill yourself now.”
When Maher questioned the 61-year-old rocker in utter disbelief, Lee doubled down, stating: “Two gallons a day, I swear to you, dude. I swear to God.”
Still in a state of shock, Maher said, “I mean, your liver must be made of asbestos. For how long?”
“F—k, man. For a long time,” Lee replied about his vodka habit, which he says he ended around 1990. “That’s what I’m saying. I pinch myself on a daily basis.
“I just did, like, the full-body scan where they do, say, head-to-toe everything. And I can’t believe that smoking, drinking, all the dumb s—t or the fun s—t that I’ve done … dude, the doctor was like, ‘You’re good,’” he continued. “I was like, ‘Is that my name on there? Is there some Japanese guy in here that you have his results that you’re reading from? Because I find that f—ing impossible. This is impossible.’”
All jokes aside, Lee — who admitted to taking ecstasy and pills with swigs of Cristal or shots of Goldschläger throughout his life in the 2001 Mötley Crüe memoir, “The Dirt” — understands that his body has taken a beating from his wild and crazy past.
“Your liver is on crutches at that point. It’s barely functioning,” he said, ultimately explaining that the band decided it was time to clean up their act. “[We said,] ‘OK, dude, someone’s going to not wake up one morning. Like, this is getting f—ing ridiculous, right? As a band, we stop.’”
These days, Lee is high on life and nothing else.
“I just celebrated a year of sobriety,” he told Maher, although he said these “celebrations” might lead him to relapse. “I make it a year, and then I’m so stoked that I made it a year that I celebrate.”
Maher replied, “That is peak rock star on so many levels.”
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