
And next thing you know, the purple in his face just disappeared. "I dragged him into the shower with a broken hand and a cast on my hand, I rolled him in, I put the cold water on him in the shower and I started slapping him in the face with my cast. " didn't do that," Adler said, referring to Sixx's claim about the shots of adrenaline. EMTs pronounced him dead, Sixx claims, before reviving him with two shots of adrenaline into his heart. The bassist has long claimed he wrote the song after one night in 1987 when he took so much heroin that his heart stopped. Former Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler was with Nikki Sixx the night of the Mötley Crüe bassist's near-fatal overdose that inspired one of the band's most popular songs, "Kickstart My Heart."Īdler says it was his own efforts to save Sixx's life that led to the song, not the efforts of the paramedics as Sixx remembers.
