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Redemption Story of the Week: Nikki Sixx — The Overdose Wasn’t the Turning Point

Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe should be dead.

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Aug 21, 2026
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by Brandon Burley of The Redemption Project Podcast

In 1987, the Mötley Crüe bassist says he was pronounced clinically dead after a heroin overdose. He survived, left the hospital — and used again. The harder and more useful redemption story is what happened in the years after.

Nikki Sixx should have died in 1987.

That is not rock-and-roll mythology added…

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