How The Dirt Ignored Motley Crue's True Story

May 2024 ยท 2 minute read

The movie The Dirt is, of course, based on the book by the same name, and this dual attack of filthy hard rock stories is arguably the most important reason the world is still interested in Motley Crue instead of, say, Poison or Ratt. Wouldn't it be pretty weird if all that were built on a lie? Not that we're saying it was. In fact, we're not even saying that some of it was. We don't need to, because as Loudwire reports, Nikki Sixx has said it himself.

In 2019, Sixx was in hot water over a story in The Dirt (the book) where he described a party that culminated in him and Tommy Lee committing sexual assault on an unwary woman by fooling her into switching partners mid-act. The bass player defended himself by saying he "does not recall" the story beyond reading it, and also admits that he doesn't remember a lot of his interviews for the book. Sixx says this is because the interviews were conducted in 2000, a year before he went into rehab, and incidentally a year when he was going through a particularly rough patch with his drug and alcohol intake.

Will we ever know? It's one of those times where you kind of hope the person was actually lying, you know?

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