NIKKI SIXX Offers Update On Broadway Adaptation Of 'The Heroin Diaries'

MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx is in New York City “working on some final stuff” on the Broadway adaptation of his memoir, “The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star”. He says in a new video message (see video below): “It’s amazing. We’ve got some great partners that are involved, that are not only investors but people that have big voices that could talk about the opiate epidemic that’s happening right now all around the world.”

Sixx said in 2016 that most of the music in “The Heroin Diaries” will be from SIXX:A.M. but that there will also be “a couple of MÖTLEY CRÜE songs in there, because it is my life.” He explained: “It’s based on ‘The Heroin Diaries’ book, and the music plays to that, because it was the soundtrack to the book, but it’s a little wider scope than that. It will probably tell some version of your story, or my story. There’s a lot of issues within it, that if you broke down psychologically what ‘The Heroin Diaries’ is about, there’s a lot of issues with abandonment, family issues and survival. So it’s a really interesting play, and it’s actually quite hopeful.”

“The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star”, which was supposedly taken from actual journals Sixx kept in the late ’80s while in the grip of a near-fatal heroin addiction, was originally released in September 2007 via MTV Pocketbooks/Simon & Schuster and debuted at No. 7 on the New York Times Book Review non-fiction best-seller list.

A tenth-anniversary edition of “The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star”, featuring several new chapters and a new foreword, was made available last year.

The 400-plus-page book, written in part with journalist Ian Gittins, was previously described as “a brutally honest look at Sixx‘s hellish year, one which saw him overdose and be declared clinically dead at one point while MÖTLEY CRÜE toured behind its ‘Girls Girls Girls’ album.”

In a March 2010 interview with Brazil’s Dynamite magazine, Sixx‘s former MÖTLEY CRUE bandmate, singer John Corabi, questioned the authenticity of “The Heroin Diaries”, saying, “I love Nikki to death, and this is just my opinion… Everybody that I know that’s done heroin, they do heroin and they’re out. And I find it very hard to believe that somebody can do heroin and then have the foresight to write everything down. Everybody that read the book said it was great, though; it was a great book. It’s great reading, it’s a great book… More power to him, you know.”

In February 2008, former MÖTLEY CRÜE producer Tom Werman slammed “Heroin Diaries” as “totally deluded” and “stunningly inaccurate.” In a letter to the New York Times, Werman took issue with Sixx‘s assertion that the producer chatted on the phone during the recording of “Theatre Of Pain”, “Shout At The Devil” and “Girls Girls Girls” while Sixx did all the work. “If this distortion of reality is the result of Sixx‘s past heroin habit, then his diary is truly nothing more than a pipe dream, and the events to which this book refers may simply be the needle-induced fantasies of an attention-starved junkie,” Werman wrote.