Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx marked 25 years sober on Thursday. He posted that sobriety gave him a life he never imagined. It gave him his family and taught him to be present. He said it taught him what it means to be a husband, father, friend and bandmate — not perfectly, but honestly.
Sixx wrote about his drug use in his 2007 book The Heroin Diaries. That project was released alongside the first Sixx:A.M. album, The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack. He said if his story helps even one person, every scar has a purpose.
“Twenty-five years later, I don’t celebrate perfection,” he wrote. “I celebrate progress. I celebrate love. I celebrate the people who walked beside me when I couldn’t walk alone.”
