Mötley Crüe's Tommy Lee is shocked that his rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle hasn't completely destroyed his body. When speaking with Bill Maher on the Club Random podcast, the drummer confessed that he used to drink 2 gallons of vodka per day.
Bill Maher didn't believe him, asking, "Are you sure?" Tommy replied with: "Yeah, you can ask my wife." The musician shared that he "pinches [himself] on a daily basis" because he's still relatively healthy despite his alcoholism and drug use.
Tommy was shocked to find out that everything was fine after a recent doctor's visit. “I just did, like, the full-body scan where they do, say, head-to-toe everything. And I can’t believe that smoking, drinking, all the dumb [expletive] or the fun [expletive] that I’ve done … dude, the doctor was like, ‘You’re good,’” Tommy said.
“I was like, 'Is that my name on there? Is there some Japanese guy in here that you have his results that you’re reading from? Because I find that [expletive] impossible. This is impossible,'" Tommy continued.
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He stopped partying and drinking so much around 1990. Tommy also told Bill that he has now been sober for a year. “I just celebrated a year of sobriety," he said, also admitting that "celebrating" sobriety comes with its own challenges.
“I make it a year, and then I’m so stoked that I made it a year that I celebrate," Tommy admitted. But he also recognizes how easy it can be to have a problematic relationship with alcohol. Drinking starts out being fun but then can quickly turn into a toxic habit, he explained.
"Alcohol’s such a [expletive] weird one. It’s easy to fall in love with, the way it makes you feel, the way it makes you relax, and then all of a sudden you’re, like, ‘[Expletive]! I’m drinking 2 gallons of vodka a day?’ You’re trying to kill yourself now," Tommy said.
In 2020, Tommy spoke to Yahoo News about his past attempts at sobriety. He spoke about a time when he had been sober for years but then decided that he wanted to have fun, which later got out of hand.
At a certain point, he was drinking so much that his wife was concerned, prompting him to seek help. "I just realized, ‘Whoa dude, you're drinking enough to like, you could probably die.’ And it wasn't even fazing me. … I just became sort of immune to it," he said at the time.
"I was drinking just out of boredom. I would just wake up and be just building [a glass with] just all vodka and just a little eyedropper of cranberry or lemonade. I was drinking 2 gallons — not pints, not quarts, but gallons, the big-handles — a day," he explained at the time.
On the podcast, he explained that when it gets that bad, "your liver is on crutches at that point. It’s barely functioning." At a certain point, the band realized that it was a problem and they needed to stop.
“[We thought], ‘OK, dude, someone’s going to not wake up one morning. Like, this is getting [expletive] ridiculous, right? As a band, we stop,’” he said.
