Everyone knows that Tommy Lee partied hard. That is no secret. I had no idea that he has been sober for nearly a year now.
The rocker told Yahoo! Entertainment he’ll mark his one-year anniversary of being sober in about two weeks. “I’ve been sort of on and off for a long time,” he explained about his sobriety. “I go through these phases where I want to live a different life and f–k all the dumb s–t. Then I decide, ‘You know what, I don’t want to live like that anymore. I want to have fun and play and be f–ked up and stupid.’”
He wasn’t touring when he decided that he needed to stop drinking.
“I literally did nothing. I would just float around drink and f–king drink! And what’s crazy, I didn’t notice it until towards the end of it when I was like, ‘Oh, dude, I gotta stop. This is f–king insane,’” he explained. “I was drinking out of boredom. I would just wake up and build all vodka and a little eyedropper of cranberry or lemonade or something — literally straight vodka. I was drinking 2 gallons — not pints — gallons, the big handles, A DAY. That’s f–king crazy!”
“What’s important is I realized, ‘Whoa, dude, you’re drinking enough to like, you could probably die.’ And it wasn’t even phasing me,” he admitted. “I just became immune to it, and realized, ‘Whoa, this is a lot! This isn’t good.’ So it was time for me to pump the breaks and just get rid of it for a while.”
Here is the entire interview, if you want to check it out.
He has a new solo project titled Andro, Lee said that the record — set to drop Oct. 16 — is “pretty wild.” And in the meantime, he’s staying sober, at least for now. Motley Crue is expected to begin their stadium tour next summer.
