NIKKI SIXX Comments On Passing Of Addiction Specialist BOB TIMMONS

MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx has issued the following statement in regards to the recent passing of Santa Monica-based addiction specialist Bob Timmons:

"A dear friend, Bob Timmons, not only of mine but countless others recently passed on. He saved not only my life, but so many others. He single-handedly affected millions of people's lives. I miss him dearly already. We spoke quite a bit in the last year. One of the kindest things I've heard in my life was when he told me he was proud of me for giving back through 'The Heroin Diaries' and for staying sober during hard times. To hear that from such a great man warmed my heart and I felt like what it must have felt like if my own father had given me such praise. You helped us all see how to live free from addiction, and I can't say it loud enough, THANK YOU... THANK YOU... Bob, I know you're watching, and we all hope to do you proud. Thank you for sharing your life with us..."

Nikki Sixx's book, "The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star", debuted at #7 on The New York Times Book Review non-fiction best-seller list.

Twenty-five percent of the book's profits will be donated to Running Wild In The Night — Sixx's fundraising initiative for Covenant House California, which helps keep runaway, abused and abandoned youth off the streets.

While having all the rock star riches and luxuries, Sixx told Sun Media that he also had a $5,000 a day drug habit, one that is vividly chronicled in "The Heroin Diaries".

"That's how I communicated," Sixx said. "I had to or I would go crazy and even as I was going crazy I had to write it down to see if what I was seeing and hearing and feeling was real.

"Cocaine was really the biggest downfall. Heroin you can maintain, sadly, but cocaine you start getting into the amounts of freebasing and mainlining you go into a whole other world of insanity."

The 400-plus page book, written in part with journalist Ian Gittins, is 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. The book also features recent interviews Gittins did with band mates, friends and family members, interviews Sixx says pull no punches.

"They would say things like, 'He was undependable, he was a bit of a dictator when it came to the music but I love Nikki,' " he says. "I'm like, 'That's a fucking waste of my time!' Let's get into the meat of it and get into it. Ian got in there and really pulled out what was going on and peeling away all the stuff that's going on now."