In an exclusive statement to PEOPLE, Brandon claims the fight was fueled by his father’s alleged addiction to alcohol. “She was, like, ‘Baby, I don’t think I’ve ever even seen anybody drink that much,'” he recalled. Tommy Lee is no stranger to partying hard, and the Motley Crue drummer revealed in a new interview that he was doing so as recently as about a year ago. After discussing some of the things he did in his youth, like Motley Crue challenging Guns N’ Roses to see who could outdrink the other, Lee spoke specifically about his alcohol intake during those early days. “…I just realised, ‘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.”
Speaking on “Club Random” in October 2023, Lee stated that he just completed a year of sobriety. In 1984, Motley Crüe made headlines for all the wrong reasons when a car driven by the band’s lead singer Vince Neil — who was later found to have been intoxicated — crashed into an oncoming car. The passengers of the other car sustained life-changing injuries, while the crash took the life of Hanoi Rocks drummer Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley, who was in the car with Neil. All jokes aside, Lee — who admitted to taking ecstasy and pills with swigs of Cristal or shots of Goldschläger throughout his life in the 2001 Mötley Crüe memoir, “The Dirt” — understands that his body has taken a beating from his wild and crazy past. During the interview on Maher’s podcast, “Club Random,” he opened up about his struggle with alcoholism. Furlan, who is Lee’s fourth wife, was a viral star on Vine and now has over 2 million Instagram followers.
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- “Two gallons a day. I swear to you, dude. I swear to God,” he said. “Gallons. The big handle. Two.”
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- “Alcohol’s such a fuckin weird one, because… Fuck! It’s just — 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, ‘Fuck! I’m drinking two gallons of vodka a day?’ This is not… You’re trying to kill yourself now,” said Lee.
- During an appearance on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories that aired Saturday night on ITV, the former Baywatch star, 50, discussed physical abuse she claimed to have endured from Tommy during their relationship.
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Tommy Lee On Alcohol Addiction: I Was Drinking Two Gallons Of Vodka A Day
Concern from Tommy’s wife Brittany caused him to address his behaviour, revealing that her worries made him realise he needed to head to rehab. He’s spent much of the last year working on his new album, which features a host of boldface names, from Post Malone to rising rappers Killvein, Push Push and his former “Supernova” castmate Lukas Rossi. The “lethal dose” of alcohol for a 132-pound adult is around one liter in spirits, according to Alcohol.org.nz. According to Lee, he managed to avoid any serious health problems despite his excessive alcohol use over a long period.
As he prepares to celebrate one year of sobriety, Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee reflects on the seriousness of his alcohol addiction. Tommy Lee’s excessive alcohol consumption is just one aspect of the hard-partying lifestyle that he and his fellow Motley Crüe rockers cultivated during their careers. Back in the 1980s, they were known as some of the most hedonistic musicians on the circuit. Lee said he had no lasting health effects from the drinking or the myriad other substances he’s abused over the years.
“I didn’t notice it until towards the end of it, when I was like, ‘Oh dude, I’ve got to stop,'” he said in a video interview with Yahoo! Entertainment, while also discussing his new solo album, “Andro,” which he has been working on in quarantine. “Think she’d find something new to discuss instead of rehashing old s— but I guess she has nothing else going on & needs attention Signed, ‘The abuser’ (who she texts every day & asks for me back),” Tommy tweeted in response, referring to Anderson. “I’m devastated at the events of the last several days that have been a result of my father’s alcoholism,” Brandon, 21, tells PEOPLE in a statement provided by his rep Teal Cannaday. Brandon celebrity with fetal alcohol syndrome Lee is speaking out about the physical altercation that took place between him and his father, rock legend Tommy Lee, on Monday night.
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Tommy Lee, the drummer for Mötley Crüe, revealed that before he got sober nearly a year ago, he was “drinking two gallons” of vodka on a daily basis. The musician said he checked into a rehab facility and has now been sober for one year, but still approaches sobriety as a day-by-day process. “I don’t know if it’s a forever thing, but for now, I’m not drinking vodka today,” he said. Despite frequently indulging in drugs and alcohol during his heyday — as it was depicted in the Netflix biopic The Dirt — the Motley Crue drummer just made the shocking revelation that he used to drink “two gallons of vodka a day” during his younger years. Luckily for Lee, the band as a whole became self aware of their various bouts with excess and decided to make a move toward something healthier as the ’80s came to an end. When Maher expressed his surprise at the amount Lee offered, the drummer reiterated, “Yeah. Two gallons of shit. I swear to you — dude, I swear to God.” He went on to add that this was his drinking habit for “a long time,” noting, “Your liver is on crutches at that point; it’s just barely functioning.”
These days, Lee — whose turbulent marriage to Pamela Anderson was recently documented in Pamela, A Love Story — is living a nearly unrecognizable life, enjoying his collection of Bonsai trees and spending time with his wife, Brittany Furlan. Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee has opened up about the extent of his alcohol addiction before his recent spell in a rehab facility. According to the rocker, he wasn’t touring at the time, simply enjoying doing nothing at home. The ex-husband of Pamela Anderson and Heather Locklear, who sobered up nearly four years ago, described his liver as being “on crutches” and “barely functioning” during this era.
“She was, like, ‘Baby, I don’t know, I don’t think I’ve ever even seen anybody drink that much. Like, you’re kind of scaring me.’ She was definitely concerned, and her concern obviously helped in my decision to just go get out of here.” Lee’s new album ‘Andro’ will be out on October 16, while Mötley Crüe’s reunion tour, alongside Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, has been pushed back to 2021. Lee said the behavior went on “for a long time,” adding that when he and bandmate Nikki Sixx ran out of cocaine, they would shoot Jack Daniels with a syringe.
Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee was drinking gallons of vodka every day last year — so much that his new bride was afraid she’d wake up to find him dead. It would be reasonable to assume that Tommy Lee won’t be in the best state of health after a lifetime of hedonistic rockstar antics. But on the contrary, the drummer has told numerous outlets including Yahoo! Entertainment that in recent years he has been given a clean bill of health, and he is surprised to have made it through his decades of excess in one piece. To their credit, Motley Crüe has not shied away from the darker aspects of their time as rockstars, nor the addiction that plagued their careers. The death of Dingley is recounted in the band’s memoir, “The Dirt,” an unflinching portrait of the band’s excesses, particularly their alcohol and drug use. As Lee discussed on “Steve-O’s Wild Ride” (via YouTube) the band even used to compete with other rockers to see how messed up they could get, with Lee saying some of the members of Guns N’ Roses once tried to “outdrink” them, but Lee said he and Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx had the last laugh in that situation.
