Tommy Lee drank 2 gallons of vodka a day: Liver ‘on crutches’

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By Danica Daniel

Tommy Lee revealed that the “Good Times” might have been hazardous to his well being.

The Mötley Crüe drummer sat down with Invoice Maher, 67, on Monday and admitted that again within the good outdated days he had a penchant for consuming “2 gallons of vodka” a day.

In the course of the interview on Maher’s podcast, “Club Random,” he opened up about his wrestle with alcoholism.

“Alcohol’s such a f—king bizarre one,” Lee defined. “It’s straightforward to fall in love with, the best way it makes you’re feeling, the best way it makes you chill out, after which hastily you’re, like, ‘F–ok! I’m consuming 2 gallons of vodka a day?’ You’re making an attempt to kill your self now.”

When Maher questioned the 61-year-old rocker in utter disbelief, Lee doubled down, stating: “Two gallons a day, I swear to you, dude. I swear to God.”

Nonetheless in a state of shock, Maher mentioned, “I imply, your liver have to be fabricated from asbestos. For a way lengthy?”

“F—ok, man. For a very long time,” Lee replied about his vodka behavior, which he says he ended round 1990. “That’s what I’m saying. I pinch myself every day.

“I simply did, like, the full-body scan the place they do, say, head-to-toe every thing. And I can’t imagine that smoking, consuming, all of the dumb s—t or the enjoyable s—t that I’ve completed … dude, the physician was like, ‘You’re good,’” he continued. “I used to be like, ‘Is that my title on there? Is there some Japanese man in right here that you’ve his outcomes that you just’re studying from? As a result of I discover that f—ing unimaginable. That is unimaginable.’”

All jokes apart, Lee — who admitted to taking ecstasy and drugs with swigs of Cristal or pictures of Goldschläger all through his life within the 2001 Mötley Crüe memoir, “The Filth” — understands that his physique has taken a beating from his wild and loopy previous.

“Your liver is on crutches at that time. It’s barely functioning,” he mentioned, in the end explaining that the band determined it was time to scrub up their act. “[We said,] ‘OK, dude, somebody’s going to not get up one morning. Like, that is getting f—ing ridiculous, proper? As a band, we cease.’”

Lately, Lee is excessive on life and nothing else.

“I simply celebrated a yr of sobriety,” he advised Maher, though he mentioned these “celebrations” would possibly lead him to relapse. “I make it a yr, after which I’m so stoked that I made it a yr that I have a good time.” 

Maher replied, “That’s peak rock star on so many ranges.”