The previous Mötley Crüe guitar player had fatal mold spreading out throughout his Malibu home in the early 2000s
Former Mötley Crüe guitar player Mick Mars is assessing a challenging duration he dealt with in the early 2000s while the band was on hiatus and he was residing in a mold-infested home.
Mars, who left the rock group in 2022, opened up to Rolling Stone about striking rock bottom quickly after the Sept. 11 fear attacks as the band took a break and he “pulled away deep” into his Malibu home.
The rocker, 72, said he consumed exceedingly and began taking Oxycontin, Vicodin and Lortab as fatal mold started spreading out, unbeknownst to him, through his house. Mars said he didn’t endeavor outdoors frequently, as he wasn’t on trip and wasn’t taping.
“I utilized to see huge reptile aliens at the end of my bed,” he said. “And little hairy aliens. At night, cat individuals utilized to come in, the kind my mom utilized to alert me may come and take my breath. Luckily, I found out that I was hallucinating. Other individuals never ever do, and end up leaping out of windows.”
Mars, whose genuine name is Robert Alan Deal, ultimately vacated the mold-infested home quickly prior to the band’s 2005 reunion trip, and likewise went through hip-replacement surgical treatment.
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For a time, he dealt with bandmate Nikki Sixx, who informed Rolling Stone that he took Mars to the physician and “spoon-fed” him due to the fact that Mars “was so f—ed up.”
Though Mars remains in a much better location now — he wed Seraina Schönenberger in 2013 — he informed the outlet that he just anticipates “to live another 7 or 8 years.”
“I’m old enough, man. I’m not going to live to be 85 or 90, I just have a feeling. I don’t want to, either,” he said. “My brain doesn’t want this ugly-ass body that’s all f—-ed up to keep going. I wish I could just take the information out of my brain, put it on a chip and into somebody else, or a robot. There’s still a lot of stuff going on up there.”
The rocker is currently locked in a legal battle with his former band, as he filed suit in April accusing them of kicking him out of the group in October after he said he could no longer tour due to illness.
Mars said that his “horrifically debilitating” ankylosing spondylitis diagnosis made it impossible for him to tour, but he still wanted to perform and record with Mötley Crüe. Still, he alleged that band members Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee held an emergency shareholders meeting to “throw Mars out of the band, fire him as a director of the corporation, fire him as an officer of the corporation and take away his shares of the corporation.”
When he didn’t “go away quietly,” they allegedly proceeded to fire him from six additional band corporations and LLCs, where each member splits the profits evenly (Reps for Mars and the band did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment at the time).
“When they wanted to get high and f— everything up, I covered for them,” Mars informed Rolling Stone. “Now they’re attempting to take my tradition away, my part of Mötley Crüe, my ownership of the name, the brand name. How can you fire Mr. Heinz from Heinz catsup? He owns it. Frank Sinatra’s or Jimi Hendrix’s tradition goes on permanently, and their beneficiaries continue to make money from it. They’re attempting to take that far from me. I’m not going to let them.”
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