In between the sadness, there are some moments of hilarity. Such as Sept. 27, 1987. It was 3:30 a.m. in a Dallas hotel. Two hot girls knock on Sixx’s door. They wanted to repeat the events of the previous evening. Sixx was too ill, strung out on heroin and whatever else he put into his body that week, and turned them down. But he gave them back their shoes and their underwear. “Thanks, but these aren’t my panties,” one girl said.

Sixx then writes, “and her girlfriend said they weren’t hers either.