Talking to Full in Bloom, singer John Corabi speaks about his time on Motley Crue (1992-1996), where he also mentioned how was he treated by the other band members during that time.
Corabi said:
“Again, this got me into a disagreement with Nikki [Sixx]. Somebody asked me one time what I thought of the ‘Her*in Diaries,’ and I said, ‘Oh man, it’s a great book.’
“I was in Brazil, and the interviewer said, ‘Do you think it was colored?’ And I said, ‘Yes.’ And he goes, ‘Why?’ And I said, ‘Because ‘The Dirt’ was colored as well.’ He was like, ‘What do you mean?’
“I was like, ‘OK, just for example…’ And I was kidding with him, but I went, ‘There’s a part in there where it says I went back to this apartment and I had an o*gy with five girls.’
“And I was kidding with him, I said, ‘In actuality, it was only four.’ Truthfully, it was only one girl, but they had to make me seem bigger than life and whatever. It was colored…
“You know, this is the thing that I got into trouble with Nikki, and I really meant no disrespect because it’s a great book. If you look at it as a book, it’s a great book.
“Nikki took offense to the fact that the guy that was interviewing me – he kept asking me more questions, and he asked me about the coloring, and I said, ‘Of course…’
“Like, name me a f*cking movie, a true-story movie that isn’t beefed up a little bit to make it more interesting for the viewers.
“You tell a story, and you tell it to the next guy, and he tells it to the next guy, it goes around through 15 people, and by the time John Corabi’s in a hotel room in Japan, he’s f*cking five women.
“By the time he gets to the last guy, I was with 35 women, and I killed three of them. So it’s colored. Everybody colors everything.
“What Nikki took offense to was, the guy said, ‘Do you believe this to be factual?’
“And I said, ‘I don’t know, most of the people that I’ve dealt with that did her*in didn’t have the foresight to bring a diary with them, and the ones that did write their escapades couldn’t remember what they did the day before.’
“But I followed it with, ‘Maybe Nikki’s different, I don’t know.’ It’s probably colored a little bit to make it more interesting to the reader.”
When asked whether he received any royalty from Motley Crue ‘The Dirt’ movie, John said:
“Yeah, but I don’t get it until 2087. Honestly, I didn’t ask for anything, I didn’t take anything, and that whole story is also in my book. I dive into a lot of this sh*t way deeper.
“I’ve got my issues with Motley Crue, and they’re never going to go away, but honestly, I don’t think about them. The only time I talk about it is because someone asked.
“Again, I’m proud of everything that I’ve done, I have no regrets about anything that I’ve done, I’m an open book. What you see is what you get.
“You want an answer? Ask me a question, I’m going to give you the answer, but at the end of the day, I don’t even really think about them.
“As far as the book goes, if anybody wants to see where I’m at, hopefully when my book comes out, ‘Horseshoes and Hand Grenades,’ I dive into everything much deeper.
“And again, I’m not bitter, it just goes back and it gives you what my state of mind was all through all of this sh*t.
“But, I didn’t ask them for anything, they called me and asked me to do something for them, I was like, ‘Yeah, OK, sure.'”
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Horseshoes and hand grenades? I pray that is a nod to The Loveless and their great song by that title!!