New York- THE reason Dave Navarro fought to stop publication of his new book for a few years is obvious after a glimpse at its shocking portrait of the drug-fueled life he led.
As PAGE SIX reported last week, the Jane's Addiction guitarist, who's married to Carmen Electra, feuded with publisher Judith Regan for two years before finally allowing his own story, "Don't Try This at Home," to come out.
Navarro's co-author, Neil Strauss, writes that he realized Navarro, who was heavily addicted to drugs (and prostitutes) at the time, never thought he'd still be alive when the book was published.
Strauss recounts several raunchy tales from the year he spent hanging out with the rocker. At a party at the Playboy mansion in 1998, Navarro picked up a Playboy Playmate and a Penthouse Pet.
"The Playmate was an argumentative model . . . The drop-dead gorgeous Pet, renamed 'Where's My Purse?' after misplacing her handbag eight times that night, went on to earn herself the honor of being quite possibly the stupidest woman ever to sleep with [Marilyn Manson bassist] Twiggy [Ramirez]. And that says a lot."
On another occasion, Navarro had a date with a woman who came to his house before they went out for the evening. The doorbell rang soon after she arrived; she answered it to find "a very dolled-up prostitute with stiletto heels and a garter belt hanging from the bottom of her skirt," Strauss writes.
"The woman, a former Heidi Fleiss escort, held a bag full of hooker clothes in one hand and doggie biscuits in the other." Then "she proceeded to sit on the couch, pull a crack pipe out of her purse and light it."
Strauss also recounts the night "Manson and Dave spent two hours manipulating a photograph of a scantily clad Courtney Love lying sprawled outside Trent Reznor's hotel room so that they [could] blow up a picture of her [privates] to use as an album cover for Dave's demos."
Then there was the time Leif Garrett came over at 6:30 a.m. to fix a curtain rod in exchange for drugs; the night Rose McGowan "pick[ed] up what she thought was a stack of poker chips only to be told by fiancé Marilyn Manson that it was a [sex toy] a prostitute had given Navarro"; and the time Navarro and Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx ran out of drugs, so they shot up Jack Daniels instead.
