Tommy Lee came close to death after his parachute failed to open during a sky dive.

The Motley Crue drummer said: "I did a tandem jump and was strapped to the instructor. We had a 12 second freefall and then all of a sudden the guy pulls the shoot and says, 's**t, we've got line snag.'"

He added to Britain's Radio 1: "The parachute wouldn't open and we're falling to earth and I'm like 'Oh my God'. Then I reached a point of complete calm and was thinking: 'Okay, this is how I'm going out. It'll be in the papers tomorrow. Then the chute opened and I was like, 'thank you, thank you, thank you'."

The star, who was previously married to 'Baywatch' babe Pamela Anderson, said the thrilling sensation was erotic.

He confessed: "That was better than sex."

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