United Kingdom, July 23 -- Tommy Lee worked as an escort before finding success with Motley Crue.

The 63-year-old drummer has revealed that he turned to escort work during his younger years, because he was so desperate for money at the time.

He told the Armchair Expert podcast: "Very beginning when we all had moved into an apartment together, and then we meet this lady who's the madame. She was a few years older than us, and that's where we met, and then started talking. She's like, 'I got work for you guys.'"

Tommy was living with bandmates Nikki Sixx and Vince Neil at the time and each of them received just "$20 a week" from their manager.

The drummer said: "Each guy got $20 a week. We saw some big numbers, and we were like, 'OK, f*...