Slash

by Slash

altered her pers...

already a superattentive, superassertive person who was always a f...

Adding speed of any kind to that equation accentuated those traits to the point that she became too...

Our interactions were getting increasi...

met up with my Oxy-connected friend and got more pills than I could handle.

to face the fact that that’s where I was heading.

(Chipping is a here and there relationship with smack.)

I came back to my home and as my relationship went further downhill,

self-medicating; I had a stash of Vicodin...

Perla and I split up abruptly; we were ap...

in my mind I wasn’t ever c...

all a saint, but I couldn’t handle whe...

that she needed to go...

“If I’m going in, take care of the kids” was the last thi...

WHILE PERLA WAS IN REHAB IT GOT bad—

nanny took care of the kids while I maintained a healthy Oxy habit.

bought about a three-mon...

I didn’t do it every day, eventually ...

n...

I kept it from the band like I kept it f...

But then eventually it crept in: I’d do a shot b...

I’d pursued the creative vibe with the band in a cl...

again…...

obvious to everyone that ...

said a word, at least for a while, and it says a lot about our c...

wasn’t even trying to hide my habit from a band of guys who’d had their share of problems and...

obnoxious about it that Matt even found blo...

my nodding out at rehearsal didn’t give it away, ...

Slash and his boys.

We kept on keeping on, not really going forward, just kind of writing and creatively treading water.

I knew what I was doing but I don’t think I’d realized how quickly I’d become the dark horse.

being backstage at that show: everyone would get quiet when I walked into the room. It was starting to be like that wherever I went.

the moment, he was listening carefully, trying to gauge where I was at.

I’m not going to tell you how to live your life

cop. I just want to know if you’re okay.

you’re not, I am here for you. But you have to be...

knew I was too fucked up to be around Perla,

had come home entirely clean and sober,

let alone be around our...

I would check myself in to rehab.

Perla and everyone else was worried about me.

was patient and tolerant and that is why we love each other the way we do.

I wasn’t...

almost ready to a...

my debauchery neede...

had planned to get some space from my wife a...

I cleared my head and did some work on figuring out why I liked to put myself in the same position over and over again.

Early in the morning of July 3, 2006, I checked into rehab.

I fully surre...

learned more about myself than I had ever thoug...