


He gave police a detailed account of the Predator attack: "I was still high enough that I told the story without a shred of self-consciousness." Naked and afraid, Slash proceeded to use a maid as a "human shield," ran through the hotel lobby and hid behind a lawnmower as his ultimate shelter. In an attempt to combat the creatures, Slash punched through a glass door, later jumping through it to flee his room. After a heroin/cocaine bender, Slash recalls "Predators" with "rubbery-looking dreadlocks" chasing after him with machine guns and harpoons. Hallucinations ensued, resulting in a bloody, naked run through an Arizona golf resort. "It turned out to be the start of a long and nightmarish obsession with heroin that lasted from 1989 through 1991," the guitarist says in his autobiography.

With nothing to keep him busy but a bottle of Jack Daniels, Slash's drug problems worsened. After their 1989 world tour, G N' R took a hiatus in Los Angeles.
