Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash explained how he finally got off drugs in 2005 after relapsing.

After he left Guns N’ Roses in 1996, Slash admitted that it was a difficult time and that he’d become a “textbook” victim of the rock lifestyle when Velvet Revolver formed in 2002.

It was in 2005 that he finally gave up drugs. He told Belfast Live that he “really embraced” the rehab experience and was able to redirect his energy from “self-destruction … towards music.”

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