Ex-Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler rushed to hospital after stabbing himself at home
Ex-Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler rushed to hospital after stabbing himself at home
Say it isn’t so! TMZ has reported that former Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler was rushed to a hospital after stabbing himself at home.
Excerpts from the TMZ article are as follows:
“Law enforcement sources tell TMZ someone at Adler’s L.A. home called 911 shortly after 6:30 Thursday night to report someone had stabbed themselves. We’re told when cops and paramedics arrived, they discovered it was Adler who had suffered a stab wound to his stomach.
Our sources say Adler was taken to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries. We’re told no one else is suspected to have been involved in the incident.”
You can read the rest of the article at TMZ‘s website.
Wikipedia states the following in part about Adler‘s drug issues (with slight edits):
“On May 5, 1995, Adler was arrested at his home in Calabasas on a felony charge of heroin possession.
In 1996, Adler suffered a stroke and was briefly comatose after taking a particularly potent speedball—a cocktail of heroin and cocaine used intravenously—which caused a temporary paralysis of the left side of his face, resulting in a speech impediment. The following year, he pleaded no contest to disturbing the peace in relation to a domestic violence charge involving a woman with whom he had been living; he was sentenced to four days in jail, three years’ probation, and mandatory drug counseling.
In June 1998, Adler joined the newly reformed hard rock band BulletBoys, along with future Guns N’ Roses guitarist DJ Ashba. The group recorded an album and announced a US summer tour with Faster Pussycat, Bang Tango and Enuff Z’nuff. However, Adler‘s return to music was cut short the following September, when he pleaded no contest to two counts of battery stemming from attacks on two other women in separate domestic violence incidents. He was sentenced to a 150-day term in prison and three years’ probation, with the condition of undergoing a year of domestic violence counseling and a ban on using illegal drugs.”