LOS ANGELES (CelebrityAccess) – Former Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler has reportedly been hospitalized following a self-inflicted stab wound to the stomach.
TMZ is reporting that paramedics were called to Adler’s Los Angeles home around 6:30 p.m. on Thursday (June 27) at which time he was transported to a local hospital. While the circumstances surrounding Adler’s injury are unclear, it is not believed to be life-threatening.
Adler was an original member Guns N’ Roses alongside Axl Rose, Slash, and Izzy Stradlin. He appeared on all of the band’s albums from 1986’s Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide through 1990’s Civil War, including their seminal 1987 release Appetite For Destruction. In 1990, Adler was fired from GNR due to struggles with drugs and alcohol.
Adler was inducted with Guns N’ Roses into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. He did not participate in the band’s 2017-2018 reunion tour.
