Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler has been hospitalised. Police were called to his house after it was claimed that someone had “stabbed themselves”.
According to TMZ, Steven is being treated for the wounds, which are thought to be “non-life threatening”, and no one else was hurt in the incident.
Steven is best known as the former drummer and a songwriter in the original five of Guns N’ Roses, along with Duff McKagan, Izzy Stradlin, Slash and Axl Rose.
He was kicked out of the band in 1990 due to his drug use, which went against his contract. Speaking about his struggle with depression after leaving the band back in 2011, he told Rukus magazine:
“I was very miserable. Everything I’d worked my whole life for had been taken away from me. And it was the people I’d worked with that had turned on me.
I didn’t know what to do. From having hundreds of friends, to getting kicked out of the band by my best friend… It left me with no-one to turn to.”
He continued: “I was very sad and lonely. My wife left me, and I didn’t blame her. It’s hard to watch someone you love trying to kill themselves.
That’s what I was doing.” He has since been in recovery and appeared in em>Celebrity Rehab. The 54-year-old was due to perform a gig at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas on 12 July, and it has yet to be confirmed whether the show will be going ahead.
Fans were quick to wish him a speedy recovery, with one writing: “Get well, Steven Adler,” while another added: “I hope your recovery goes well #stevenadler.”
Mariah Carey has said her mother and sister died on the same day over the weekend.
The Grammy-winning singer, 55, told People magazine that her mother Patricia and her sister Alison respectively, died in a “tragic turn of events”.
It is not yet clear what caused their deaths.
She told the magazine in a statement: “My heart is broken that I’ve lost my mother this past weekend,” Carey said in a statement to People magazine.
“Sadly, in a tragic turn of events, my sister lost her life on the same day.
“I feel blessed that I was able to spend the last week with my mom before she passed.
“I appreciate everyone’s love and support and respect for my privacy during this impossible time.”
The Hero singer’s mother, who had Mariah, Alison and their brother Morgan with Alfred Roy Carey, was a Juilliard-trained opera singer and vocal coach.
The couple divorced when the singer was three years old.
She said in her 2020 memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey: “Like many aspects of my life, my journey with my mother has been full of contradictions and competing realities. It’s never been only black-and-white — it’s been a whole rainbow of emotions.
“Our relationship is a prickly rope of pride, pain, shame, gratitude, jealousy, admiration and disappointment,” continued Mariah in the book. “A complicated love tethers my heart to my mother’s.”
In her memoir she also said it was “emotionally and physically safer for me not to have any contact” with Alison or her brother.
Prince Harry reportedly sold a pair of handmade hunting rifles, following his decision to quit bloodsports, allegedly to please his wife Meghan Markle. The father-of-one, 39, was previously an enthusiastic hunter, having been photographed with a water buffalo he had killed in 2005.
However, it’s believed that animal-loving Meghan, 43, influenced his decision to step away from bloodsports, leading to the sale of the rifles, estimated to be worth £50,000, in a private deal back in 2020.
This occurred before the couple left the UK for Canada, and subsequently moved to Los Angeles. The Purdey firearms were purchased by an anonymous buyer, whose friend told The Sun:
“He bought them because he wanted them, not because they belonged to Harry, but he was quite chuffed when he found out.” They added:
“They are beautiful examples and he’s very pleased with them but he’s not the sort of person who wants to boast about the royal connection.”
The same year, conservationist Dr Jane Goodall told Radio Times that she believed Prince Harry would stop hunting because Meghan doesn’t approve.
In December 2018, during the couple’s first Christmas together, rumours circulated that Prince Harry would abstain from a traditional Boxing Day hunt, which palace sources dismissed as ‘completely untrue’, reports the Mirror.
