Now that Guns ‘N Roses has finally released Chinese Democracy and Dr. Pepper has finally tried to distribute all those free sodas, it’s time for all the retrospectives about the band and its troubled founder/current only original member, Axl Rose. Journalist Mick Wall, who wrote extensively about the band back when they were still awesome, recently spoke to Wired about some of Axl’s craziest acts over the years, including this story about one of Axl’s very beleaguered assistants:
He does believe in some crazy stuff — past lives, crystals — don’t get me wrong, I believe in karma, I believe that there is a world beyond the five senses, I do believe in energies you can give out, positive and negative, but Axl goes beyond that. He told Erin [Everly, his ex-wife] that in a previous life they’d lived as native Americans on an Indian camp. There was a personal assistant that his guru told him had lived 50 thousand previous lives in which he tried to kill him [Axl], so he fired her. I mean he’s into some really crazy shit. It wouldn’t surprise me if there was an insane reason why those days are chosen.