Goodbye, Guns N' Roses by Art Tavana;

Author:Art Tavana;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ECW Press Ltd
Published: 2020-01-13T00:00:00+00:00

Lily-like, white as snow,

She hardly knew

She was a woman, so

Sweetly she grew.

In their Las Vegas wedding photo, Axl looks like someone who’s just entered the Witness Protection Program. He’s holding a cigarette with dark sunglasses hiding his gimlet eyes. She’s smiling with a pink corsage gripped tightly between her hands. It looks like a prom photo taken before a crime occurs. The saccharine of “Sweet Child” becomes bitter once you investigate its ingredients. Erin Everly wasn’t just Axl’s muse, she was also his victim. In 2015, Erin Everly posted her wedding photo on Instagram with the following caption:

“25 years ago today. And to this day is the only picture I have of a wedding day. My one and only wedding picture. Thank you for that Mr. Rose.”

“The last time I talked to her,” says one source, “She told me that she had come to accept her responsibility in the failure of their marriage. She still loves him very much.”

But what if Erin Everly was a much more complicated figure than merely a “sweet child” who was tormented by a “bad boy”? What if she were more like Shannen Doherty, the Hollywood “bad girl” who allegedly threatened to shoot her boyfriend with a pistol, before trying run him over with a BMW? She may have been a “young woman on the verge of spinning out of control,” as Doherty was described in People on June 14, 1993. What if Erin was not Sandy as a milkshake schoolgirl in the beginning of Grease (1978), but Sandy as a snarling dominatrix in the last scene of Grease?

There’s a story in Andy McCoy’s 2009 autobiography, Sheriff McCoy: Outlaw Legend of Hanoi Rocks, where Erin is depicted as swerving her Jeep through the Hollywood Hills in an effort to crash it. “She’d tried to crash her car off Mulholland Drive at a spot where there’s a 150-yard drop down the cliff,” he writes. “It’s a perfect spot if you want to commit vehicular suicide.” McCoy would describe Erin as an attention-needy socialite who had begun to abuse prescription painkillers like Valium, and seemed capable, according to McCoy, of fabricating abuse stories. Erin, according to McCoy, would often come to his home and visit his girlfriend at the time, Angela Nicoletti, and according to McCoy, Erin would regularly threaten self-harm. “Angela told me she thought Erin was disturbed enough to rip off the ring herself, just so she could blame Axl and get attention,” writes McCoy. The “ring” McCoy is referring to is a nipple ring.

What if Erin were the quintessential jezebel? What if Erin fabricated the cause of one of her 1990 hospitalizations? According to People, she was hospitalized twice that year: once when Axl struck her and a second time, when she miscarried. This would have placed her in a hospital bed in the summer of 1990 and once more at the end of the year (according to her version of events). But what if there were a third visit that spring?

According to McCoy,

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