Jan Jaedike of Germany's Rock Hard magazine asked Slash if he had read the book where Stanley wrote that he had told him to "Go f*** yourself!" and while Slash says he has not read the book he confirmed the KISS star's claim, saying, "More or less yeah," according to BraveWords who transcribed the video interview.

Slash went on to explain where the rift had originated, "In essence, what happened was� I don't wanna bring it all up again� But he had come around to produce Guns N' Roses way back in the day, before we actually made the first record. And at some point, we decided we didn't� We never, actually, were interested in working with him. But we sort of had him come around because he was (drummer) Steven Adler's hero.

"Anyway, and so, at that time, I'd done an interview for the Calendar in the LA Times, and I'd said something derogatory about him. And then, months later, realized that he had an arrangement with B.C. Rich, and I was looking to try and get a guitar to record the Appetite record, and asked him if he would hook me up with some B.C. Riches. And he said something along the lines of, 'You shouldn't air your dirty laundry in public,' having to do with him. 'So, no, I won't help you.' And I was, like, 'OK.' And we didn't speak for years after that.

"It was only until roughly 2006 that we got reacquainted when I was doing the KISS Rock Honors for VH1 and we sort of let bygones be bygones. And so we're more or less cool now."