2017.01.26 - Good Day L.A. (KTTV) - Interview with Steven and Deanna Adler

Excerpts from Blabbermouth:
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Former Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler and his mother, Deanna Adler recently appeared on "Good Day LA", the morning television news and entertainment program airing on KTTV, a Fox owned-and-operated television station in Los Angeles, California. They discussed Deanna's long-awaited tell-all book, "Sweet Child Of Mine: How I Lost My Son To Guns N' Roses" (formerly "No Bed Of Roses"),which came out on January 24 via Monarch Publishing, LLC. [...]

Speaking about the difficult time his mother had controlling him during his childhood years, Steven told "Good Day LA": "She didn't lose me to rock and roll. She lost me because I was a drug addict, and I was a rebel, and anything that… Most kids are this way — if your parents tell you to do something, you do the complete opposite. So when she would tell to go to bed at nine o'clock, I'd go to bed, but I'd open my window and I'd go out and I'd go to the arcade and I'd hang out with my friends and with girls. I always did what I wanted to do."

He continued: "At the beginning, she was very helpful. She would do the band's laundry, she would bring us food… She was like a band mom. She was really wonderful and she was really great. And every morning, there was breakfast, she had lunch for us, every night [at] six o'clock there was dinner. So I had a great childhood. I just wanted to do what I wanted to do. I was twelve, thirteen years old, but I thought — like most kids do — you think you're twenty-one."

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