Millions offered for GN'R reunion

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Slash turned down millions of dollars to reform Guns N' Roses.

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Slash turned down millions of dollars to reform Guns N' Roses.

The guitarist – who now performs with Velvet Revolver - rejected the chance to earn the enormous sum because his "abrasive" relationship with frontman Axl Rose would make it unbearable.

He said: "I don’t think there’s ever a chance of a reunion. Things were so abrasive by the time I left, I've never thought, 'Oh, wouldn’t it be nice to get back together.' Because I know it wouldn't!

“I can’t remember exact numbers, but it’s excessive. Oh, you know - seven, eight digit kinds of things."

When asked by GQ magazine if they'd been offered hundreds of millions, he answered: "Yeah.

"I am a pretty realistic kind of person, and don’t expend energy worrying, 'What if?' If I hear great music we did together, I respect it for what it was and appreciate it. But I'm not like everyone else around the band who wants to somehow try to recreate it because there's so much money to be made."

Despite turning down the huge fortune, the 44-year-old rocker does think it "sad" the feuding musicians were unable to put their differences to one side.

He explained: "When we were on stage we were a real force together. But it got to a point off stage where it was impossible for us to even be in the same room together and create any music. So it's sad that something so good doesn't exist any more, even though we’re both still alive and on the same planet. But that’s all."

- Bang! Showbiz