you and slash were “best friends” since you too met in the studio. You were younger than him, you were about 16 and he was 23. You this wasn't anywhere near okay but, what were you supposed to do? He was there and he cared. So it just kinda happened you hung onto him like a clingy toddler. You were always under him. He taught you how to play the guitar or how certain musical things worked. However, the rest of the band were iffy in the beginning of course, you were only 16 but that quickly melted away as you showed your importance to them. You were constantly crawling into one of their laps calming them down or fixing a riff.