Was Slash’s Wife A Successful Stalker? Not Exactly

Ex-Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash met his wife Perla Hudson in Las Vegas 18 years ago. That’s an old story. But Hudson fleshed out some details for me while she was at Terry Fator’s opening show at the Mirage this weekend.

Was she a successful stalker?

“I wasn’t necessarily a stalker. I had this stalker intention when I came here. But it turned out differently, because he came after me. It worked out. So he called me a stalker. That’s cool. Then he turned into a stalker, too.”

Here’s what happened.

She saw a photo of him. She and a girlfriend drove to Vegas to see GNR at the Thomas & Mack Center. She used pull to get backstage.

“I had a thing for him. I’m Cuban and I listen to salsa music. I really didn’t know the rock and roll world, but I saw a picture of him, and I thought, ‘There’s something about this guy.’ So I come here, of course. Our paths cross …”

They met, but nothing happened backstage. Then she took off to the Mirage, and they bumped into each other in front of the elevators.

“And we had a wonderful night of loving at the Mirage, which I intend to have again tonight 18 years later.”

They “took a break” after the first flush, actually. Then “reconnected” 12 years ago. Now they’re got two kids.

“We’re a happy rock and roll family,” she says.

In my Tuesday column, she and Slash will talk about how they almost moved here. He says he couldn’t handle the temptations of vices. But Hudson says she’d love to live here, although ...

“I’d be a raging, gambling alcoholic if I did,” she says and laughs. “He’s a lot stronger than I am” in the willpower department.