I've found is in a completely different forum but it hit me like a train.
Apart from trust issues, bused child grown adult has really twisted point on things like consent, boundaries and all those things you are supposed to understand and respect as an adult. If you meet other adult, you usually don't consider that maybe this one in particular had grown up in an environment where basic human boundaries were repeatedly violated, where screaming "No!" was a waste of energy and where at the end no one came to help or stop it. People who grew up in such an environment, when they escape, they have no clue how abnormal it is. And the people in more healthy environment also basically don't know what's going on, that's how much unimaginable these essential things are broken in them.
Little spoken is sexual abuse in men, both the more alarming one, where the victim is a child and is abused by men (especially continuous abuse from a person child knows), and lesser visible sexual abuse by women, especially in young teenagers, but can happen at any age. Men are supposed to like sex from any woman any time, and it being the one thing all their lives direct to, thus "no" or other signs of them actually not liking, even actively refusing it, is not taken seriously. Another moment, and that man is supposed to fully understand the meaning of consent.
One thing I agree on is possible protecting Slash and Duff and what they had said during the split and the other thing is if he's willing to be eviscerated by media in such a private topic, and I bet they would pull out every dirty laundry ever and all the cliché and bad reputation ever. Like... people would shower Lewis Capaldi in sympathy for him fighting his disease and put Axl down for him...ehm...aged. People still overreact on Axl and thirty years after he had spoken about child abuse and mental health, is still fighting things like cancer or injury or any corporal disease taken as a heroism, but fighting your demons and upbringing and not being bright eyed and bushy tailed and playing well with others all the time considered your fault.
They say Axl never stands to defend himself... and I feel sorry for him more than ever now.
Axl is introspective and verbally gifted, and at the end, he found how to escape the patterns that would hurt him and people around him. If he put this together in a book, it could be a guide to many people. Be it victim of an abuse and neglect, or people who can recognize these patterns in otherwise likable person with idiosyncrasies. I've already learned a helluva lot through him and I'm forever grateful.