Guns N’ Roses’ former manager has shed some new light on the band’s breakup, claiming that it all boils down to Michael Jackson, according to Gigwise.

Doug Goldstein recently told Rolling Stone Brazil that Axl Rose was offended when Slash played a tribute concert with Michael Jackson. “I told him not to do it because Axl was molested by his father when he was two and he believed the charges against Michael Jackson,” Goldstein said.

“So I asked Slash, ‘How much are you receiving?’… and he said, ‘I’ll just receive a big screen television.’ When Axl found out Slash was going to play with Michael Jackson and that the payment was a big screen TV, he was devastated,” Goldstein continued. “He thought Slash would support him and be against all abuse. From Axl’s point of view, that was the only problem. He could ignore the drugs and the alcohol, but never the child abuse.”

Since then, Slash has never, according to Goldstein, apologised for collaborating with Jackson. Goldstein says that if the band were to ever reconcile, that it would start with an apology. “Slash would have to apologize for the episode with Michael Jackson,” he shared. “And I really believe that for how much I love the band, I’d be the manager to reunite them, I don’t think anyone else could do it.”

Slash is currently on a US tour.