Duff McKagan was witness to tragic actor’s last night

Former GUNS N’ ROSES rocker DUFF McKAGAN has hinted he realised tragic actor PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN needed help on the night he died, and considered coming to the star’s aid.
In his new book, How to Be a Man (And Other Illusions), McKagan refuses to name the actor he ran into several times in New York over a February weekend in 2014, but it seems clear he’s talking about The Hunger Games star, who died of combined drug intoxication.
In an extract from the book published by The Village Voice, the rock star reveals he and Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell were in New York City and both reforming addicts contemplated taking their unnamed fellow celebrity under their wing.
McKagan writes, “(We said), ‘Should we offer our friendship and a safe place?'”
He recalls, “We ran smack-dab into the actor again. On the street. Waiting. Again… We thought that maybe he was on a last run before getting clean. Surely, if we saw him again in the morning, we’d have to say something: ‘Bro, c’mon. We’ve been there. Come on out of the cold. We understand’.”
Instead, McKagan says he and Cantrell were awakened the next day to find an ambulance, police and a crowd of media and fans outside.
Hoffman, 46, died on 2 February, 2014.
The rocker adds, “Out of respect for his children and our joint association with a ‘fraternity’, I don’t feel comfortable calling him out by name.”