Sorry, but I can’t stop laughing about Axl Rose getting smacked at a nightclub by Tommy Hilfiger.
The scuffle reportedly started after the Guns N’ Roses front man moved the drink of Hilfiger’s girlfriend, Dee Ocleppo.
“I moved his girlfriend’s drink so it wouldn’t spill,” Rose told the Los Angeles radio station KROQ on Friday. “It was the most surreal thing, I think, that’s ever happened to me in my life.”
According to the 44-year-old singer, Hilfiger, 55, smacked him in the arm and told him to put the drink back.
“He just kept smacking me,” Rose said.
It sounds like, from the coverage at the Post (and you HAVE to go to the main page and look at the cover), that Axl just sort of stood there going WTF? and didn’t retaliate, and that Hilfiger’s bodyguard had to pull him off the singer:
A densely packed crowd of celebs – including Lenny Kravitz and Kid Rock – had ringside seats to the battle.
The feisty fashionista was acting all gangsta, hitting Axl with a flurry of punches, one that landed under Rose’s eye.
“First [Axl and Tommy] were sitting. Then they were pulling on each other . . . It got so out of control,” said a shocked witness.
As the punch-up escalated, Hilfiger introduced Rose to some “November Pain” with a blow to the cheek. Club guards quickly tried to separate the men.
“A bunch of security ran over – but Tommy would not back down. He was just out to take him down,” the witness said.
And this just made me guffaw:
“Kid Rock got trampled by people running over. It was unbelievable.”
Axl retained his sense of humor about it when he performed later, dedicating “You’re Crazy” to “my good friend Tommy Hilfiger.”