DM: I saw my footage and I said I didn't want to be in it. Two days before the movie, if you remember, we had just been attacked in N.Y. and they were still pulling dead people out of the buildings. [I hung out with Dave a few days after when Megadeth played the House of Blues in Los Angeles when he first told me of this]. That September 13th I turned 40, I was stuck in Vancouver...on the 11th I was in Seattle when I heard the towers' had been hit, we canceled our show and drove into Canada and did that show. On the 13th I was supposed to fly home but all the flights were grounded. So I have to drive all the way from Canada down to San Francisco while Lars is calling up saying "hey, let's f**kin' get together man". And I'm thinking to myself, "My God, my life has come to this...I've turned 40 and I'm with Lars." And he's telling me, "hey, we got this counselor here and we'd like to kind of work through some things in the past and kind of make it right." And I'm thinking, that's fine, I've been through enough psychotherapy and I understand that may be good. So we go in and talk for like three hours while they're filming it, and I was uncomfortable about that...
BN: Do you feel it was simply them wanting to add "drama" to their movie rather than having anything to do with making amends with what happened in the past?
DM: Yeah, they just wanted to continue using me. The thing you got to ask yourself, Bob, is if I was so unimportant that James didn't mention my name ever in the last 20 years, and now they're all saying that I need to be a part of this...what part of 'this' do I need to be a part of? James was saying that we have so much in common and that he wants to talk to me...I'm like, dude, I'm approachable, I'm locatable, drop the horse-shit, if you want to talk to me then call me. As far as Lars in concerned...the last thing he said on Blabbermouth is that he was sexually attracted to me!...Dude, what has happened to you?
BN: Is that true? Or was he being sarcastic as usual?
DM: I've been around Lars enough to know that he's got some pretty questionable things he's said and done over the years and I don't know whether he was joking or not. But I do know this...if Lars wants to get sexual with me, he's gonna be on the bottom.
BN: [Laughing] I thought what might have bonded you and James after all these years was the fact that he has recently become clean and sober...
DM: Just because two people are clean and sober doesn't necessarily mean they will get along or bond together. It's obvious that the footage they used on me in the movie was to make them look good. The fact that people boo my scene [in the theatres]...f**k you! How stupid are you? There would be no Metallica if there wasn't me.
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