LINKIN PARK Singer CHESTER BENNINGTON Commits Suicide
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According to TMZ, LINKIN PARK frontman Chester Bennington has committed suicide. Los Angeles County coroner confirmed Chester's passing to the Associated Press. He was 41 years old.
Law enforcement sources tell the site the singer hanged himself at a private residence in Palos Verdes Estates in Los Angeles county. His body was discovered Thursday just before 9 a.m.
Chester wed Talinda Bentley in 2006. The couple share three children, and he has three children from previous relationships.
The singer struggled with drugs and alcohol for years. He had said in the past he had considered committing suicide because he had been abused as a child by an older male.
"When I was young, getting beaten up and pretty much raped was no fun," Chester told The Guardian in 2011. "No one wants that to happen to you and honestly, I don't remember when it started."
He recalled that seeing a photo of himself as a child at his mother's house from around the time of the abuse brought it all back.
"I remember that stuff happening to me at that stage and even thinking about it now makes me want to cry," he said. "My God, no wonder I became a drug addict. No wonder I just went completely insane for a little while."
After Chris Cornell died in May, Bennington wrote a heartfelt message paying tribute to the SOUNDGARDEN frontman. In the message, Bennington wrote he couldn't imagine the world without his late friend in it.
Bennington's body was found on what would have been Cornell's 53rd birthday.
LINKIN PARK's most recent album, "One More Light", topped the Billboard 200 earlier this year.Source: www.blabbermouth.net
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