Chester’s widow, Talinda Bennington spoke about her husband at Canadian Event Safety Summit and revealed surprising statement. She said:
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“Chester and I were both very emotionally unhealthy in our own different ways, and over our time together — we were together for 12 and a half years — we both grew. He struggled with addiction and depression, two things that I’ve never struggled with. Although I do have my own demons, I did have my hardships growing up, we just handled them in very different ways.
So I came from a point of complete — for lack of a better term — ignorance to his situation. But over time, I came to learn that taking care of your mental health is as important as your physical health.
Chester’s death was a complete surprise. My husband had had past… in the past, he had attempted suicide, but I thought to myself, ‘It was ’cause he was wasted. He was this or that.’ So [before] he did pass, I thought very naïvely, we were in the clear.
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We had a very, very dear friend, Chris Cornell, take his own life. And I felt that, ‘Okay, Chester sees what Vicky [Chris’s wife] and [their] kids’ — we’re godparents to their children — ‘what they’re going through and this will never happen.’”