In a brand new interview with Meltdown Of Detroit’s WRIF radio station, FOZZY frontman and WWE wrestling superstar Chris Jericho was asked for his opinion on the recent passings of LINKIN PARK‘s Chester Bennington and SOUNDGARDEN‘s Chris Cornell. He responded: “I didn’t really have much of a connection to Chester; I never met him and I wasn’t a LINKIN PARK fan. No reason other than it just wasn’t my vibe.
[I’m] always sad to hear [about] one of the brothers kind of going out that way. But I will say that Cornell [was] one of my favorite singers of all time. I had the pleasure of meeting him. Actually, I saw him, I think, two days before he passed away at a festival in Minnesota somewhere.”He continued: “I will say this: it really makes me made when I read people going, ‘The way that he took himself out was disgusting,’ and this, that and other thing. It’s, like, I’ve known two people now who have had suicides that had this immense depression. And I really find that that’s a disease, just like cancer or a heart attack would be. And when you’re saying to somebody, ‘Oh, yeah, he killed himself,’ I think you should use it in the same mindset and vibe as if you say he died of cancer. I don’t think it’s something you can really help doing… [People say] ‘Chester had six kids. How can he do this? What a coward!’ I think he had about as…
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