Per the Associated Press, Chris Cornell was found in a Detroit hotel room before medical examiners determined that he’d died by suicide. Cornell’s passing rocked the music world, as his fans and peers mourned a life and talent gone too soon. Taylor Momsen, who was friends with Cornell, and was on tour with his band Soundgarden at the time of his death, was particularly affected. “We went through a lot of loss and a lot of tragedy over the past few years in The Pretty Reckless world,” Taylor shared with Metro UK. “A lot of deaths, a lot of hits. And I won’t speak for everyone, but I went very, very down.”
Following the news, Momsen cancelled the remaining of her tour to process the tragedy. Less than a year later, producer Kato Khandwala, who she was also friends with, died in a motorcycle accident. “That was it,” recalled Momsen. “My life felt like it was over and I went very down to this utterly dark hole of depression and substance abuse and I was a mess. I was living in this hole of darkness that I was not sure I would ever get out of.”
Momsen echoed similar sentiments during an interview with The Illinois Entertainer. “I fell into such a hole of darkness, depression and substance abuse. Essentially I gave up on life. I was so entrenched in all this sadness I didn’t know how to get out of it.”
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