Before his untimely death by suicide in 2017, Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington dealt with an “hour-by-hour battle with addiction” to alcohol for months.
Author Jason Lipshutz details the artist’s dark moments as well as the rise of the famous rock band in “It Starts With One: The Legend and Legacy of Linkin Park.”
“However, in recent months, while he was publicly discussing his general struggles with life during the One More Light press, he was privately telling locals about a particular problem: the demand to drink after eating his thoughts again,” an excerpt from the book reads, per People.
The quote continues: “‘He was describing an hour-by-hour battle with addiction,’ said Ryan Shuck, Chester’s close friend who helped turn around one of his brighter times in the 2000s into the solo album Dead by Sunrise and it was. texting him about his alcoholism in the weeks before his death.”
“When an autopsy and toxicology report later confirmed that Chester had a trace amount of alcohol in his system at the time of his death — he was found with an empty bottle of Stella Artois in the room as well as a glass of Corona. less than half full – Talinda was not surprised.
“She immediately realized that those beer bottles were a relapse. I knew immediately that that drink triggered that shame,’ she said, ‘that it triggered a lifetime of unhealthy neural pathways.'”
Bennington was 41 when he died on July 20, 2017.
“Our hearts are broken. The shock waves of grief and denial are still going through our family as we come to grips with what happened,” his colleagues said in a statement days after their leading man’s death.
“We’re trying to remind ourselves that the demons you took from us were always part of the deal. After all, it was the way you sang about those demons that made everyone fall in love with you in the first place.”
Months later, Linkin Park held a tribute concert in October before largely falling out of the public eye.
The band have since returned to playing, adding Dead Sara’s Emily Armstrong as a vocalist and Colin Brittain as a drummer earlier this month.
They join bandmates Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, Phoenix and Joe Hahn.
If you or someone you know has been affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call or text the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline on 988.
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