Late Soundgarden, etc. frontman Chris Cornell‘s longtime manager Ron Laffitte has spoken regarding Cornell‘s death last week. Cornell took his own life following a May 17th show in Detroit, MI, shocking many of his closest family and friends. Laffitte told CNN:
“Nobody saw this coming, his band mates didn’t see this coming. It’s totally out of character for the Chris that I’ve known and worked with for the last 10 years. It’s incredibly bizarre. I have to think that something threw him off the tracks … he must have been out of his right mind.”
Laffitte further went on to say that he talked with Chris during the afternoon of the day he died, mapping out plans for him to perform at the 2017 ‘Global Citizens Music Festival‘ in September. He recalled of that conversation:
“He was just really excited about this specific idea that we were going to do. He said, ‘We aren’t just going to make pop history with this one, brother. We are going to make real history.'”
“I would say the last couple of months, he was as optimistic and happy as I can ever recall him … He was so excited about all these things and a new record we were going to put out in the fall.”
Cornell‘s widow Vicky believes that an improper dosage of his anxiety medication Ativan may have influenced his decision to take his own life. He is due to be laid to rest today, May 26th, in a private funeral at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
