Chris Cornell’s loss of life in 2018 rocked Taylor Momsen. The Fairly Reckless singer, 28, was on tour with Soundgarden when Cornell died by suicide. In a brand new interview, Momsen reveals she additionally misplaced her greatest buddy across the identical time, which despatched her right into a spiral of “melancholy” and “substance abuse.”
“I do not need to get too heavy, however there’s form of no solution to speak about it with out going into the losses that we skilled,” the Gossip Woman alum tells singer Brent Smith for Interview journal. “We misplaced lots of people very near us. We had been on tour with Soundgarden, which was such a peak for me. I am the most important Soundgarden fan on the earth. Chris Cornell handed away on the night time of our final present. That was crushing to me. I used to be not mentally ready to deal with that, and it actually took me down.”
Momsen shortly realized she “could not get on stage each night time and be OK.”
“I could not faux it. So I canceled the tour and went residence. Then, I realized that our producer Kato, my greatest buddy in the entire world and virtually a member of the band, died in a bike accident. That was the nail within the coffin for me,” she says. “I spiraled actual quick: melancholy, substance abuse. I fell into this gap that I could not get out of — I did not even know if I needed to. I lastly obtained to a spot the place I felt like I actually wanted music once more — I used to be depriving myself of it throughout that point, and I’d by no means achieved that.”
Momsen needed to reintroduce music into her life.
“I began from the start. I requested myself why I fell in love with music, the place did it begin? I went by way of all of the bands I grew up loving, and was even capable of ultimately hearken to Soundgarden once more, and have it carry me pleasure,” she shares.
The Fairly Reckless launched their fourth studio album final yr, titled Dying by Rock and Roll.
“This document is an homage to these liked and misplaced, and it is very hopeful. It captures the arc of grief — on the finish, it does get higher. The phrase Dying by Rock and Roll, is essential, as a result of it was one thing Kato used to say, and a motto that we lived our lives by,” Momsen continues. “We had a recording of Kato’s footsteps, and the document begins with that sound. We play that each present, like he is strolling onstage with us.”
Momsen is again on tour with rock band Shinedown.
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