Chester Bennington Quotes

RIP Chester Charles Bennington

I sit here tonight playing One More Light along with Chester Bennington and Linkin Park, on my violin.  Every time I play it I pour my heart and my soul into the song.  And at the very end when Chester says "Who Cares If One More Light Burns Out, Well I do..." I find myself saying " I do."
Because Chester Charles Bennington I care when one more light burns out, and it kills me that yours had to burn out so soon.  There are  many in this world who miss you so much right now, I for one feel an emptiness inside that nothing will ever fill.
Chester you saved a million and one lives through your music, and I am so sorry that a million and one lives could not have saved you.  You were a beautiful and strong man and had a heart of gold, contrary to what you may have thought about yourself. 


Thank you for the years of music you shared with us, each one baring a part of your soul.  You shared with us your pain, your fears, your strength and you gave us hope.  For that we will forever be thankful for.




RIP Chester Charles Bennington, you will never be forgotten and  you will forever be missed...

A Young Chester Charles Bennington

 

 

 

 

Good Good Bye

.

[Chorus: Chester Bennington]
So say goodbye and hit the road
Pack it up and disappear
You better have some place to go
'Cause you can't come back around here
Good goodbye
(Don't you come back no more)

[Verse 1: Mike Shinoda]
Live from the rhythm, it's
Something wild, venomous
Enemies trying to read me
You're all looking highly illiterate
Blindly forgetting if I'm in the mix
You won't find an equivalent
I've been here killing it
Longer than you've been alive, you idiot
And it makes you so mad
Somebody else could be stepping in front of you
And it makes you so mad that you're not the only one
There's more than one of you
And you can't understand the fact
That it's over and done, hope you had fun
You've got a lot to discuss on the bus
Headed back where you're from

[Chorus: Chester Bennington]
So say goodbye and hit the road
Pack it up and disappear
You better have some place to go
'Cause you can't come back around here
Good goodbye
Good goodbye
Good goodbye
Good goodbye
Good goodbye

[Verse 2: Pusha T]
(Wooh!)
Goodbye, good riddance
A period is after every sentence
Did my time with my cellmate
Maxed out so now we finished
Every day was like a hail date
Every night was like a hailstorm
Took her back to my tinted windows
Showin' out, she in rare form
Wings up, now I'm airborne
King Push, they got a chair for him
Make way for the new queen
The old lineup, where they cheer for 'em
Consequence when you ain't there for him
Were you there for him?
Did you care for him?
You were dead wrong

[Chorus: Chester Bennington]
(Don't you come back no more)
So say goodbye and hit the road
Pack it up and disappear
You better have some place to go
'Cause you can't come back around here
Good goodbye
Good goodbye
(Don't you come back no more)
Good goodbye
Good goodbye
(Don't you come back no more)

[Verse 3: Stormzy]
Yo
Let me say goodbye to my demons
Let me say goodbye to my past life
Let me say goodbye to the darkness
Tell 'em that I'd rather be here in the starlight
Tell 'em that I'd rather be here where they love me
Tell 'em that I'm yours this is our life
And I still keep raising the bar like
Never seen a young black brother in the chart twice
Goodbye to the stereotypes
You can't tell my kings we can't
Mandem we're linking tings in parks
Now I got a tune with Linkin Park
Like goodbye to my old hoe’s
Goodbye to the cold roads
I can't die for my postcode
Young little Mike from the Gold Coast
And now I'm inside with my bro bro's
Gang

[Chorus: Chester Bennington]
So say goodbye and hit the road
Pack it up and disappear
You better have some place to go
'Cause you can't come back around here
Good goodbye
Good goodbye
(Don't you come back no more)
Good goodbye
Good goodbye

Linkin Park’s collaboration with Pusha T and Stormzy is partially inspired by Mike Shinoda’s love of basketball. The song uses fouling out of a game as metaphor for the end of a relationship. Mike Shinoda also said it is an outlier track that does not fit in with the rest of the album. He described the song as ‘sarcastic’ in tone and a ‘change of pace’.


On May 3, 2017, Linkin Park delivered a live performance of this song on Facebook in which Mike debuted a second verse for this song that did not make the final cut.

What inspired the song?

Mike Shinoda  via Genius

I’m a basketball fan. When I was writing this song, I wanted to capture that moment at the game when someone fouls out, and the cheerleaders sing and kick out the ejected player.

What did the artists want to achieve with "Good Goodbye"?

Chester Bennington via Genius


We wanted this song to apply to two things at the same time: someone getting kicked out of a game, and someone getting out of a bad relationship.




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Truth For Chester

Memorial held in Tempe for Chester Bennington of Linkin Park

Lying Away From You

When I pretend everything is what I want it to be
I look exactly like what you always wanted to see
When I pretend, I can't forget about the criminal I am
Stealing second after second just 'cause I know I can but
I can't pretend this is the way itll stay Im just
(Trying to bend the truth)
I can't pretend Im who you want me to be, so Im
(Lying my way from you)
No no, turning back now
(I wanna be pushed aside so let me go)
No no, turning back now
(Let me take back my life, Id rather be all alone)
No, turning back now
(Anywhere on my own 'cause I can see)
No no, turning back now

(The very worst part of you is me)
I remember what they taught to me
Remember condescending talk for who I ought to be
Remember listening to all of that and this again
So I pretended up a person who was fittin in
And now you think this person really is me and Im
(Trying to bend the truth)
'Cause the more I push the more Im pulling away 'cause Im
(Lying my way from you)
No no turning back now
(I wanna be pushed aside so let me go)
No no turning back now
(Let me take back my life, Id rather be all alone)
No turning back now
(Anywhere on my own 'cause I can see)
No no, turning back now

(The very worst part of you)

(The very worst part of you is me)
This isnt what I wanted to be
I never thought that what I said would have you running from me
Like this, this isnt what I wanted to be
I never thought that what I said would have you running from me
Like this, this isnt what I wanted to be
I never thought that what I said would have you running from me
Like this, this isnt what I wanted to be
I never thought that what I said would have you running from me
Like this
(You)
No, turning back now
(I wanna be pushed aside so let me go)
No no, turning back now
(Let me take back my life Id rather be all alone)
No, turning back now
(Anywhere on my own 'cause I can see)
No no, turning back now

(The very worst part of you)

(The very worst part of you is me)

Sharp edges

[Verse 1]
Mama always told me don't you run
"Don't you run with scissors, son
You're gonna hurt someone"
Mama told me look before you leap
Always think before you speak, and watch the friends you keep

[Pre-Chorus]
Stay along the beaten path, never listened when she said

[Chorus]
Sharp edges have consequences, I
Guess that I had to find out for myself
Sharp edges have consequences, now
Every scar is a story I can tell

[Verse 2]
Should've played it safer from the start
Loved you like a house of cards
Let it fall apart
But all the things I couldn't understand
Never could've planned
They made me who I am
Put your nose in paperbacks
Instead of smoking cigarettes
These are years you're never getting back

[Pre-Chorus]
Stay along the beaten path, never listened when she said

[Chorus]
Sharp edges have consequences, I
Guess that I had to find out for myself
Sharp edges have consequences, now
Every scar is a story I can tell

[Bridge]
We all fall down
We live somehow
We learn what doesn't kill us makes us stronger
We all fall down
We live somehow
We learn what doesn't kill us makes us stronger
Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh

Stay along the beaten path, never listened when she said

[Chorus]
Sharp edges have consequences, I
Guess that I had to find out for myself
Sharp edges have consequences, now
Every scar is a story I can tell

[Outro]
We all fall down
We live somehow
We learn what doesn't kill us makes us stronger
We all fall down
We live somehow
We learn what doesn't kill us makes us stronger
Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh[Verse 1]
Mama always told me don't you run
"Don't you run with scissors, son
You're gonna hurt someone"
Mama told me look before you leap
Always think before you speak, and watch the friends you keep

[Pre-Chorus]
Stay along the beaten path, never listened when she said

[Chorus]
Sharp edges have consequences, I
Guess that I had to find out for myself
Sharp edges have consequences, now
Every scar is a story I can tell

[Verse 2]
Should've played it safer from the start
Loved you like a house of cards
Let it fall apart
But all the things I couldn't understand
Never could've planned
They made me who I am
Put your nose in paperbacks
Instead of smoking cigarettes
These are years you're never getting back

[Pre-Chorus]
Stay along the beaten path, never listened when she said

[Chorus]
Sharp edges have consequences, I
Guess that I had to find out for myself
Sharp edges have consequences, now
Every scar is a story I can tell

[Bridge]
We all fall down
We live somehow
We learn what doesn't kill us makes us stronger
We all fall down
We live somehow
We learn what doesn't kill us makes us stronger
Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh

Stay along the beaten path, never listened when she said

[Chorus]
Sharp edges have consequences, I
Guess that I had to find out for myself
Sharp edges have consequences, now
Every scar is a story I can tell

[Outro]
We all fall down
We live somehow
We learn what doesn't kill us makes us stronger
We all fall down
We live somehow
We learn what doesn't kill us makes us stronger
Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh

Burn It Down

"Burn It Down"

The cycle repeated
As explosions broke in the sky
All that I needed
Was the one thing I couldn't find

And you were there at the turn
Waiting to let me know

We're building it up
To break it back down
We're building it up
To burn it down
We can't wait
To burn it to the ground

The colors conflicted
As the flames climbed into the clouds
I wanted to fix this
But couldn't stop from tearing it down

And you were there at the turn
Caught in the burning glow
And I was there at the turn
Waiting to let you know

We're building it up
To break it back down
We're building it up
To burn it down
We can't wait
To burn it to the ground

You told me, "Yes,"
You held me high
And I believed when you told that lie
I played soldier, you played king
And struck me down, when I kissed that ring
You lost that right, to hold that crown
I built you up, but you let me down
So when you fall, I'll take my turn
And fan the flames
As your blazes burn

And you were there at the turn
Waiting to let me know

We're building it up
To break it back down
We're building it up
To burn it down
We can't wait
To burn it to the ground

When you fall, I'll take my turn
And fan the flames
As your blazes burn

We can't wait
To burn it to the ground

When you fall, I'll take my turn
And fan the flames
As your blazes burn

We can't wait
To burn it to the ground

My December

"My December"

[Chester Bennington:]
This is my December
This is my time of the year
This is my December
This is all so clear
This is my December
This is my snow-covered home
This is my December
This is me alone

[Mike Shinoda and Chester Bennington:]
And I just wish that I didn't feel like there was something I missed
And I take back all the things I said to make you feel like that
And I just wish that I didn't feel like there was something I missed
And I take back all the things that I said to you

[Chester Bennington:]
And I'd give it all away
Just to have somewhere
To go to
Give it all away
To have someone
To come home to

This is my December
These are my snow-covered trees
This is me pretending
This is all I need

[Mike Shinoda and Chester Bennington:]
And I just wish that I didn't feel like there was something I missed
And I take back all the things I said to make you feel like that
And I just wish that I didn't feel like there was something I missed
And I take back all the things that I said to you

[Chester Bennington:]
And I'd give it all away
Just to have
Somewhere to go to
Give it all away
To have someone
To come home to

This is my December
This is my time of the year
This is my December
This is all so clear

Give it all away
Just to have somewhere
To go to
Give it all away
To have someone
To come home to

Give it all away
Just to have somewhere
To go to
Give it all away
To have someone
To come home to

From the inside

"From The Inside"

[Chester Bennington (Mike Shinoda):]
I don't know who to trust no surprise
(Everyone feels so far away from me)
Heavy thoughts sift through dust and the lies

[Mike Shinoda:]
Trying not to break but I'm so tired of this deceit
Every time I try to make myself get back upon my feet
All I ever think about is this
All the tiring time between
And how trying to put my trust in you just takes so much out of me

[Chester Bennington:]
Take everything from the inside
And throw it all away
'Cause I swear for the last time
I won't trust myself with you

[Chester Bennington (Mike Shinoda):]
Tension is building inside steadily
(Everyone feels so far away from me)
Heavy thoughts forcing their way out of me

[Mike Shinoda:]
Trying not to break but I'm so tired of this deceit
Every time I try to make myself get back upon my feet
All I ever think about is this
All the tiring time between
And how trying to put my trust in you just takes so much out of me

[Chester Bennington:]
Take everything from the inside
And throw it all away
'Cause I swear for the last time
I won't trust myself with you

I won't waste myself on you, you, you
Waste myself on you, you, you

I'll take everything from the inside
And throw it all away
'Cause I swear for the last time
I won't trust myself with you

Everything from the inside
And just throw it all away
'Cause I swear for the last time
I won't trust myself with you, you, you

Iridescent

Iridescent"

When you were standing in the wake of devastation
When you were waiting on the edge of the unknown
And with the cataclysm raining down
Insides crying, "Save me now!"
You were there, impossibly alone

Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?
You build up hope, but failure's all you've known
Remember all the sadness and frustration
And let it go. Let it go

And in a burst of light that blinded every angel
As if the sky had blown the heavens into stars
You felt the gravity of tempered grace
Falling into empty space
No one there to catch you in their arms

Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?
You build up hope, but failure's all you've known
Remember all the sadness and frustration
And let it go. Let it go

Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?
You build up hope, but failure's all you've known
Remember all the sadness and frustration
And let it go. Let it go

Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go

Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?
You build up hope, but failure's all you've known
Remember all the sadness and frustration
And let it go. Let it go

Chester Bennington Was About To Expose The Truth Behind Chris Cornell’s Death

As the world mourns the death of Linkin Park’s singer Chester Bennington, the circumstances surrounding his death are shrouded in suspicion.


His death was ruled as a suicide by police after he was found hanging at his home in Palos Verdes near LA on Thursday morning, despite the lack of a toxicology report or an official Los Angeles County coroner’s verdict.








Mr. Bennington’s death strikes more than a passing resemblance to the death of his close friend Chris Cornell who shocked the world when he tragically passed on May 17th of this year.


Both men were found hanging on the back of the door and both deaths were prematurely ruled as a suicide by police.Bennington was also found dead on, what would have been, Chris Cornell’s 53rd birthday.


Families and friends of both men say they were shocked by the news and that they were “in a good place”, yet the mainstream media paints a very different picture of how they were battling with addiction and depression and were “suicidal”.


The two singers had something much more troubling in common: Pedophilia.Bennington had also previously spoken out about being sexually abused as a seven-year-old, saying he had been molested by an older male friend.”


If I think back to when I was really young, to when I was being molested, to when all these horrible things were going on around me, I shudder,” he said in one interview.


He attributed his abuse to his alcohol and drug addiction he struggled with in later life, but after marrying his second wife in 2007 he said he his life turned around for the better and he never looked back.


In a 2011 interview, he said he was sober. “I don’t drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don’t want to be that person anymore.”








According to TMD, Bennington’s close friend and his wife had set up the Chris and Vicky Cornell Foundation for neglected children and also worked with a number of charities that worked with children rescued from child trafficking networks.


During his charitable work, Mr. Cornell had discovered a “black book” of names for an Elite pedophile ring that was part of a global child abuse network.


Sources close to Cornell revealed that he was planning on going public with the names shortly before he was found dead.


Friends and family of Chester Bennington said they were in absolute “shock” over the rock star’s apparent suicide and stressed that they believed he “was in a good place in his life”.


According to close friends of Mr. Bennington, Cornell had shared “troubling” information with him shortly before his death.After news of his shock death emerged, friends said that while they never suspected he’d kill himself, Bennington was “never the same” after the death of his close friend Chris Cornell.”


Chester and Chris were so close, and he was never the same after Chris’s death,” the friend told Radar. “He knew something about [his death] that really troubled him”


The friend of Bennington’s also noted that Cornell’s passing had deeply affected Bennington, but that he was far from suicidal and was looking for a way to “shine a light” on the truth behind his friend’s death.”


Everyone thought that he had it licked. He seemed to be at a good place in his life. It is just so tragic and there are no words,” the friend told Radar.


source:


www.neonnettle.com



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Halfway Right

[Verse 1]
I scream at myself when there's nobody else to fight
I don't lose, I don't win, if I'm wrong, then I'm halfway right
Used to get high with the dead end kids
Abandoned houses where the shadows lived
I never been higher than I was that night
I woke up driving my car
I couldn't see then what I see right now
The road dissolving like an empty vow
Couldn't remember where I'd been that night
I knew I took it too far

[Pre-Chorus]
All you said to do was slow down
I remember, now I remember
All you said to do was slow down
But I was already gone

[Chorus]
I scream at myself when there's nobody else to fight
I don't lose, I don't win, if I'm wrong, then I'm halfway right
I know what I want, but it feels like I'm paralyzed
I don't lose, I don't win, if I'm wrong, then I'm halfway right (halfway right)

[Verse 2]
Told me "Kid, you're going way too fast
You burn too bright, you know you'll never last"
It was bullshit then, I guess it makes sense now
I woke up driving my car
Said I'd lose you if I lost control
I just laughed because what do they know?
Here I am, standing all alone
Because I took it too far

[Pre-Chorus]
All you said to do was slow down
I remember, now I remember
All you said to do was slow down
But I was already gone

[Chorus]
I scream at myself when there's nobody else to fight
I don't lose, I don't win, if I'm wrong, then I'm halfway right
I know what I want, but it feels like I'm paralyzed
I don't lose, I don't win, if I'm wrong, then I'm halfway right , halfway right

[Bridge]
Na na na na na na na na
Nana nana, na nana nana
Na na na na na na na na
But I was already gone

[Outro]
I scream at myself when there's nobody else to fight
I don't lose, I don't win, if I'm wrong, then I'm halfway right
Na na na na na na na na
Nana nana, na nana nana

Somewhere I Belong

"Somewhere I Belong"

[Mike Shinoda (Chester Bennington):]
(When this began)
I had nothing to say
And I'd get lost in the nothingness inside of me
(I was confused)
And I let it all out to find
That I'm not the only person with these things in mind
(Inside of me)
But all the vacancy the words revealed
Is the only real thing that I've got left to feel
(Nothing to lose)
Just stuck, hollow and alone
And the fault is my own, and the fault is my own

[Chester Bennington:]
I wanna heal, I wanna feel what I thought was never real
I wanna let go of the pain I've felt so long
(Erase all the pain 'til it's gone)
I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I'm close to something real
I wanna find something I've wanted all along
Somewhere I belong

[Mike Shinoda (Chester Bennington):]
And I've got nothing to say
I can't believe I didn't fall right down on my face
(I was confused)
Looking everywhere only to find
That it's not the way I had imagined it all in my mind
(So what am I?)
What do I have but negativity
'Cause I can't justify the way, everyone is looking at me
(Nothing to lose)
Nothing to gain, hollow and alone
And the fault is my own, and the fault is my own

[Chester Bennington:]
I wanna heal, I wanna feel what I thought was never real
I wanna let go of the pain I've felt so long
(Erase all the pain 'til it's gone)
I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I'm close to something real
I wanna find something I've wanted all along
Somewhere I belong

I will never know myself until I do this on my own
And I will never feel anything else, until my wounds are healed
I will never be anything 'til I break away from me
I will break away, I'll find myself today

I wanna heal, I wanna feel what I thought was never real
I wanna let go of the pain I've felt so long
(Erase all the pain 'til it's gone)
I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I'm close to something real
I wanna find something I've wanted all along
Somewhere I belong

I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I'm somewhere I belong
I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I'm somewhere I belong
Somewhere I belong

One Step Closer

"One Step Closer"

[Chester Bennington:]
I cannot take this anymore
Saying everything I've said before
All these words: they make no sense
I find bliss in ignorance
Less I hear the less you'll say
You'll find that out anyway

Just like before...

Everything you say to me
Takes me one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break
I need a little room to breathe
'Cause I'm one step closer to the edge
I'm about to break

I find the answers aren't so clear
Wish I could find a way to disappear
All these thoughts: they make no sense
I find bliss in ignorance
Nothing seems to go away
Over and over again

Just like before...

Everything you say to me
Takes me one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break
I need a little room to breathe
'Cause I'm one step closer to the edge
I'm about to break

Everything you say to me
Takes me one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break
I need a little room to breathe
'Cause I'm one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to... break!

Shut up when I'm talking to you
Shut up, shut up, shut up
Shut up when I'm talking to you
Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up
I'm about to break!

Everything you say to me
Takes me one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break
I need a little room to breathe
'Cause I'm one step closer to the edge
I'm about to break

Everything you say to me
Takes me one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break
I need a little room to breathe
'Cause I'm one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to...
Break!

Police Find Chester Bennington Murder Suspect?

 

August 10, 2017

Police Find Chester Bennington Murder Suspect?

Los Angeles Police Department detectives and prosecutors working on the Chester Bennington murder case have turned over enough evidence to arrest a person of interest, but are facing “strong pushback” from higher-ups within the department.

An LAPD source says they believe the murder of Chester Bennington was carried out by a “crew” led by an assassin with close ties to several unnamed yet implicated music industry executives.
A small faction within the LAPD have interviewed Bennington’s close associates, friends and neighbors, and have identified a person of interest who “under normal circumstances would be arrested by now.“
But the detectives are facing “strong pushback” from senior members of the department who have warned them against proceeding with the investigation.

“We’ve been told if we arrest this guy, jobs will be on the line.“
LAPD detectives and a LAPD Chief, the department’s highest rank under Commissioner, have told those obstructing the investigation that if they are not allowed to proceed with the arrest they will go public with the damaging evidence of a criminal conspiracy now in the hands of senior department officials.
“What we’ve found is staggering and the people we think it might implicate are at the very top of the music business,” said the Police Chief. “There is not going to be any Houdini-like escape for these people. If this pushback stops us for much longer we will go public. We will send the evidence to WikiLeaks or I will personally hold my own press conference if I have to do that.”

Cover up
Police reportedly launched a murder investigation into the death of Chester Bennington’s immediately after his death, with insiders claiming it was “extremely likely” the Linkin Park frontman was killed in eerily similar circumstances to his close friend Chris Cornell.
Now the evidence, according to law enforcement sources, implicates senior music industry executives, their subordinates, and even select elected officials in far more alleged serious crimes than just the murder of the two musicians. LAPD sources said new discoveries include evidence linking entertainment industry elites with:

• child exploitation
• sex crimes with children (minors)
• human trafficking
• ritual murder
• blackmail
• money laundering
• other felony crimes

Chester Bennington, who sang at Chris Cornell’s recent funeral after becoming close to the Soundgarden frontman in recent years, was reportedly working with Cornell’s foundation to prevent the sexual exploitation of vulnerable children

The Linkin Park frontman – the father of six children, and also the godfather to Chris Cornell’s three children – was on record talking about the long-term emotional fallout of being sexually abused by an older male as a child.
“If I think back to when I was really young, to when I was being molested, to when all these horrible things were going on around me, I shudder,” he told the metal magazine Kerrang! in 2011.
Close friends of Chris Cornell say that he was shown a “black book” that included the name of one of his professional associates. After setting up his foundation and investigating further, Cornell was close to exposing a network of pedophiles working within the entertainment industry – a dangerous job that he considered his “duty.”
The official investigation into Chris Cornell’s death is closed, but new evidence could re-open the case. His widow and many of his fans are unsatisfied with the ruling by police and medical examiners that the Soundgarden frontman committed suicide, pointing out that he was found with nine broken ribs and a head wound – injuries unaccounted for in his official post-mortem

http://whatstrendingnow1.blogspot.com/2017/08/police-find-chester-bennington-murder.html

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Linkin Park Chester Bennington Pizzagate connection

On July 20th, we learned that lead singer of Linkin Park Chester Bennington died of alleged suicide. I was well aware that Chester was good friends with Chris Cornell who died of alleged suicide on May 18, 2017, just two months before his July 20th birthday. Bennington and Cornell were so close that Bennington was actually the Godfather to Cornell’s children.
Chester was born in Phoenix on March 20, 1976. His mother, Susan Elaine Johnson, was a nurse and his dad, Lee Russell Bennington, was a police detective whose work focused on child abuse cases. Not only was his father a detective but his brother Brian Bennington is a police officer. Chester has an older half-brother and two older half-sisters. In 1996, Chester had a son with Elka Brand and eventually adopted her son as his own in 2006. Chester and his wife Talinda Bentley had three children together, one boy and two girls. He and his first wife, Samantha Marie Olit, had a child together in 2002.
When Chester was 11, his parents divorced and his father won custody of him. Due to his father’s long work hours, he was rarely home leaving Chester feeling lonely. At 17, he decided to move in with his mother. She soon realized he was on drugs and kicked him out. In 2011, he decided he would remain clean from drugs because “he did not want to be that person anymore”. However, in 2016, he was using again and Linkin Park had to stage an intervention for him. In an interview with Metal Hammer, Chester said:
“I was on 11 hits of acid a day. I dropped so much acid I’m surprised I can still speak! I’d smoke a bunch of cracks, do a bit of math and just sit there and freak out. Then I’d smoke opium to come down. I weighed 110 pounds. My mom said I looked like I stepped out of Auschwitz. So I used pot to get off drugs. Every time I’d get a craving, I’d smoke my pot.”
For several years, Chester Bennington spoke about the rape he experienced as a child. He has stated several times that from ages 7 to 13 he was molested by a man a couple of years older than him.
Previously speaking to Kerrang! magazine in 2014, Chester explained:
“It escalated from a touchy, curious, ‘what does this thing do’ into full-on, crazy violations. I was getting beaten up and being forced to do things I didn’t want to do. It destroyed my self-confidence. I didn’t want people to think I was gay or that I was lying. It was a horrible experience.”
In every interview or article, I have read, I cannot find that he ever stated who his abuser was. Over the years, Chester openly discussed his battle with drug and alcohol addiction. Just about every time he mentioned it, he would say he believed it was due to the years he was molested. Naturally, the trauma affected him greatly throughout his life. Oddly, it appears he was clean at the time of his death and nothing has been revealed that proves otherwise. You can read his online obituary here: http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/chester-bennington-obituary-1976-2017-2113700
What really stood out to me while reading about his life, was that he endured rape for 6 years while living with his father who was a child abuse detective. Without actually speaking with his father or relatives, I can only speculate he must have known. I know he was away a lot due to his job and Chester admits he didn’t tell anyone until years after it happened. Nevertheless, you would think with his father’s employment, he would want to tell him. If a parent of mine was a child sex abuse detective, I would feel completely safe telling them I had been raped. I would have high hopes that my parent would take care of the guy who hurt me. Was it possible that Bennington did not want to out his “friend” who was molesting him? Was it a family member? Was it someone too powerful in their life that his parents could not take down? These are all questions that run through my head every time a new article is released.
Bennington’s close friend Chris Cornell from Soundgarden ran an organization called “IF ONLY” to help protect sexually abused children. Especially those who were addicted to drugs or alcohol.
“The Chris & Vicky Cornell Foundation was formed in late 2012 with the mission to protect the most vulnerable children. While most of their philanthropic work to date has been private and anonymous, Chris and Vicky formed the Foundation based on their personal experience working in the child protection space.”
You may remember that Chris allegedly died of suicide by hanging as well. Detroit News wasn’t buying the story after speaking with some close friends and relatives. You can read the whole article here: Chris Cornell death probe leaves some unsatisfied. This entire section really stood out to me:
A child sex ring?
[Cody, who runs the heavy metal rock website The Metal Den, said he believes Cornell — who established a foundation with his wife to help vulnerable children — may have been killed because he was about to expose a child sex ring.
Cody claims a rock star who was a friend of Cornell’s wife showed up in a “black book” that, according to the theory, named pedophiles associated with Comet Ping Pong. Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police said the allegations are untrue.
In December, Edgar Welch opened fire inside the Washington pizzeria. He told police he’d gone there to investigate if children were being abused. Welch was sentenced last month to four years in prison.
On his website, Cody claims that a source close to Cornell told him the rocker was about to expose pedophiles among the political and entertainment elite.
Cody added he isn’t focusing on the sex ring theory anymore, although he said he still believes that’s why Cornell was killed.]
I do not know this Cody guy but I would LOVE to speak with him. Cody if you read this, please email me. Now, I know there are some pretty slimy people in this world but I do not believe Cody was just fueling Pizzagate rumors for no reason but some publicity. I really want to know who this friend of Cornell’s wife is that showed up in the black book. Could have been Bennington? God forbid, I really hope not. Maybe Bennington and Cornell were trying to take this guy and the entire sex trafficking ring down together and that is why they were both killed.
I do like to just throw allegations out there about anyone. I am not by no means saying that Bennington or Cornell were child abusers. Please understand that. I am just sharing how my mind works. These are the thoughts and ideas that go through my head. I could be completely wrong and just read one too many crime novels. I am not the only one speculating though.
Many people have noticed the resemblance in Pizzagate’s main player John David Podesta.

                   

                              

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