NEWS BROKE YESTERDAY THAT CHRIS CORNELL THE LEAD
SINGER OF AUDIO SLAVE AND ALSO OF SOUNDGARDEN HAD PASSED AWAY.
HE DIED IN AN APPARENT SUICIDE AND WE'RE STILL WAITING FOR MORE
DETAILS ON THE STORY, BUT WHAT IS INTERESTING ABOUT WHAT
OCCURRED IS HIS STATEMENT FROM HIS WIFE WHICH WAS JUST
RELEASED TODAY BY HIS WIFE VICKY SAYS THAT THERE WAS NO
REASON THAT HE WOULD COMMIT SUICIDE.
HE WAS HAPPY.
THEY WERE PLANNING A VACATION DURING MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND
AND THAT THIS WHOLE INCIDENT COMPLETELY SHOCKED HER AND
THE REST OF THE FAMILY.
CORNELL HAD A TROUBLING TELEPHONE CONVERSATION WITH
HIS WIFE AND HOUR BEFORE HIS DEATH WHERE HE ADMITTED TO
TAKING AN EXTRA ATIVAN OR TWO AND WAS SLURRING HIS WORDS.
HE WAS IN DETROIT TOURING.
HE JUST PERFORMED A CONCERT AND HE CALLED AND SOUNDED VERY
STRANGE.
SHE WAS A LITTLE ALARMED AND ACTUALLY CALLED HIS
BODYGUARD AND WANTED HIM TO CHECK ON THE CHRIS CORNELL
JUST TO MAKE SURE EVERYTHING WAS OKAY.
THE BODYGUARD SHOWS UP TO THE HOTEL ROOM.
THE DOOR WAS LOCKED.
HE TRIED TO GET SECURITY AT THE HOTEL TO OPEN THE DOOR, BUT
THEY REFUSED TO DO SO AND SO HIS BODYGUARD JUST DECIDED TO
KICK THE DOOR DOWN.
THEN HE PROCEEDED INTO THE
BATHROOM WHICH WAS ALSO LOCKED, PROCEEDED TO KICK DOWN THAT
DOOR AND THEN FOUND THAT CHRIS CORNELL HAD HANGED HIMSELF.
HE PUT AN EXERCISE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE CALLED, AND
EXERCISE TUBE AROUND HIS NECK.
IT IS SUPER INTERESTING.
THE CONCERTGOERS SAID THAT HE WAS ALSO ACTING STRANGE AND
THEY COULD TELL THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG.
AT LEAST HIM OF THEM HAVE SAID THAT THIS POINT, AND APPARENTLY,
LOOK, I DON'T WANT ATIVAN TO SUE ME BECAUSE I'M NOT THE EXPERT ON
THIS, BUT AT LEAST ROLLING STONE IS REPORTING THAT IF YOU
TAKE TOO MUCH ATIVAN, THERE IS SOME CHANCE IT MAKES YOU
SUICIDAL.
THERE ARE SIDE EFFECTS, JUST LIKE ANY ANTIANXIETY
MEDICATION, THERE ARE SIDE EFFECTS.
ATIVAN IS KNOWN FOR HAVING THAT PARTICULAR SIDE EFFECT
ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE AN OLDER PATIENT WHO IS USING IT,
BUT ONLY IF YOU TAKE TOO MUCH.
THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT IS UNKNOWN.
PEOPLE TO HAVE PARANOID OR SUICIDAL THOUGHTS IF THEY
DON'T TAKE THE RECOMMENDED DOSAGE AND IN THIS CASE,
HIS BODYGUARD HAD GIVEN HIM TO ATIVAN'S AND HE TOLD HIS
WIFE I THINK I TOOK TOO MANY.
THE VICTIM TAKES IT FOR ANXIETY.
HE IS ALSO A RECOVERING DRUG ADDICT, OR WAS THAT WE KNOW THAT
AS WELL AND DRUG ADDICTS HAVE TAKEN THE DRUG TO HELP DEAL
WITH SOME OF THE SIDE EFFECTS OR WITHDRAWS I SHOULD SAY.
LOOK, IT IS TOUGH FOR ME TO SAY BECAUSE I AM NOT A
RECOVERING ADDICT DIED ON HAVING ZAIDI, BUT I JUST FEEL LIKE
PEOPLE THINK TOO MANY DRUGS AND THERE ARE SO MANY SIDE EFFECTS
DIDO MEAN ILLEGAL DRUGS, ILLEGAL DRUGS, PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.
I AM NOTHING WITH ANY DEGREE OF CERTAINTY, DON'T TAKE IT TO THE
BANK.
TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR ABOUT IT, ETC.,
BUT THAT IS A REALLY BAD SIDE EFFECT IF IT IS TRUE.
AND WHAT HAS TRIPPED ME OUT ABOUT IT IS EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT
NORMALLY SUICIDAL, CLINICALLY DEPRESSED, THE OTHER FACTORS AND
ALL OF A SUDDEN IT TRIGGERS IT.
JESUS, THE THOUGHT OF HOW MUCH A DRUG CAN CHANGE YOUR BRAIN
IN THAT MOMENT.
THAT IS WHAT IS FREAKING ME OUT.
IT IS A SAD STORY.
I WON'T COMMENT ON HIS CONDITION OR DRUG USE.
IT SEEMS AS THOUGH PERHAPS HE WAS FAMILIAR WITH THE DRUG,
SO MUCH SO THAT HE WAS AWARE THAT MAYBE HERE TAKEN TOO MUCH.
I AM A FAN OF AUDIO SLADE SO IT IS JUST SAD NEWS.
IT IS INCREDIBLY SAD.
LOOK, I THINK ONE OF THE BIGGEST ISSUES THAT WE ARE EXPERIENCING
AS A COUNTRY IS THIS GOD THAT IF THE DRUG IS PRESCRIBED TO YOU
THAT IT MUST BE SAFE.
WE HAVE DEALT WITH ILLEGAL NARCOTICS CONTINUOUSLY BEING
DEMONIZED AND SINCE A LOT OF THE FOCUS HAS BEEN ON ILLEGAL
NARCOTICS, IT IS THIS WEIRD THOUGHT OR SUBCONSCIOUS THOUGHT
THAT HEY, IF IT IS PRESCRIBED MY DOCTOR TO SAVE BUT YOU HAVE
TO BE CAREFUL WITH THE DOSAGE THAT YOU HAVE TO TAKE WHAT IS
RECOMMENDED AND EDUCATE YOURSELF ON ALL OF THE SIDE EFFECTS.
I THINK ONCE YOU GET PRESCRIBED, YOU BECOME A LITTLE LESS
CAREFUL AND YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL.
LOOK, I DON'T KNOW.
I WOULD APPROACH PRESCRIPTION DRUGS WITH GREAT CAUTION
AND I THINK EVEN MORE SO THAN SOME DRUGS THAT ARE ILLEGAL.
YOU TELL ME PRESCRIPTION PAINKILLERS OR ATIVAN OR
WHATEVER, I DON'T MEAN TO PICK ON THIS PARTICULAR THING.
AGAIN I AM NOT A SCIENTIST AND I DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT IT BUT IF
YOU TELL ME ANY OF THOSE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS OR A
BEER OR A JOINT, I WILL TAKE THE BEER JOINTS ANY DAY.
BECAUSE I KNOW I DON'T HAVE THE ADDICTIVE PERSONALITY THAT
IS GOING TO BECOME AN ALCOHOLIC OR THE OTHER ONE, RIGHT?
BETTER KNOW WHAT THE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ARE
GOING TO DO TO MY HEAD.
SOMETIMES YOU NEED THEM, I GET IT.
THAT IS WHY THEY EXIST BUT BE CAREFUL.
LASTLY, BEST
CONCERT I EVER WENT TO WAS NOT A SOUNDGARDEN ONE, NO ONE EVEN
KNEW SOUNDGARDEN WAS - WITH GUNS AND ROSES AND IT WAS AN
OPENING ACT AND THEY CAME OUT, IT WAS IN THE WINTERTIME, AND
THIS BRASH, CRAZY SINGER WAS LIKE, I WANT TO DEDICATE
THIS SONG TO A FRIEND OF MINE WHO HAS A BIRTHDAY COMING UP.
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.
AND THEN THEY ROCKED IT.
AND I WAS LIKE WHO ARE THESE GUYS?
HUMAN TO A CONCERT?
THAT'S THE TAKE AWAY.
HE WAS ABOUT CONCERT?
EVERYONE OF US WAS LIKE WHO ARE THESE GUYS?
THEY REALLY DO,
THAT'S SOUNDGARDEN, THAT'S CHRIS CORNELL.