Chester Bennington’s Son Jaime Says Fans Are Telling Him “To Kill Myself” After He Criticized New Linkin Park Singer

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One day after Jaime Bennington, the son of the late Linkin Park lead singer Chester Bennington, criticized the band for their decision to hire new lead singer Emily Armstrong, the 28-year-old scion said fans are now wishing death on him. “All these people come over to me and go, ‘You don’t know what your dad would think,'” the younger Bennington shared on social media. “You’re coming over to my posts and my livestreams and telling me to kill myself, that I’m awful, that my father doesn’t appreciate me.

What are you talking about? You didn’t give a fuck when he died. If you did, you would understand what the problem is. You would understand why this is all wrong.

I do because I’m his kid.” That so-called fans would tell Bennington to kill himself is made even more heinous — or at least grievously thoughtless — given the fact that his father died by suicide seven years ago.

Now, the younger Bennington says he does not feel safe. “There are a lot of people who do not like me. There are a lot of people saying some really awful shit right now to me,” he shared on social media, before saying he wanted to go to the band’s reunion show tomorrow in order to get closure.