Taylor Momsen has shared that she fell into a "hole of utter depression and substance abuse" after the death of Chris Cornell.
The Gossip Girl star, who is also the frontwoman of The Pretty Reckless, was touring with Cornell's band Soundgarden prior to his death by suicide in 2017.
She told People magazine: "Opening for Soundgarden was the highest of highs for me so to have it end so tragically was crushing. "We were there that night in Detroit [when Chris died] and spoke that evening.
To wake up to the news that he had passed was such a shock. I was not equipped to handle that." To make matters worse, her longtime producer Keto Khandwala was killed in a motorcycle accident less than a year later.
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