Taylor Momsen has experienced her share of heartbreak. Momsen, the frontwoman for The Pretty Reckless, was on tour with Soundgarden when lead vocalist Chris Cornell took his life.
Cornell’s death took a heavy toll on her ability to perform. “I don’t want to get too heavy, but there’s kind of no way to talk about it without going into the losses that we experienced,” Momsen told Brent Smith for Interview magazine. “We lost a lot of people very close to us.
We were on tour with Soundgarden, which was such a peak for me. I’m the biggest Soundgarden fan in the world.” READ MORE: Chris Cornell’s Daughter Toni Covers Leonard Cohen Classic ‘Hallelujah’ “Chris Cornell passed away on the night of our last show.
That was crushing to me. I was not mentally prepared to handle that, and it really took me down.” Her mourning was exasperated by another death, that of her close friend Kato Khandwala. “I couldn’t fake it.
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