CHRIS CORNELL – “Optimistic” & “Happy” In His Final Days

The mystery behind the shocking death of SOUNDGARDEN singer Chris Cornell continues to get more strange with each passing day. Now today Chris Cornell’s longtime manager weighs in on the tragic situation.

Speaking to CNN, Laffitte said: “Nobody saw this coming, his bandmates didn’t see this coming.

It’s totally out of character for the Chris that I’ve known and worked with for the last ten years.

It’s incredibly bizarre. I have to think that something threw him off the tracks … he must have been out of his right mind.”

By all accounts, however, Chris was in his right mind. People that were around him after the show said he was fine and there was no mention by his wife that he was upset. He was irritated at his crew he said, and took two Ativan pills to help mellow out.

Although a full autopsy and results of toxicology tests are still pending, many are quick to accept the suicide narrative and mainly reject the notion that foul play may have been involved.

Keep in mind, Cornell’s ex-manager (and former wife) Susan Silver has an extremely bitter history with the singer, and Chris was in fear for his family’s well being at one time.

If Chris was so depressed why did he not show any signs? Someone who worked with him so close as Laffitte would have clearly noticed a downward spiral.

Why if he took Ativan before did it now possibly spin him off into a suicidal state? It makes no sense.

Laffitte told CNN that he last spoke to Cornell on the afternoon of his death when they discussed plans for Chris to perform at the 2017 Global Citizens Music Festival this September in New York.

“He was just really excited about this specific idea that we were going to do.”

‘We are going to make real history.’ – Chris Cornell to Ron Laffitte

I would say the last couple of months, he was as optimistic and happy as I can ever recall him…

He was so excited about all these things and a new record we were going to put out in the fall.”

Chris Cornell’s wife, Vicky disputes the initial ruling of ‘suicide by hanging’, as do many friends and fans within the rock industry following the case. His wife does not feel he took his own life. She has gone on the record to say Chris may have taken too much of the anti-anxiety drug Ativan he was prescribed and possibly he had a bad reaction.

She penned an open letter to him this past week.

“We had the time of our lives in the last decade and I’m sorry, my sweet love, that I did not see what happened to you that night. I’m sorry you were alone, and I know that was not you, my sweet Christopher. Your children know that too, so you can rest in peace,” she wrote.

Now that needle marks were supposedly found on his arm, the toxicology should reveal other drugs.

Cornell’s remains were cremated on Tuesday (May 23). A private funeral service for Chris happened today at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. And once the private ceremony concluded, the public was allowed the chance to visit his gravesite.

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