She said her producer, the person who also saw the singer that fateful night, was killed.

The actress turned singer is doing her level best to bring some justice for the dead A list singer.

For the first time ever, in a published interview this week, she said what I first revealed to you nearly three years ago.

She said her producer, the person who also saw the singer that fateful night, was killed.

It would be nice to know if the interviewer has more information they received or just the quote and never asked a follow up question.

Taylor Momsen

Chris Cornell

The Pretty Reckless: Transforming Pain, Moving Forward

When Taylor Momsen opened her bleary eyes in Columbus, Ohio on the morning of the massive Rock on the Range Festival, she felt like she had woken up from a dream come true. The night before, The Pretty Reckless had wrapped up a run sharing festival stages with iconic Seattle post-grunge icons Soundgarden.

In Detroit the night before, as gear was being torn down and loaded into trucks, the lithe rocker had gone over to Chris Cornell’s car to say goodnight and thank him for the opportunity to open for one of her biggest influences. The sold-out show at the Fox Theater before 5,000 shrieking Soundgarden fans served as a crescendo for the seasoned opening band. Momsen, lead guitarist Ben Phillips, drummer Jamie Perkins and bassist Mark Damon had spent weeks witnessing Cornell & Co. create new heights almost every night and were thrilled to watch from the wings.

It doesn’t get any better than that, especially for a young woman determined to make her way in rock & roll on her own, not because of the sizzle of her role on Gossip Girl or her career as a (super) model and muse to Chanel’s Karl Lagerfeld. Intent on taking her visceral squall into arenas by virtue of velocity, songcraft and a raging yowl, The Pretty Reckless had sidestepped the obvious on-ramps and built their career the old-fashioned way: playing to the people out on the road.

That morning in Columbus, however, everything changed.

“When I got out of my bunk, opened the door to the front lounge, everyone was staring at their phones with tears running down their faces,” Momsen remembers of the harsh light of that morning after. “Then they all looked at me and realized I didn’t know.”

What she didn’t know was devastating. The night before, Cornell, rock’s greatest modern era vocalist and songwriter, had left the Fox Theater and returned to his Detroit hotel. Shortly after his arrival, his bodyguard discovered Cornell unresponsive on the floor of the bathroom. Ultimately ruled suicide, Cornell was pronounced dead at the scene.

“Ben was the one who told me,” she says, her tone growing strained. “But I couldn’t accept it. I remember saying, ‘Prove this is real.’ We’d all been together a few hours ago. This couldn’t be true.” – Read the rest here