New Details About Chris Cornell’s Suicide Have Emerged

During their phone conversation leading up to his last moments before committing suicide in a Detroit hotel room, Chris Cornell’s wife said he was babbling incoherently and ranting about “blowing” his voice the night before.

TMZ reports his wife Vicky recalled the conversation to friends and family, saying she believed he’d done drugs other than Ativan, anti-anxiety meds, he claimed to have took.

He complained about the show over the phone, slurring out, “They f*cked up again. They had three days to fix my in-ears and I was getting static. I couldn’t hear. I blew my voice, I blew my voice.” He also said he was “really angry and I just took two Ativan. I’m really pissed and I had to calm myself down.”

“I need to know what you took. It doesn’t sound like two Ativan. It sounds like you took something else,” she told him.

That’s when she called his bodyguard Martin Kirsten in a panic to check in on the singer. He was able to knock down the door but was unable to get through the bathroom door, so Vicky called the hotel screaming that Chris was having a heart attack.

She was still on the phone with Martin when he broke through the second door to find Chris had hanged himself.

He also had fresh track marks.

The family denies he intentionally killed himself, saying he only did so because he was under the influence of drugs.