In a new People Magazine article, Vicky Cornell questioned why her late husband Chris Cornell did not leave a note.
“If my husband was going to go, he would have left a note. He would have told his children, ‘I love you.’”
“He wouldn’t go out like that, “ she says later in the article. “They know he never would have left them like that,” she says. “Chris was impaired.” For now she’s focused on helping her children, particularly her daughter Toni, cope. “They were attached at the hip,” she says. “They know he never would have left them like that. That’s what’s keeping them as strong as they are.”
As for her own feelings of guilt and grief, “sometimes it feels like you’re never going to have another normal day again,” she says. “My brother asked me where we are going to live now and I said I don’t know.” If there is a small balm, it is knowing that telling her family’s story may help others in pain. “Addiction is a disease,” she says fighting back tears. “I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure other children don’t have to cry like mine have cried.”
Vicky Cornell has been claiming since her husband’s death that the prescription drug Ativan played a role.
