Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder recently shared how he is coping with the loss of his close friend Chris Cornell , who died in 2017.
The Howard Stern Show radio program , the artist reveals, “I had to be in denial in some way. I didn’t feel like I even had a choice. I was just terrified of where I would go if I allowed myself to feel what I needed to feel or what I was instinctively wanting to feel or how dark I felt I would go,” he says.
“And because I hadn’t seen him often in the last ten years, except maybe four or five times, and usually at a show or something, I still kind of haven’t dealt with it. I’ll get stronger as time goes on,” says Eddie, who recalls his friendship with the Soundgarden frontman offstage , “I hung out with him outside the band more than even with the other guys in the band, and I didn’t know that many people in Seattle. So, we’d go on crazy hiking adventures, or bike in the mountains, or chase the dog in the rain while drinking some crappy beer, and it was cool.”
“And it had nothing to do with being around other people in music or being around some kind of life in LA [Los Angeles]. It was just cool. Like, wow, this is what a, quote-free, rock star is, this is what he’s doing, he’s chasing a dog in the rain with his friend on a Saturday night with a bale of Schmidt ?”, Eddie recalls.
Check out the interview below:
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