Rockstars, Drugs and Alcohol

I always figured that my faovrite bands were pretty clean when it came to drugs and alcohol. But I was proven wrong (at least of one band).

The band that I thought put drugs in the past, was Linkin Park. I just recently found out that Chester Bennington got over a drug addiction. I knew that Chester had a drug addiction in his teens, but I never guessed that he got back into drugs and alcohol. I was really upset to hear this. It started in 2005 when he divorsed his wife. But I have not been trying to think about it too much because Chester says he is sober now. I just really really hope that it doesn't happen again. I don't want to see him unhappy and I don't want him to be like most of the rockstars. I want him to stand out and show that you can overcome it and that you be an amazing musician and not have too be on drugs or alcohol.

This is one of the reasons I love Alice Cooper so much. He was an alcoholic and he knew he needed help so he got it and he has been sober for 25 years. I wish more rockstars could do this. I wish John Entwistle would have done it. :'(

But I hope this is the end of Chester's addictions. I don't want to wake up one morning and hear he had an overdose or something. I would be devestated.

I also hate the my friend was right. I did see LP as being angels (for the most part) but I was wrong. Although, I have read about 2 of the 6 members doing drugs, and these were from LP sites. Just two of them and both are sober now. Rob Bourdon was the other one. I would have NEVER guessed that. But his addictions happened in high school as well as Chester's first addiction. So, 4/6th of the band is as like I thought.

I'm not sure why I have to get into band's personal lives. Most of the time I am upset by it (and a lot of it happened in the past and is over now). I just think very highly of my favorite rockstars and I want them to be happy. I mean they make me happy (most of the time). When you have addictions like that you are not happy. Chester even talked about suicide. I don't know how I would have taken news of his suicide, had it happened, especially since I didn't know he was having a problem in the first place.

I know Chester will never read this but if I could I would love to tell him that even though those dark years helped him write songs for this solo album and even for LP, that I would much rather him be sober than doing drugs to write music. I have a feeling his music would still be amazing.