Chris Cornell’s daughter Toni has described information protection of former One Path member Liam Payne’s loss of life as “disgusting” and “sensationalist”.
Payne, 31, died this week after falling from the balcony of a resort room in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Toni says information website TMZ’s determination to publish images of Payne’s resort room and his physique was “distressing” and that it took her again to when her father died in 2017 and TMZ revealed images of his physique.
In an announcement posted through an Instagram story, Toni Cornell says: “Within the wake of Liam Payne’s tragic passing, I really feel compelled to talk out concerning the disgusting, distressing images launched by TMZ together with graphic pictures of his resort room and physique.
“Having seen these images, I can not assist however replicate alone expertise when graphic pictures of my father’s loss of life have been additionally revealed by TMZ.
“As a 12-year-old, I stumbled upon these footage whereas scrolling by way of my iPad, and it was indescribably traumatizing, and one thing I nonetheless carry with me to at the present time. TMZ nonetheless has not chosen to have the decency, seven years later, to take away these images from the web, and it’s one thing I imagine needs to be accomplished.
“Whereas the photographs of Liam have since been taken down, it means nothing. They need to by no means have been put up within the first place, and it breaks my coronary heart to assume that his 7-year-old son, Bear, may sooner or later come throughout them and undergo precisely as I did.
“It’s nonetheless stunning to me that the privateness of human beings and their households fail to be revered by the general public and the media, particularly in instances of human loss, selecting sensationalism over fundamental human decency. This is not how an artist or a father needs to be remembered.
“I am sending a lot love and assist to Liam’s household and family members throughout this extremely painful time. Relaxation in peace, Liam”.
Former Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell died whereas on tour in Detroit in Could, 2017. His loss of life was dominated as a suicide. He was 52.
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