Chris Cornell’s 20-year-old daughter Toni has criticized TMZ for posting images depicting the loss of life scene of former One Course member Liam Payne, evaluating it to the outlet’s protection of her personal father’s passing in 2017.
Following Payne’s loss of life on October seventeenth, TMZ initially printed a purported picture of Payne’s arm and waist after his fall from a resort balcony in Buenos Aires, figuring out the singer along with his tattoos. Whereas the outlet eliminated the picture after receiving widespread criticism, that got here too late for Toni Cornell, who took to her Instagram Tales to voice her disgust with TMZ’s choice to publish the picture within the first place.
Toni wrote the next on her Instagram Tales:
“Within the wake of Liam Payne’s tragic passing, I really feel compelled to talk out in regards to the disgusting, distressing images launched by TMZ together with graphic photographs of his resort room and physique. Having seen these images, I can’t assist however replicate by myself expertise when graphic photographs of my father’s loss of life had been additionally printed by TMZ. As a 12-year-old, I stumbled upon these photos whereas scrolling by means of my iPad, and it was indescribably traumatizing, and one thing I nonetheless carry with me to this present day. 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 ought to be completed. 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 12 months previous son, Bear, may someday come throughout them and undergo precisely as I did. It’s nonetheless surprising to me that the privateness of human beings and their households fail to be revered by the general public and the media, particularly in occasions of human loss, selecting sensationalism over primary human decency. This isn’t how an artist or a father ought to be remembered. I’m sending a lot love and help to Liam’s household and family members throughout this extremely painful time. Relaxation in peace, Liam.”
Chris Cornell sadly took his personal life on the age of 52 on Might 18th, 2017, following a Soundgarden live performance in Detroit. Toni, a singer herself, sang Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” on Good Morning America a number of months later in tribute to each her father and Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington.
See a display screen shot of Toni Cornell’s Instagram story under.
