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Chester Bennington

Chester Charles Bennington was born on March 20, 1976, in Phoenix, Arizona. The youngest child of four, his mother, Susan, was a nurse; his father, Lee, a police detective. The family moved home around the state a lot. Later on, after he found fame, Chester would reveal that, from the age of seven, he was the victim of sexual assault at the hands of an older boy that would last for six years, but stay with him for a lifetime. His parents’ divorce when Chester was 11 left him in the custody of his father, but feeling like he had no-one in the world at all. “Abandoned” by his mother and unable to connect with an emotionally unstable father whose attentions and time were consumed by his work, Chester withdrew into himself. While he was “knocked around like rag doll” at Greenway High School, where he had previously shown promise as an athlete, in his bedroom he found comfort in drawing, poetry and, soon enough, music. He learned the piano, found people to idolise in the form of Depeche Mode, Led Zeppelin and Stone Temple Pilots, and soon enough started his first forays into music with his first band, Grey Daze. 

Yet while his new bandmates gave the lonely young man “the first time I felt I had a connection with anybody”, it also enabled him to fast-track far unhealthier relationships with drink and drugs. By 16, Chester would be blocking out his emotional traumas with a mix of LSD, marijuana, cocaine, speed and meth. Other nights, he’d simply drink until blackout. At 17, when he moved back in with his mother, she was so shocked by her son’s appearance, which she likened to a concentration camp detainee, that she locked him in the house in a bid to save him from himself.