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"Chester Bennington has revealed that he considered taking his own life following the breakdown of his first marriage. The Linkin Park frontman opened up about how he battled alcoholism after the end of his nine-year union in 2005. Bennington told Kerrang: &amp;quot;Leaving my wife was the easy part - the difficult part was losing all my money, starting my life over and having to pay the person I didn&amp;#039;t want to be around in the first place. &amp;quot;I felt like my life&amp;#039;s work had been given away. I drank myself to the point where I couldn&amp;#039;t leave the house and I couldn&amp;#039;t function.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;I wanted to kill myself. I could very easily not be the person who&amp;#039;s sitting here right now. I could be dead. It was a horrible, horrible existence.&amp;quot;  The singer has now been drink-free for over four years following a successful stint in rehab. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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