Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington's widow has posted a video online of the rocker laughing with his family just hours before he took his own life.
The 'In the End' singer died aged 41 in July, leaving behind six children from two marriages.
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Talinda Bennington, Chester's wife, released a heartfelt statement to fans a week after his suicide, describing herself as having a shattered soul.
Now, Talinda has released a video of Chester just hours before his death, looking happy and jovial.
She tweeted the video with the message: "This is what depression looked like to us just 36 hours before his death. He loved us so much and we loved him. #f**kdepression #MakeChesterProud".
The footage shows Chester playing a game with children, eating jelly beans that may be sweet or yuck.
He evidently ate a gross one, guessing the flavour was "rotten eggs" before spitting it out in disgust.
Talinda has launched her own social media campaign to fight mental illness since her husband's death and spoke about it with Motley Crue rocker Nikki Sixx on his radio show recently.
"One of those sleepless nights, I was on Twitter and I was reading through just hundreds of condolences to myself and my children. And I started to notice that fans were saying they were hurting, and they didn't know what to do," she said.
"It weighed heavily on my heart, because their words were comforting me. And I just thought to myself, 'You know what? What if we could just talk to each other?'
"And I just thought, 'You know what? I'm gonna use that.' Somebody had tweeted me, this lady had tweeted that her sister had committed suicide in December, and six days later, her other sister committed suicide, and then her mother was dying of cancer. I was, like, 'Oh my gosh.' So I just tweeted out, I said, 'LP family, let's let' - and I put her Twitter name - 'let's her know she's loved and needed.' And that just kind of took off."
- If you wish to talk to someone about mental illness or domestic violence, you can call Lifeline on 0800 543 354, the Depression Helpline on 0800 111 757 or the National Telehealth Service on 1737.
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