Chester Bennington, the 41 year-old lead singer of the rock band Linkin Park, was found dead on Thursday.
The coroner's office reportedly said the singer hanged himself from a bedroom door in his home near Los Angeles.
Bennington had been open about his troubled life, including an introduction to smoking pot after his parents divorced when he was 11, which escalated to cocaine and methamphetamine use.
He also suffered sexual abuse as a child.
Linkin Park enjoyed cross-over success with the 2004 hit Numb/Encore which combined their song Numb with rapper Jay-Z's Encore.
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