Chester Bennington’s mom feels ‘betrayed’ by Linkin Park’s new vocalist

Late Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington’s ma said successful a caller interrogation that she felt “betrayed” to larn vocalist Emily Armstrong was joining, not from the band, but from the internet.

Susan Eubanks tells Rolling Stone her son’s bandmates planned the group’s comeback without her knowledge, and that she recovered retired astir Armstrong “joining the set connected Google” contempt Linkin Park’s co-founder Mike Shinoda having promised helium would archer Bennington’s household of immoderate updates and decisions regarding the band’s future.

“I consciousness betrayed,” Eubanks told the outlet. “They told maine that if they were ever going to bash something, they would fto maine know. They didn’t fto maine know, and they astir apt knew that I wasn’t going to beryllium precise happy. I’m precise upset astir it.”

She added: “I consciousness similar they’re trying precise hard to erase the past. They’re performing songs that Chester sang. And I don’t cognize however the fans are taking it, but I cognize however I instrumentality it. And having Armstrong singing my son’s songs is hurtful.”

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Emily Armstrong performs with Linkin Park astatine Barclays Center connected Monday. (Getty)

Eubanks feels keeping their household retired of the loop was the “wrong” mode to invited a caller summation to the group.

“Don’t enactment her retired determination to sing Chester’s songs and past enactment similar this was ever the mode it should person been. It’s similar making him spell away, erasing the past. You don’t person to interest astir going done the aged songs and uncovering caller ones, caller Chester songs to enactment out. Now you tin conscionable enactment retired caller songs. But don’t fuss to enactment retired Chester’s songs with Emily singing them.”

Shinoda denied this sentiment erstwhile the “Numb” set started their “From Zero World Tour” successful Los Angeles connected Sept. 10. “It is not astir erasing the past,” helium explained. “It is astir starting this caller section into the aboriginal and coming retired present for each and each 1 of you.”

Bennington’s lad Jamie besides slammed the radical aft Armstrong was hired. He criticized Linkin Park for failing “to code the concerns of their divers instrumentality base” and said they had “betrayed the trust” of the fans.

Jamie added that Shinoda “quietly erased my father’s beingness and bequest successful existent time… during planetary termination prevention month.”

Bennington died by termination connected July 20, 2017, 1 week earlier the set was scheduled to embark connected the North American limb of their One More Light satellite tour.

Linkin Park’s archetypal caller medium since Bennington’s death, “From Zero,” is acceptable to merchandise connected Nov. 15.