Jared Leto urges anyone contemplating suicide to get help

Jared Leto has delivered a speech fondly remembering late Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington at the MTV Video Music Awards.

Leto, an actor and lead singer of the band 30 Seconds to Mars, says Bennington was a close friend who showed him that it was possible to pursue one’s dreams and still be kind and caring.

Leto says of Bennington, “I see his face, which was always smiling. I think about his heart, which he wore on his sleeve.”

The actor-singer also spoke about late Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell, who was a close friend of Bennington. Cornell died in May and Bennington died in July. Both men’s deaths were determined by authorities to be suicides.

Leto urged anyone contemplating suicide to seek immediate help.

His homage to Bennington ended with a video clip that featured part of Bennington and Linkin Park’s 2010 VMAs performance outside the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.