Vicky Cornell has released a statement about her husband, Chris Cornell, the Soundgarden and Audioslave singer who died suddenly on May 17. Cornell's death has been ruled a suicide by hanging, according to Spin, but Vicky is hoping that "further medical reports will provide additional details."

In her statement, Vicky seemed to dispute that her husband wanted to end his own life:

Chris’s death is a loss that escapes words and has created an emptiness in my heart that will never be filled. As everyone who knew him commented, Chris was a devoted father and husband. He was my best friend. His world revolved around his family first and of course, his music, second. He flew home for Mother’s Day to spend time with our family. He flew out mid-day Wednesday, the day of the show, after spending time with the children. When we spoke before the show, we discussed plans for a vacation over Memorial Day and other things we wanted to do.

Further on in the statement, Vicky Cornell wrote that her husband slurred his words when she talked to him after Soundgarden's show in Detroit on Wednesday night prior to his death. According to her, Chris Cornell sounded "different," and told her that he may have taken an extra Ativan (an anti-anxiety medication) or two. In response, Vicky requested that hotel security check on him. She continued:

"What happened is inexplicable and I am hopeful that further medical reports will provide additional details. I know that he loved our children and he would not hurt them by intentionally taking his own life.”

You can read Vicky Cornell's statement in its entirety at Entertainment Weekly.

A Thursday report from the New York Timesdetails all the ways that the former FBI director, James Comey, tried to maintain a professional distance from Donald Trump. One strategy was camouflage.

Comey was later fired by Trump, and reports that Trump may have pressured him to drop an investigation into former national security advisor Michael Flynn preceded the appointment of a special prosecutor into the Trump-Russia case.

But before he was canned, Comey's worst nightmare was appearing too "friendly" with the president. According to a friend of Comey's, Benjamin Wittes, one of his tactics to avoid the president's affection included actually hiding himself in the curtains at the White House.

Here's an anecdote from a "ceremony to honor law enforcement" hosted by Mr. Trump, that Mr. Comey reluctantly attended. Via the New York Times:

The ceremony occurred in the Blue Room of the White House, where many senior law enforcement officials — including the Secret Service director — had gathered. Mr. Comey — who is 6 feet 8 inches tall and was wearing a dark blue suit that day – told Mr. Wittes that he tried to blend in with the blue curtains in the back of the room, in the hopes that Mr. Trump would not spot him and call him out.

It didn't work. Although Comey avoided hugging Trump, according to HuffPo, the president "appeared to blow him a kiss." And now that Twitter's gotten wind of Comey's failed curtains strategy, it's even more humiliating.

James Comey: master of disguise.

UPDATED: Anthony Weiner has appeared in court, and read the following statement, as reported by NBC New York.

Disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner will plead guilty to "transferring obscene materials to a minor, the New York Times.

Weiner, whose propensity to take and share photos of his penis lead him to resign from Congress in 2011, is appearing in a Manhattan federal court on Friday. He will plead guilty to sending sexually explicit messages to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina.

The Times explains that the charge carries a potential sentence of zero to 10 years in prison, but as a result of the plea, he could register as a sex offender and potentially avoid prison.

One of the obscene pictures discovered in this exchange with the minor was Anthony Weiner sexting a picture of his crotch lying in bed next to his four-year-old son.

Sexting a minor, though allegedly consensual, was the last straw for his wife, Huma Abedin, who left him. The last time we heard, back in January, Athony Weiner moved in with his mom. And now he might have to move into jail.

And now the countdown is on to see if President Donald Trump will tweet about this.

Hey, we can give you a million reasons why you shouldn't eat human meat right now (illegal, disgusting, probably high-calorie), but this video by AsapSCIENCE about cannibalism outlines the horrifying things that would happen to your body if you were to eat only human flesh.

Yes, only human flesh. No side salads on those plates.

Check it out:

Hey, we probably don't have to tell you this, but don't do it! Don't eat people! Don't even think about eating people! Apparently, it doesn't even taste good. Oh, and another downside beside the taste? There's a good chance you will go crazy and die. That probably counts for something, too.

Guess you will just have to wait for the vegan alternative to come out if you are really that curious about cannibalism.

A high school senior was threatened with arrest and then suspended for 10 days after wearing an off-the-shoulder shirt to school, WHAS reports. The student, Summer, an honor roll student with a 4.4 GPA at Hickory Ridge High School in in Charlotte, NC, was also banned from senior activities, including graduation. Now she's worried that this incident might affect the full scholarship she received to college.

On Wednesday, Summer's principal approached her during lunch and asked if she had a jacket she could put on over the off-the-shoulder shirt, which is prohibited by the school's dress code. According to WHAS, she didn't have one, but borrowed one from a friend. However, the principal still insisted that Summer go to the control room (I have no idea what a control room is) to change her clothes.

WHAS reports that Summer has had a contentious relationship with her high school principal over the past four years, so Summer's mother says she's asked that the school administrators call her before disciplining her daughter. Summer said that she wouldn't go to the control room until her mother was called.

Both the principal and Summer tried to reach her mother, to no avail. After lunch period ended, Summer and the other students went to the auditorium. The principal came in and asked everyone to leave except Summer. Summer told WHAS, "[The School Resource Officer] was within five feet of me, he had his hand on his gun. [The principal] said 'I'm gonna give you an ultimatum. We have tried to call your mother. You either come with me to the control room to change your shirt or we will arrest you." Fortunately, Summer's mother called back at that moment.

Summer did accompany the principal to the control room, where she was notified that she was suspended for 10 days and not allowed to attend graduation ceremonies. The official reason given was "insubordination." Summer claims that the principal is still considering expelling her.

Summer told WHAS, "It's just sad because I worked so hard for four years to walk across that stage. We have drug dealers walking across that stage, we have sex offenders walking across that stage and then the 4.4 student who showed her shoulders can't." She added, "This is my life, I'm on a pre-med track. A full ride means so much and that is on the line right now."

5. Bella Hadid, because she made a wardrobe malfunction glamorous.

Thanks to Bella Hadid, you ain't cool UNLESS you flash your undies on the red carpet.

Hadid, of the terrifyingly gorgeous Hadid sisters, was walking the red carpet at opening night of the Cannes Film Festival, when either a gust of wind a la Marilyn Monroe or a too-wide stance flashed her undies to the ground. Anyone else would have been embarrassed, but the supermodel was just like, "Yes, this is my underwear. You're welcome."

4. Anna Faris and Allison Janney, because they decided women's health was more important than trophies.

The stars of Mom are making the Hollywood elite look good, putting their money where their mouths are. In lieu of an Emmy "For Your Consideration" campaign that would send dumb pamphlets and other swag to Television Academy voters, stars Anna Faris, Allison Janney, and Mom co-creator/executive producer Chuck Lorre announced that they will be giving the money to Planned Parenthood.

As Business Insider explains, the U.S. Senate is considering legislation that would de-fund the women's health centers, denying low-income women to things like cancer screenings and birth control, the Mom crew is spearheading a donation campaign and making a $250,000 donation of their own. Thanks, Mom!

Maybe the mitzvah can also win them Emmys...because now we're all celebrating Mom.

3. People who only like the marshmallows in Lucky Charms, because their dreams could come true.

In our busy world, time is of the essence. Ain't nobody got time to sit with a box of Lucky Charms and pick out the marshmallows, which is, of course, what we all do.

This week, Lucky the Leprechaun announced that in 10,000 random boxes are winning promo codes that get you a free box of Marshmallow Only Lucky Charms.

Finally, a cereal that gets the pesky cereal out of the way!

2. James Comey, because he brought the receipts.

When you come for the Comey, you best not miss.

The FBI Director fired by President Donald Trump revealed that he took meticulous notes on their interactions, because duh, he was in the FBI. One of the memos, as reported by The New York Times, says that in the Oval Office on Valentine's Day (V-Day has nothing to do with it, but it adds some extra flavor), Trump asked Comey to end the FBI investigation of Michael Flynn.

"I hope you can let this go," the president said.

Many scholars and lawmakers are calling this obstruction of justice, which just so happens to be one of the articles of impeachment for ne President Richard Nixon.

This is just one of many, possibly incriminating memos the FBI has down.

Comey got the goods.

1. The 78% of Americans who want an independent Russia investigation.

An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll published on May 14 showed that 78% (that's a lot!!) of Americans wanted a probe into Russia's interference with the 2016 election conducted outside of Congress. On Wednesday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed a special counsel to dive deep into the case and follow the rubles.

Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller, the former FBI director, who is widely respected and by many as the right man for the job. Wow, things might actually get done, and truth might actually come out!

Mueller will have the power to pursue criminal charges, so thoughts and prayers are with the lawyers of White House staffers, from the interns up.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson just shared the story of how he lost his virginity because let's be honest, we were all wondering. It's a doozie. But not because of how awkward he was in the sack or any technical difficulties he encountered. The actor and former pro-wrestler says he was pretty great at sex, even the first time, he shared in a new interview with Elle.(We'd have to check with the other party involved to confirm this, but it's probably true, because he's The Rock.)

The reporter asked Johnson point blank about losing his virginity (yay journalism!) and added: "would you have done anything differently?" And 2016's Sexiest Man Alive responded:

Um…I wouldn't have been so good at it? I mean, where do you go after that.… [Laughs]

But despite his sex skills, even The Rock's virginity loss story ended up being a "complete nightmare" just like everyone else's.

Because he continued:

That's the A side to the answer. Now the B side to that is—I would not have been in a park. I would have preferred not to have been caught by the cops.

Ummmmm.

Johnson, 45, confirmed that yes, this "really happened." He explained:

We shouldn't have been in the park in the first place. All of a sudden, a big spotlight came on us. Bang. You hear the cop roll down the window and say, "Ma'am, are you okay? Will you come to the car?" She gets dressed, comes to the car. They say, "Are you being attacked?" She says, "No, that's my boyfriend." It was a complete nightmare. [Laughs] Some stories are beautiful, but mine was not.

Well that escalated quickly.

This story actually sounds pretty traumatizing. Poor The Rock! But luckily he's all grown up now and the owner of multiple million dollar mansions so he no longer has to have sex in a car in a park. But even if he did, and even if the cops showed up again, they'd for sure leave him alone once they realized he's THE ROCK. Maybe they'd even leave a nice note on his car apologizing for the interruption many years before.

Good news, summer is just around the corner! Bad news, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention just announced that outbreaks of a parasitic diarrhea-causing infection linked to pools and water playgrounds has doubled in the last two years.

According to CNN, a parasite called Cryptosporidium, or "Crypto" for short, is more common than ever, and the reason for its spread is really, really disgusting.

The parasite spreads through the feces of an infected person, and could cause up to three weeks of "watery diarrhea, stomach cramps, nausea and vomiting." Those symptoms could lead to a much more serious issue: dehydration.

In 2016, 32 recorded outbreaks of Crypto were reported in the U.S. That's double the 16 reported cases in 2014.

Unfortunately, Crypto is also notoriously difficult to get rid of. Michele Hlavsa, chief of the CDC's Healthy Swimming Program, told CNN that "Crypto is extremely hard to kill with normal levels of chlorine," and the best way to prevent the spread of the parasite is to be careful and take precautions when it comes to summer fun activities, especially if they involve young children and water.

So here is how to prevent turning into a poop geyser for three weeks:

• While swimming, be careful not to swallow any water.
• Take extra precautions at public pools and playgrounds with water features.
• If you have kids, make sure you are changing their diapers often, and, to put it delicately, that they are "all clean" after using the restroom.
• Don't let kids who are sick with diarrhea swim in the first place.
• Last and not least, don't pee in the pool, you sicko.

Katy Perry released a new song called "Swish Swish" from her upcoming album Witness at midnight on Thursday, and immediately the internet flew into a frenzy. Not just because, hooray, new Katy Perry song!, but because the lyrics to the song, which features Nicki Minaj, had everyone wondering: Is this a track slamming Taylor Swift? And the answer is almost certainly yes.

There are a lot of reasons why people have come to this conclusion, the first and most obvious being that Katy Perry and Taylor Swift have a long-running, well-known feud, about which NME has written a comprehensive timeline. Catch up on it, if you need to. We'll wait.

Okay, ready? Another reason are all the clues in the aforementioned lyrics:

A tiger
Don't lose no sleep
Don't need opinions
From a shellfish or a sheep.
Don't you come for me
No, not today.
You're calculated
I got your number
'Cause you're a joker
And I'm a courtside killer queen
And you will kiss the ring
You best believe

Katy Perry is definitely the tiger in this tale, because of her song "Roar." And the sheep she mentions could very well be Taylor Swift, whom Perry once subtweeted using references to both Mean Girls and the Bible, calling someone (ahem) "the Regina George in sheep's clothing."

That tweet was just a day after a Rolling Stone interview with Taylor in which she talked about her feud with Perry (without naming her directly).

The part that says "You're calculated" might also be about Swift, who has been called "calculating" in the past (and hates it, which, of course almost anyone would), according to a Chuck Klosterman interview in GQ.

Later in the song, Katy Perry sings this verse:

Your game is tired
You should retire
You're 'bout cute as
An old coupon expired
And karma's not a liar
She keeps receipts

This could easily be about those infamous "receipts" kept by Kim Kardashian. The receipts in that case were of the phone call Kardashian secretly recorded between her husband, Kanye West, and Swift. In the call, Swift learns about some lyrics she later claimed she didn't know about. Kardashian eventually released the audio, calling Swift out.

Another interesting tidbit: the Kanye album called Pablo was originally going to be calledSwish. And the Kanye/Taylor Swift feud is one of the most legendary celebrity feuds in recent memory. (Here's Cosmopolitan's timeline of that whole disaster.)

Then there's Nicki Minaj, who contributed a verse to "Swish Swish," who also had a very public beef with Swift. Let me refresh your memory: in 2015, Minaj tweeted about her record-breaking video for "Anaconda" not being nominated for an MTV Video Music Award. Swift made Minaj's grievance all about her, tweeting back at Minaj that she (Minaj) was "pit[ting] women against each other."

Katy Perry's response to that whole drama was this tweet:

So it seems preeeetty likely that "Swish Swish" (which even sounds like "Swift") is about Taylor Swift. The case is solved, internet. WE DID IT! Even more proof that these ladies, who obviously don't like each other, don't like each other.

Get ready for your mid-Friday cry. A teenaged girl from Tennessee was too distraught to go prom dress shopping this year after her mom recently passed away. So she decided to wear the same dress her mom wore to prom nearly two decades ago.

17-year-old Taylor Branum lost her mom in a tragic car accident back in March that also injured her 10-year-old brother, InsideEdition.com reports. So prom dress shopping, which she had planned to do with her mom, was the last thing on her mind.

Then she realized the long, black gown her mom wore to prom with her dad in 1998 was still sitting in her mom's closet. "I pulled it out and I tried it on," she told InsideEdition. "I cried a bit. I know it sounds crazy, but I could feel her with me."

She had the dress altered to fit her shorter frame, and wore it to her prom at David Crockett High School earlier this month. The dress moved her dad to tears, she said: "He cried and said I was gorgeous."

You can watch the sweet and heartbreaking video here:

Here's Taylor wearing the dress in 2017, compared to her mom wearing the dress in 1998:

They both look amazing—so amazing that we'll forgive Taylor's dad for his haircut (it was technically still the '90s).

Even better, Taylor said wearing the dress helped her feel like her mom was there with her:

It just meant so much more to me you know, just having that piece of her. It made my prom night even better — I swear it did — because you know prom night’s a big night, you want your mom there and I felt like she was there. It helped a lot, dealing with that, coping with it.

There is no shame in crying at your desk at work, okay people? NO SHAME.

A Minnesota yearbook quote about President Donald Trump is making headlines and causing controversy online. It's not hard to see why.

"I would like to behead him," wrote a sophomore student in response to the "How do you feel about [Trump]" prompt. "I do not like him."

According to the local CBS affiliate, Brainerd Public Schools released a statement regarding the quote in their high school yearbook, saying they were "unaware of the students' statements," they "do not support" or endorse them, and "the administration is currently investigating how this occurred."

Meanwhile, Scott Baio—who you might remember as one of Trump's few celebrity endorsers—shared the photo on Twitter and ignited the fury of his followers.

"This is in a high school yearbook," wrote the indignant Joanie Loves Chachi actor. He then tagged Donald Trump, the FBI, Sean Hannity, and Kellyanne Conway.

It'd surprise few to see this story lead Sean Hannity's next show on Fox. In fact, some of Baio's Twitter supporters are so angry they're calling for the student to receive a visit from the secret service.

If you've ever struggled with a junk food addition, then you'll probably identify with Uncle Fat, a morbidly obese Bangkok monkey who was recently captured and put on a diet after images of him went viral on social media.

Uncle Fat is three times the weight of a normal macaque due to the fact that he's been gorging on soda and snacks given to him (or left behind by) tourists. As leader of his pack, he also had other monkeys fetch him his favorite foods, which he then sometimes redistributed among the group. A noble oligarch indeed.

Upon reading about Uncle Fat, many Twitter users saw a glimpse of themselves.

Others, meanwhile, didn't see the big deal—why not embrace the fat?

For now, at least, Uncle Fat will be kept on a strict diet of fruit, veggies, and lean protein. Once he reaches a healthier weight, his rescuers will consider setting him free again, at which point he faces the greatest danger of all: a junk food relapse. Stay strong, you little scamp.

The inflatable T-Rex has long been a staple of viral internet culture—whether it's someone dominating the American Ninja Warrior course in the costume or a bride wearing it to her wedding. But with great dinosaur outfits come great responsibility, as a bizarre accident in Charleston, South Carolina proved.

It seems that a woman wearing the familiar T-Rex getup encountered a horse-drawn carriage tour of the city, and the horses did not like what they saw. In the ensuing chaos, the carriage driver fell and had to be taken to the hospital.

Once the dust had settled, it appeared that the horses were unharmed. Carriage driver Van Sturgeon, however, had broken a bone in his left foot.

In the end, it was revealed that a woman had been in the T-Rex suit—and had approached the horses while making growling sounds, despite Sturgeon's warning that it would startle the horses. She turned herself into the police Friday morning and was released after they charged her with disorderly conduct and wearing a mask or disguise. It's still unclear exactly why she would have done this, but hey, we all have our hobbies.

The Starburst brand isn't paying me to say this, but I will anyway: It's a pretty good candy. Probably the only aggravating thing about them is that they come individually wrapped, and you have to open them one by one—which is why we eventually got the unwrapped "mini" version.

Maybe, though, we've been missing out on a use for all those wrappers: Clothes! On Facebook, Artist Emily Seilhamer shared the adorable story of how she created a tropical dress from 10,000 Starburst wrappers she and her family collected over four years. She even met and first bonded with her husband over a pack of the candy—which is also his favorite.

"With the use of elastic thread," Seilhamer explained, "I was able to sew the links together into a 'fabric' to create the dress. My husband and I met when he offered me a pack of Starburst a few years before the project started. As his favorite candy he began to save grocery bags full of wrappers for me… The dress had a nice spot next to the gift table at our wedding almost 2 years ago!"

If this is what she does with candy wrappers, I wonder what she could make with all the empty bags of chips in my car right now.

Makeup vlogger Sukhi Mann posted a video of her using floss not in her mouth, but a bit above it.

A proposed DIY blackhead removal technique, Mann picked up some disposable floss picks and got scraping—and it's cringier than your average Dr. Pimple Popper video.

If the flossing wasn't enough "repurposed dental hygiene product fun" for you, Mann keeps running with the theme and uses mouthwash on her skin.

Allure reached out to dermatologist, Dr. Ava Shamban, and asked her if this dentistry-meets-dermatology trend is good for the skin.

According to Dr. Shamban, it isn't as bad as it looks.

"Since she's using it to essentially scrape the skin, it looks like it would be okay [to replicate] as long as you're not using the [flosser stick] in a sawing motion, cutting into the skin," Shamban told Allure. "The only drawback would be that the floss is clean, but not sterile."

While the face flossing is kind of approved, apparently the mouthwash is not good for the skin. Shamban encourages aspiring derma-dentists to check the ingredients to make sure the mouthwash doesn't have menthol, which could cause an allergic reaction.

But just in case, maybe buy face cleanser? They usually sell it in the aisle next to the mouthwash.

There's such a thing as being in the right place at the right time, and baby, this man was there, then. When Fox 10 Phoenix went live to a scene in Scottsdale after a car had crashed into a building, they noticed a cargo-shorted man dancing awkwardly in one of their aerial shots. Looking like the weirdest 13-year-old at a bar mitzvah, he continued to perform some robot-like moves while periodically checking his phone to see if he was still on the air.

The man turned out to be Bryan Amann, who was working in a nearby office and ran up to the rooftop next door when he realized Fox 10 was streaming footage from the site. Then it was a simple matter of getting the chopper's attention. He has since promised to buy the web domain scottsdaledancingman.com.

Follow your fame, bro.

Gwyneth Paltrow is a bit busy these days, crisscrossing the country and preparing for a Wellness Summit put on by Goop, her often-mocked lifestyle brand. She even poked fun at herself with a parody video where she talked about rolling around on $11,000 grass imported "from the base of Mount Vesuvius."

On Friday, the actress and icon took a brief pause in her hectic schedule to celebrate a successful (if exhausting) week of work—though even then, she was still on a plane bound for Seattle, where she would be hosting a Goop event at Nordstrom. "I may be tired from the week and not have had time for makeup but that won't stop me from hitting #nordstromseattle HARD today to celebrate our @goop pop in," she wrote. "Book signing from 2-4pm, come see me!"

No makeup? No problem.

Glamor is as glamor does—and Paltrow looks great anytime.

Nail biting is gross. It's also fun (sorry but it is) and insanely hard to quit. But this viral Facebook post from a Louisiana mom may just scare your fingers right out of your mouth.

When Sara Guidry noticed something "odd" and "white" in her son Kale's gums, she tackled it with tweezers, because finding and extracting disgusting things is a big part of a mom's job. And tbh moms deserve a medal for this.

Inside Guidry's son's mouth, she found—you've probably guessed it by now—a fingernail. Good news: at least it was his own fingernail. Bad news: the fingernail wasn't alone.

In total, Guidry says she pulled 27 fingernails from her son's gums. TWENTY-SEVEN. She documented the whole gory process in two videos, which she shared on Facebook as a warning to other parents not to let their kids bit their nails. And if this doesn't stop someone from nail-biting, nothing will:

One video not enough for you? Here's the second one:

In an accompanying Facebook post, Guidry wrote:

Kale has always kept us on our toes. Looking in Kale's mouth I see something white in his gums. I get a tweezer and pull it. It looked like a finger nail. I continued to pull 4 more out. I then search his mouth and find another area. I pulled around 27 out of the second spot. YES 27! The dentist has never seen anything like this. We figured out that Kale bites his nails and plays with them in his mouth. He pushes them up towards his pallet. The nail penetrates the skin and goes into a pocket between the baby teeth and permanent teeth. Don't let your children bite their nails! If you can handle the disgust check out the video.

Guidry's videos have quickly wracked up millions of views and nearly 200,000 shares in just three days, so clearly word is spreading about this horrifying potential nail biting side effect.

And at least one person said she had the same thing happen:

Sorry that this cautionary tale about nail-biting probably stressed you out and being stressed makes you want to bite your nails.