--- title: Jared Leto Shared a Touching Tribute to Chester Bennington description: The 30 Seconds to Mars frontman and actor reflected on the late Linkin Park singer during the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night. canonical: https://time.com/4917919/jared-leto-chester-bennington-vma/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-28T01:31:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:51.111Z og:title: Jared Leto Shared a Touching Tribute to Chester Bennington og:description: The 30 Seconds to Mars frontman introduced a video of the late singer og:url: https://time.com/4917919/jared-leto-chester-bennington-vma/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9b75f9bdef2157d0/6988db6b97cdff2c116b2358/mtv-video-music-awards-62.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: MTV-VMAS-2017 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jared Leto Shared a Touching Tribute to Chester Bennington twitter:description: The 30 Seconds to Mars frontman introduced a video of the late singer twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9b75f9bdef2157d0/6988db6b97cdff2c116b2358/mtv-video-music-awards-62.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jared Leto Gave a Touching Tribute to 'Ferocious, Delicate' Chester Bennington > Sponsored content. 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Kevin Winter—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 28, 2017 1:31 AM UTC In an emotional moment during Sunday night’s MTV [Video Music Awards](http://time.com/4914128/mtv-video-music-awards-2017-winners/), 30 Seconds to Mars frontman and [actor Jared Leto](http://time.com/4917820/jared-leto-mtv-vmas-cape/?iid=sr-link1) paid tribute to the late [Chester Bennington](http://time.com/4870933/linkin-park-chester-bennington-death/) of Linkin Park. “I remember his heart, which he wore on his sleeve,” Leto said. “And I remember his voice, at once ferocious and delicate. That voice will live forever.” Before requesting that the audience get to their feet to watch a 2010 performance of Linkin Park at that year’s VMAs, Leto added another note: “If there is anyone out there watching this who feels like there is no out, hear me now: you are not alone,” he said. “I promise you this: the absolute biggest breakthroughs in life lie just beyond the darkest days.” Bennington, who was 41, took his own life at the end of July. His friend and fellow rock star [Chris Cornell](http://time.com/4887615/toni-cornell-chris-cornell-tribute/) of Audioslave, who Leto also mentioned in his tribute, died by suicide in late May. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4917919/jared-leto-chester-bennington-vma/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4917919/jared-leto-chester-bennington-vma/"},"headline":"Jared Leto Gave a Touching Tribute to 'Ferocious, Delicate' Chester Bennington","datePublished":"2017-08-28T01:31:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:46:51.111Z","description":"The 30 Seconds to Mars frontman and actor reflected on the late Linkin Park singer during the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night.","url":"https://time.com/4917919/jared-leto-chester-bennington-vma/","keywords":["Newsfeed"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9b75f9bdef2157d0/6988db6b97cdff2c116b2358/mtv-video-music-awards-62.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9b75f9bdef2157d0/6988db6b97cdff2c116b2358/mtv-video-music-awards-62.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"MTV-VMAS-2017","caption":"2017 MTV Video Music Awards - Fixed Show","creditText":"Kevin Winter—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4917919/jared-leto-chester-bennington-vma/","name":"Jared Leto Gave a Touching Tribute to 'Ferocious, Delicate' Chester Bennington"}}]}] ```