As Tone Deaf reported this morning, Soundgarden-Pearl Jam supergroup Temple of the Dog, who originally formed to honour the memory of late Mother Love Bone frontman Andrew Wood, reunited over the weekend to play the first of a string of sold-out shows.

Grunge fans the world over were delighted by the footage of Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell and co working their way through a selection of Temple of the Dog and Mother Love Bone tunes, as well as an eclectic mix of covers.

But as AlternativeNation reports, Xana La Fuente, Andrew Wood’s former girlfriend, is not all that chuffed about Cornell, the reunion, his effort on the Mother Love Bone renditions, or even Temple of the Dog to begin with.

La Fuente has penned a post via her Xanaland blog, which was sparked by seeing footage of Cornell forgetting the lyrics to Mother Love Bone’s ‘Stargazer’. La Fuente goes on to criticise the way the reunion has been put together and Cornell’s conduct over the years.

“Every day lately I get messages regarding this tour,” she writes. “People asking if I have extra tickets. Asking to interview me and ‘talk about my feelings’. Well I am sick to death of all of it and just want it and The Mustache with his shitty lame rendition of a song about ME to GO AWAY.”

“It’s bad enough he never gave me credit for partial lyrics I wrote in the chorus to ‘Times of Trouble’. I have literal proof of this in copyrighted poems I was sent and that were sent to me by a friend in prison. He’s now a very successful writer and magazine owner.”

“Let’s think about why the Temple of the Dog songs were written. Were they not written to console me and others over the loss of Andy? Chris gave me a cassette of songs and told me ‘These are for you about Andy.'”

“Then Jeff and Soney heard them when I played them at Kelly and Peggy’s home where Jerry Cantrell and I were living. They asked Chris about the songs and went on to record them, with the (broken) promise that all the money would go to charity. That of course, never happened.”

“And people wonder why I call him a chode,” she continues. “It’s bad enough he took all MY BELONGINGS (the law says possession is 9/10th’s of the law) Andy’s lyric books, and all his stuff were in an apt. that only I paid the rent and all the other bills on, he had not worked for years.”

“I was the one working for years to make sure he could stay home and write. I was the one who didn’t drink with him, didn’t smoke pot with him and certainly did not shoot heroin with him and in fact tried to get all of these guys including Chris, Stone, Jeff, the ‘management’ and his ‘family’ to LISTEN TO ME and they did not.”

“I was the one who had to come home and find him overdosed. That stuff was my property and yes, we should have made copies of all the music and the lyrics and so on but the originals were mine. Everything he wore, including his Laker’s Jersey I paid for.”

“Chris had no right to give all this stuff to his family. All they did was turn around and sell it. Don’t get me started on all the lies and promises about money and royalties.”

“Whatever happened after Andy died, and whatever Chris is judging me for, is pretty f***ed up considering some stories I’ve heard about him,” she writes elsewhere. “Maybe he’s back on the cough syrup or taking oxys again himself. How dare anyone judge ME for anything that happened after Andy died.”

“I did not steal from Chris, I did not say anything bad about any of them. I was not even in Seattle and the life I was living was a sad horrible life but I was hurting myself more than anyone.”

“This rendition of a song written for me is not only a slap in the face to me, but it’s a slap in the face to Andy. He wrote it for me, so hey Mustache, if your going to sing it-sing it right or don’t sing it at all!”

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