Criss described Charles as his greatest pal rising up.
“I liked my brother a lot. And I do know he liked me. Proper out of the womb, he was my prompt, ready-made greatest pal. And from that second on, we completely liked deliver collectively. Charles & Darren have been an inseparable, dynamic duo. We shared practically every little thing and regarded out for one another. He was my confidant and companion as we found the world collectively,” Criss wrote. “As we acquired older, music grew to become considered one of our best bonds.”
The previous “Glee” star wrote lovingly about his brother and mentioned that “the entire fantastic, inspiring, constructive issues about his life far outshine the circumstances by which it got here to an finish.”
He described the final a number of years of his brother’s life as “more and more troublesome” and defined that “he had struggled to search out stability throughout an unlucky tough patch in his life.”
Including, “Regardless of our very vocal issues about his well-being, and his protestations that every little thing was effective, it is crushing to say now that Chuck clearly had had a extreme melancholy welling up in him for a while, a melancholy that was solely worsened by a lifelong wrestle he had with expressing his emotions — a risks mixture solely outmatched by his all-too-incredible capacity to hide it. Not simply from the world at giant, however most tragically from the individuals who have been closest to him.”
Criss inspired anybody who’s “feeling misplaced or hopeless” to hunt assist.