Cornell was born Christopher John Boyle on July 20, 1964, in Seattle, Washington, where he grew up. His parents are Edward F. Boyle, an Irish Catholic pharmacist, and Karen Boyle, an accountant with a Jewish background and a self-proclaimed psychic. While his parents divorced when he was a teenager, he and his siblings took his mother’s maiden name, Cornell, as their surname.
Cornell was one of six children, with two older brothers and three younger sisters. He went to Christ the King, a Catholic elementary school, where he sang the 1960s anti-war song “One Tin Soldier” in front of a crowd for the first time.
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Toni and Christopher are their two children. Cornell converted to Greek Orthodox Christianity as a result of his marriage.
He went to Shorewood High School before dropping out. Cornell’s mother pulled him and his sister out of Catholic school when he was in seventh grade, claiming they were about to be expelled for being too inquisitive.
In a 1994 interview, he described the incident as follows: “A religion like that is not meant to be questioned. You’ll notice discrepancies in organized religion since you’re a young person with natural curiosity and half a brain.
We both made it apparent in class that we didn’t comprehend it. ‘Explain this to me.’ And because they couldn’t, we started causing a slew of issues.”
