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DANCE music superstar Avicii committed suicide by slashing himself with a shard of glass, the celebrity gossip site TMZ reported Tuesday.

A representative for the Swedish DJ did not reply to requests for comment. But his family earlier insinuated that Avicii had killed himself.

“He really struggled with

thoughts about meanings, life, happiness,” his family said in an open letter last Thursday. “He could not go on any longer. He wanted to fi nd peace.”

TMZ, quoting unnamed sources, said that Avicii infl icted intensive bleeding by cutting himself with glass, possibly from a bottle.

The 28-year-old whose real

name was Tim Bergling was found dead April 20 while on vacation in Oman.

Police in the Gulf sultanate said that there was no indica-tion of foul play.

Avicii had long spoken of his problems with alcoholism and his struggles as an introvert in adapting to the hard-partying DJ lifestyle.

He stunned fans in 2016 by retiring from touring at the age of just 26, although he later returned to the studio.

Avicii was one of the fi rst DJs to bring electronic dance music into the mainstream, fi lling festivals and winning radio airplay as he collaborated with artists including Madonna and Coldplay. (SD-Agencies)

DJ Avicii death a suicide: Report

Grande says album will ‘bring light’ARIANA GRANDE has said she wants to “bring light” to our lives with her new album in her fi rst interview since last year’s Man-chester attack.

She didn’t address the bomb-ing directly but appeared to get emotional when U.S. TV host Jimmy Fallon discussed it.

The pop star did announce her new album “Sweetener,” which is due this summer.

She said it is “about bring-ing light to a situation, or to someone’s life, or somebody else who brings light to your life, or sweetening the situation.”

Speaking on Fallon’s NBC talk show, the 24-year-old singer did not say any more about the inspi-rations behind it.

It was the host who addressed the events of last May, when 22 people died in a bombing after

her concert at Manchester Arena.

She returned to the city to stage the One Love concert less than two weeks later.

Explaining that he hadn’t seen the singer since that time, Fallon said, “I know it’s tough for everybody, tough for fans and tough for you, and I know you haven’t done any inter-views, and I understand that.

“I just wanted to say thank you so much for coming on the show and for being strong and for entertaining and for showing up and going back to Manchester and doing a benefi t. I thought that was awesome of you. I just think you’re so strong and so cool.”

Grande looked like she was welling up and just replied, “Thanks. Thank you.”

Fallon then quoted part of a message the singer wrote in the days after the attack, “We won’t let hate win. Our response to this violence must be to come closer together, to help each other, to love more, to sing louder, and to live more kindly and generously than we did before.”

Fallon added: “Thank you, pal.” (SD-Agencies)

U.S. rapper Kanye West has said the enslavement of African Americans over centuries may have been a “choice.”

“When you hear about slavery for 400 years ... for 400 years? That sounds like a choice,” he said during an appearance on entertainment site TMZ.

“We’re mentally imprisoned,” the star added. He recently made headlines for his support of President Trump.

Black people were forc-ibly brought from Africa to the United States during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries and sold as slaves.

West later tweeted that his comments Tuesday had been misinterpreted and that he “brought up the 400 years point because we can’t be mentally imprisoned for another 400 years.”

To the interviewers at TMZ, West said that “right now we’re choosing to be enslaved,” which provoked an angry response from a black member of staff at the company, Van Lathan.

Lathan said the rapper’s com-ments appeared to be made with an “absence of thought.”

“You’re entitled to believe whatever you want, but there is fact and real-world, real-life consequence behind everything that you just said,” he added as the star stood still stroking his chin.

“We have to deal with the mar-ginalization that has come from the 400 years of slavery that you said for our people was a choice,” Lathan continued, adding, “I’m appalled, and brother I am unbe-lievably hurt by the fact that you have morphed into something to me that isn’t real.”

In the TMZ footage, West refers to Trump as “my boy” and says that the president is “one of rap’s favorite people.”

His comments sparked a backlash on social media with some Twitter users suggesting the rapper should revisit the history books.

It comes just days after West released a song defending his support for Trump, who he has insisted is “fi ghting for the people.”

West has courted controversy with his support for Trump and conservative commentators like Scott Adams and Candace Owens, who has spoken out against the Black Lives Matter movement. (SD-Agencies)

Kanye West slavery comment sparks outcry

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