Courtney Love tends to run to the press in spurts. It feels organic most of the time. I wouldn’t even guess that she had a publicist at all if Gothamist hadn’t recently disclosed that Courtney does indeed drag a very nervous one to in-person interviews. Last time we heard from Courtney, she was unironically talking about Miley Cyrus’ crap stylist and Katy Perry’s status as “damaged goods.” Courtney is still talking to promote her upcoming memoir, and she’s given interviews to Fashion magazine and Style.com.
In addition to promoting her book, Courtney is talking up her new and improved manners. She really wants a second chance even though she’s said this all before. Like that time she showed up drunk to an interview while claiming she wants to be trusted again. Or that time she talked up her sobriety while claiming Winona Ryder shoved pills into her mouth. Let’s do this again, shall we? Courtney is always fun:
Courtney’s wishful thinking: “I still get hit on by guys because they want to be cast in that Kurt Cobain biopic that’s been in production for years. I could give you some [actors’] names that would blow your mind, but I am so not sleeping with someone under 38.”
She wants a second chance: “Listen, if [Orange Is The New Black star] Natasha Lyonne can burn down a house and Robert [Downey Jr.] can go to prison for two years, I deserve a second chance. I know there is hope for me.”
On her secret facelift: “Nobody ask me about aging gracefully, pleeease. C’mom, I took advice from Goldie Hawn when she said I should get a facelift at 35!”
Her mystery billionaire: “I keep wanting to write this one chapter about a man that I was very much in love with but I just don’t want to name him. I used pseudonyms like Mr. Cat–this guy who was a billionaire and our relationship ended weird.”
Sex advice from Karl Lagerfeld? “In 2010, I was in the lobby of the Mercer and Karl said ‘What are you doing in a tutu?’ and I said ‘I have a new record out, this is my Gaga look–this is my meat dress’ and he goes ‘You’re never getting laid in a tutu.’ That was when I stopped wearing my kooky clothes.”
Her style is so authentic: “When I was younger and full of p-ss and vinegar and starting my band, I just wore what I wore. There was no contrivance … it was what I found and was my look. It was utilitarian, I could pack fast, and I was extremely, extremely picky about the dresses and shoes and little plastic tiaras and barrettes I wore.”
On her early grunge look: “I was on the prowl constantly for collar-cuff dresses … or, as the goths now like to call it, ‘the Wednesday Addams dress.’ I didn’t have time to use a primer on my skin, so my makeup ran. I could not afford a beauty parlor, so my hair was constantly candyfloss platinum with a brown streak. They were velvet generally, but sometimes they were WWII rayon and looked as though Carole Lombard might have worn it.”
More on Miley and Katy: “Mostly everything is contrived now. Miley Cyrus is not setting any trends – if you can’t start a trend, you’re screwed’ ‘I wonder who decided to put her in white mesh and a pair of pasties and a faux fur? It was dumb and trashy-looking. ‘Miley Cyrus and Katy Perry … It’s artless pop at the end of the day, and, yeah, I have listened to ‘Roar’ and ‘We Can’t Stop’ and I love ‘Wrecking Ball’ for a guilty pleasure, but these are songs written by men mostly for pop tarts.”
She’ll be in two films soon: “These are penance parts, they’re good films and good roles, but they are also to show the community that I show up and don’t take drugs.”
[From Fashion magazine and Style.com]
Oh Courtney. So subtle with her references to a mysterious “Mr. Cat” billionaire when we all know she’s alluding to her romance with Andre Balazs. Just say it!
I would agree with Courtney that Miley looked pretty dumb in white mesh and black pasties at the iHeartRadio festival, but Courtney’s own style is so historically trashy that she has no room to complain. Ever.
The facelift bit is interesting too. Courtney is 49 now, and having a facelift at 35 would account for her “refreshed” state while promoting The People vs. Larry Flynt, give or take a few years. When it comes to Courtney’s recollection, I think a loose timeline is important. What’s also amusing is this photo of Courtney in September. All I can see is Goldie during that crazy lip scene of First Wives Club. Damn.
Photos courtesy of Fashion magazine, Fame/Flynet & Pacific Coast News
Holy photoshop!
My thoughts exactly lol, she hasn’t looked THAT good in a long time.
Ditto
Amazing what it can do, isn’t it?
And even then it’s… not that good .
If Goldie Hawn in “First Wives Club” and Sylvester Stallone’s mother had a child, it would grow up and look just like Courtney in the second picture here.
So they shopped her to look like Madonna on that cover?
I saw Melanie Griffith!
Courtney is a mess, but I like her anyway. Always so entertaining.. But dang, they photoshopped the hell out of that cover..
You wrote exactly how I feel.
I have a lot of nostalgia for Courtney–she’s the original Hot Mess and much better than a lot of today’s Hot Messes because she rarely censors herself.
I agree. I was a grunge kid and thought she was kick-ass…didn’t give a sh-t! I loved her style! I just wish she wasn’t a mother. It would make it easier to continue to accept her crazy. At least her daughter had the good sense to cut her off and out. Always a juicy interview anyways…
Ditto, here. But damn, I’m glad she wasn’t my mother. She shouldn’t be anyone’s mother. But yeah, I like her.
I was actually more a fan of Hole than of Nirvana at the time they were both getting well-known.
I’m with you. I still like her I think because she’s a mess and has not filter. And she’s right about MC and KP of course.
I like her too and was also a child of grunge… also totally agree that she should NEVER ever have been a mother but you know, she’s messed up a lot of us are and we try to deal day to day doing the best we can while being a basket case some days lol. Thank god my life is not on display for everyone to see and at least I’ve learned with age how to handle the crazy days much better so as not to affect the people around me.
I believe it, Goldie has had plastic surgery often and so does most of Hollywood.
I never understand why people believe those in celeb land “age gracefully” , they just don’t. Claiming genetics, good skincare, and staying out of the sun. Please. That is only the tip of the iceberg of what they do to stay young.
Why would you need a facelift at 35??? She must have done a LOT of drugs…
I tend to think Courtney had the face work done, to give her a new shape, to what was once a very round face. Everyone knew she had work done. And had she stopped at that point. She would have looked great now.
But Courtney being true to her nature… kept on screwing with her face and nose. And her lips. Then had to have reconstruction work done, to attempt to undo the bad work.
The thing is… when doing a little altering, is to keep it natural looking as possible. Maybe a little off the nose… or a gentle reshaping of the eyes. Get the jaw line firmed up.
But no… now the thing to do is to go drastic. Get half you nose lobbed off. Have your face shot full or fillers or botox. Have those eye brows lifted way up near your hair line. Then get clown tits to top it all off. And swear that you never had a thing done. 🙂
That’s what I was thinking. Isn’t 35 a little young for a procedure like that?
She got work done to completely alter all her features. “Face-lift” makes it confusing. Within weeks after Kurt died, she got plastic breasts installed. Her story to the press was that she was at a Buddhist retreat in Ithaca. I remember this distinctly. If you look at photos of her before Kurt died, she’s almost unrecognizable. She went on a surgery and spending rampage with his money as soon as he was out of the picture because he would not have signed off on any of that.
I think that she was into heroin when she was younger (maybe still? idk) but it can make your face sort of sag so maybe that’s why she had one so young. Also, she was really trying to be taken seriously as an actress at that time and 35 is old for a female in Hollywood.
Surely “graceful” is one of the last words anyone would ever come up with to describe Courtney.
hmmm. she has a point if you can’t start a trend in pop music you are screwed… Courtney = always full of gems.
I love her!
She is right about pop tarts songs are all written by men to exploit their sex appeal to make money. The music industry is a pimp like Sinead said. Lorde is a good example of a pop star not letting the industry exploit her in an over the top hypersexual way like miley. I hope I never see lorde in a mesh dress with pasties.
If you need to get a face lift at 35, it’s probably because you’ve spent your youth drinking and drugging and your face probably looks like s@#$. That’s pretty damn sad.
I like Courtney Love b/c she’s honest, but at the same time, I just want her to get her s@#$ together and go away.
“When it comes to Courtney’s recollection, I think a loose timeline is important.”
AHAHAH, Bedhead!
Well, she may as well get to fixing the turkey neck since she’s not against cosmetic surgery.
I love Courtney, then, now, and forever.
YES!! I feel the same way. Love, love, love her.
+1,000
Yes yes!
Yep. I grew up with Courtney’s music and her talent is really underrated.
Facelift at thirty-five? Err, maybe if you had a 10 year addiction to meth. She always struck me as incredibly unstable, selfish, and narcissistic person. And I totally get why Francis Bean hates her and wants nothing to do with her. The idea of having rockstar parents sounds cool, but Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain? Oh hell no!
Ughhhh she so annoyinggggg with all this “oh I have so many secrets hush hush don’t you want to know my secrets…. We’ll hush hush you can’t know it’s all just too explosive and the public will just never understand so I will just endlessly allude to all these hush hush factors in my life”. She went on Howard Stern awhile back and pulled this crap. She spends so much time fabricating bullsh**t and alluding to all the amazing unknowns and secrets in her life… She never really says anything except that she CAN’T say anything. I think even Howard was over that act. And honey, it’s no secret to anyone how you treated your only child. Nobody cares about who you slept with when you were 25!
I am a complete unapologetic Courtney Love and Hole fan. Is she nuts, sure. But genuinely talented and eccentric as well; all these pop tart stars wish they could be half that but their acts are manufactured and contrived. Courtney ftw!!!
Yeah her big hot messiness over shadows the fact that she really is and will be recognized years from now as a Rock n’ R icon and legend.
I hope in the future her body of work will be recognized for the brilliance that it is rather than being over shadowed by her kookiness and people’s prejudice against her work.
The album Pretty on the Inside is incredible vocally and lyrically; every scream she uses and every intonation plays into the words and mood of the song. She definitely is the dirtiest blonde 😉
You know, Courtney always kind of rubbed me the wrong way. I found her kind of obnoxious, and for awhile, I thought she killed Kurt.
But I have to say… I’ve come around to her. I find her perspective on the Mileys and the Katys really refreshing. At least Courtney’s authentic.
Did anyone watch that film “Kurt and Courtney”? If so, what did you think? Is it just really biased against Courtney, or is she really an awful person?
Edited to add, I don’t necessarily mean do you think she killed Kurt. I just mean all the other stuff, the way she comes off in general in that film, via what other people report about her.
Ella, I did see that movie. It totally informed my opinion of Courtney, because I was probably 12 or 13 at the time. Nearly two decades later, I don’t think Courtney killed Kurt. I do think she probably helped set him down a drug-addled path, though. Supposedly, Kurt never even drank beer before meeting Courtney, let alone shoot heroin.
I don’t think she’s an awful person. I think she’s an addict and a rock star. But albums like Live Through This and Celebrity Skin almost make up for it.
There’s a great interview with Kurt Cobain sometime around ’92ish where he is clearly high and Courtney hijacks the whole thing and takes Kurt and the interviewer thrift shopping and it is FASCINATING! The early ’90s were so different from today, people wallowed in the pain and weirdness and there was no publicist/studio/media strategist/stylist sheen to any of it, which is how an interviewer at a major publication got to hang around and watch Cobain go almost catatonic from drugs and then have Love turn it completely on its head.
Gotta love that Karl quote: “You’re never getting laid in a tutu.” best part of the interview
I loved that too! So fabulous.
I love this messy broad. I want to hang out with her. Never boring and never contrived.