Courtney Love: I’m done supporting Kurt Cobain’s family

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Courtney Love has granted yet another extensive interview, this time to Spin magazine. By the way, the reason Courtney has been talking so much is because she’s promoting Hole’s new album, their first in five years. On Monday, we had an excerpt of Courtney’s talk at the Oxford Student Union – that was where she discussed her love of Greek myths, feminism, Rilke and how Kurt Cobain’s suicide “wasn’t cool.” For this interview (an excerpt of which is at Spin’s site), Courtney talks in more detail about how Frances (The Bean) went to live with Kurt’s family, and how Courtney thinks they just want to get their hands on The Bean’s money:

Courtney Love has never been shy about speaking her mind, and the rocker is characteristically unabashed in a new interview with Spin magazine.

When asked about daughter Frances Bean, 17, who currently has a restraining order against her mom, Love points a finger at the family of her late husband Kurt Cobain.

“Those snarly-ass O’Connors want checks,” she says in Spin slated to hit newsstands Feb. 23, referring to her late husband’s family. “I’m through supporting their asses.”

Cobain’s mother, Wendy O’Connor and his younger sister, Kimberly, currently have legal, medical and financial authority over the teenager. Despite losing legal control of Frances Bean, Love, 45, says she’s focused on making her new album, Nobody’s Daughter, a success.

“One time, Frances was being mean and said, ‘What are you going to do if the record fails?’ ” Love reveals. “Well, Frances, it can’t fail because I love it, and I’ve worked really hard to make sure that I love it.”

But, the magazine reports, Love is not as gruff as she sometimes seems and tears up at the mention of her daughter, saying, “I’m lost in a [expletive] nightmare maze.”

The singer revealed her feelings about her daughter on Twitter last week, writing, “My daughter has been kidnapped and i am going to take it? Of course i was beyond angry, despondent suicidal in every way.”

However, in the Spin interview, she references suicide again while discussing drugs. “I don’t take anything that isn’t prescribed to me,” she says. “Cocaine, narcotics – those would be tantamount to suicide, and I’m not suicidal.”

[From People]

I suppose it would be convenient to think of Courtney as a victim – a victim of her husband’s suicide, a victim of her late husband’s family’s money-hungry ways, a victim of her teenage daughter’s machinations and power plays. But in case you do feel sorry for Courtney, Spin Magazine has one of the most perfect summations on the Courtney’s life lately: “During the past decade, sundry cracked-out antics, including an OxyContin OD in front of her daughter, fueled macabre speculation regarding Love’s mental state. And just recently, a Los Angeles court awarded guardianship of 17-year-old Frances Bean to Love’s late husband Kurt Cobain’s mother, Wendy O’Connor, and sister, Kimberly Dawn Cobain, amid rumors of domestic abuse. Love’s coping mechanism is, as ever, pure manic energy, which is not to be confused with productivity.” Oh really?!? Well played, Spin.

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Spin cover and additional photos by Daniel Jackson for Spin, courtesy of Spin online and Just Jared.

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  1. Snarf says:

    There are trainwrecks and then there are trainwrecks…

  2. gg says:

    Good shots of her for a change, but she needs to get back in her tree.

  3. bella says:

    I don’t know how she was before Kurt died, but I truly think the cheese slipped off her cracker when he did. Some people are just not equipped to cope with the loss of their soulmate (and I think they WERE soulmates), thus her erratic, self-destructive behaviour since. However, I think, when a child is involved, one must do their best to persevere and go on for that child. Maybe this IS her best, in which case I do feel terribly sorry, both for her and Francis.

  4. sickofit says:

    id like to know the planet where she lives on seriously

  5. meme says:

    Kurt would still be here if it wasn’t for this cracked out hobag. But part of me will always love Courtney for the CD LIVE THROUGH THIS.

  6. Jessica says:

    These are GREAT pics!

  7. Trillion says:

    Courtney was awful well before Kurt died – lying, stealing, exploiting. Her history of this behavior is long and well established.

  8. Stephie says:

    She looks lovely in these photos.

  9. lola lola says:

    Why can’t someone with all those advantages get out of her own way? She has made her life into the 2 penny drama it is–no excuses, no one to blame but herself! Get over the whining and take care of your kid. And lastly, please shut up while you’re doing it!

  10. Dolkite says:

    If anyone cares, Frances got her middle name after Courtney had a sonogram…they thought she looked like a bean in the womb.

    Her first name comes from Frances McKee of the Vaselines.

  11. GatsbyGal says:

    @Bella – “I don’t know how she was before Kurt died, but I truly think the cheese slipped off her cracker when he did.”

    Thank you so much for introducing that phrase to me. I’m so using that, you are awesome.

  12. anoneemouse says:

    Pathetic waste of air. It was never her money to begin with since it was all inheritance from her husband. I would commit suicide too if she was my spouse!

  13. snapdragon says:

    i manage a small bookstore in seattle, and i remember courtney & kurt from way back. she is so airbrushed in these photos – in real life her skin is terrible in a druggy, scabby kind of way. anyway, she used to come in and buy lots of books, especially children’s books. she was pleasant enough, but she usually looked pretty out of it, including one day i found her sprawled on the floor, surrounded by art books. both she & kurt were well-known here for passing out in public, being drunk, cracked out, etc. sadly, this was even when she was pregnant. something tells me she hasn’t changed much.

  14. Samantha says:

    I think she is an undiagnosed bipolar.

  15. monkey says:

    @bella – the cheese missed the cracker all together on this one!
    she looks like an olsen in these pictures! wild!

  16. bella says:

    @GatsbyGal – Thank you. Enjoy!

  17. uSheep says:

    she’s not bipolar..she definitly has borderline personality disorder, and maybe post traumatic stress disorder. her childhood wasn’t pretty..her father dropped acid and her parents abandoned her and she was shuffled around and lived in like 8 different facilities. things that manifest themselves from bpd is drug addiction, promiscuity, eating disorders, and a general sense of recklessness. it’s a shame, because she really has no one to blame for herself. she got in her own way. she had a promising acting career, and a great music career, but pissed it all away. she’s a genious, but a fucking moron. she really had no choice and i think she tried her hardest to take care of frances, but how can you take care of someone else if you can’t even take care of herself. courtney really would have been better if she had burned out, but she just faded away. i’ll still buy her album, but i have no doubt it’ll flop..except for the few dedicated hole fans, no one cares about her.

  18. Aussie Mama says:

    Ahhh Photoshop….

  19. Faith says:

    I want to vomit everytime I read a rearranged article even somewhat in her favor. I recently watched the documentary “Curt and Courtney” (found it on Netflicks) and it just fueled my hatred and confirmed that she had something to do with his death. Sure he had drugs in his system when he was found dead.. hell, they were both addicts.. but he had so much that it wouldnt have been possible to even pull a trigger. She even hired a private investigator (to find him in his own house) to make it seem she was concerned. She has threatened anyone that will talk, and because of curts money and fame MTV and eveyone else had to always do what she said. Her daughter has just had enough of her shit and is getting to an age to be smart about her own decisions I’m sure. I hope her album bombs and she crawls back in the plastic drug den that she came from.

    Just sayin..

  20. Alexis says:

    Same flower child style, different face…

  21. trashaddict says:

    “I’m done supporting Kurt Cobain’s family, I gotta save the money for my glorious drug habit”

  22. Statler says:

    Meme- Courtney didn’t write Live Through This, Kurt did. Sorry to kill the one thing you liked about her (not really though).

  23. Aussie Mama says:

    Whoa, did Courtney have my posts removed!!!
    See the power she weilds!
    Must have said something truthful.
    FAITH, spot on kiddo.

  24. TRVLBUG529 says:

    “Cheese slipped off the cracker”! I love it! LMAO

  25. LostOcean says:

    I’d love to see Courtney Love show everybody up one day. The woman’s music is worth so much more than what the media gives her credit for.

  26. Haley says:

    If I was her I would be really depressed. The man she married killed himself and now she’s getting her daughter taken away from her. Gosh that sucks!