Here’s the thing: Courtney Love is a train wreck. She just is. She’s a rowdy, crazy, outspoken hot mess of a lady. To be fair, she does have her moments, these little bits of time where she’s endearing or lovely or whatever, but that doesn’t change the fact that she’s sort of a tragedy.
To prove my point, I offer you a few quotes from Courtney’s latest interview with Vogue:
On being angry with Kurt Cobain: “Mad? Ya think?! If he came back right now I’d have to kill him, for what he did to us. I’d f*cking kill him. I’d f*ck him, and then I’d kill him.”
More on Kurt: “He tried to kill himself three times!” And then there were the drugs. “He OD’d at least five times. I was the f*cking E.M.S. I was always sticking pins in his balls. I carried around Narcan!”—a drug used to jolt OD-ing heroin users back to life.
On her daughter, Frances Bean: “This is her diary,” Love explains. “I just want you to look at this one page,” which contains a list titled, “Things That Make Me Smile.” Love, distraught, asks Sales, “Why am I not on it? Why doesn’t she put ‘watching old movies with my mom’?” Frances Bean emancipated herself from her mother two years ago, a decision that is clearly still bewildering and hurtful to Love. “All I can feel is how much I love her,” Love tells Sales. “I’d give anything to hear the sound of her heels walking down the hall past my bedroom.”
More on Frances: “There were no drugs in my urine, no drugs in her urine when she was born,” Love says. She laments a number of her parenting failures, such as Frances’s inability to read until she was seven: “It was my fault! I never read to her! … Why didn’t I ever take her to a Broadway show? She f*cking loved those Broadway musicals!” There were times when, Love says, her daughter was teased by other children; “They called her ‘crack baby.’”
On money: “We could never find our money!” she says. “We had $135,000 in our bank account. They said that if he would go do Lollapalooza he would make $11 million… Do you think Kurt would have killed himself if he had known he had $54 million?” That figure is based on research done by Love’s Twitter Army, her online fans and believers who are determined to get to the bottom of “the fraud.”
On people: “They won’t be happy till I’m dead!” exclaims Love, of no one in particular.
Oh, Courtney, girl. Please, honey, just pull it together. This all sounds way too sad, sister.
I dealt with her over the phone in a professional setting, and it really is sad. She’s a smart lady, but very, very disturbed emotionally. Too bad she can’t (or won’t) get the help she needs.
Kurt wouldn’t have killed himself if he knew they actually had 54 million instead of 135,000????????????
Should I off myself because I haven’t had work in a month and am broke???? Her logic would say so…
I don’t think money makes a difference when a soul is that wrecked… I hate to spring platitudes, but some people with no cash manage to be happy, or at least optimistic…
Shit… Talk about a different reality… Sometimes I know what the French peasants must have felt like watching the total excess of Louis XIV and Marie-Antoinette before the French revolution…
I am constantly flummoxed by reality TV stars who make more in an episode than I make in a year… or even two.
Out of touch MUCH???!!!!???
Still, because I spent much of my early life suffering from dire depression, I still feel for her. Her childhood sucked. She was a rejected child… And those wounds don’t heal just like that.