Courtney Love, 41, has once again slithered through the jailhouse bars (although this time it took a full tub of Crisco - note pic).
She was sentenced Friday to six months in a rehab center for slipping off the druggy wagon while on probation for previous drug offenses and going postal on a woman with a whiskey bottle and a lit candle in her ex-boyfriend's house in April of '04.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rand Rubin sentenced Love to the rehab center, where she has already been living for a month, rather than jail, noting that she had made an "excellent first step" toward recovery. "I'm very pleased with your progress," the judge also said.
Love will be confined to the center, subject to random drug tests, and the judge extended her probation until March 2007. The former Hole singer and widow of Kurt Cobain thanked the judge. Love's attorney Howard Weitzman said she "fully intends to make good on her promise to be clean and sober, and I'm hoping she'll be able to do that."
Hope yes, but I wouldn't bet the farm on it at this point.
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— go to most recent comments1 - Matthew T. Sussman
She's still mourning the death of her hubby, and has to pick up the drug-using slack left behind by him.
2 - Experiments in Living
Leave courtney alone.... anyone who has been through what she has, is immune from critism as far as i am concerned.
When guys go through something like this (pete dorethy, sid from the sex pistols) they are martyred - when a girl does they are treated as if they are the lowest of the low...
people also seem to forgot that when you are an addict - you cant just change suddenly... even if you want to
She deserves empathy, not mocking
3 - Eric Olsen
if there was any mocking here it was pretty damn gentle - I have always wished her well and hoped for the best, but I wonder if someone with less notoriety (and money) would get so many chances.
4 - Experiments in Living
I agree Eric, you werent scathing in what you said...
" Hope yes, but I wouldn't bet the farm on it at this point. "
it was just that bit.. it struck me as perhaps not taking into account the realities of fighting an addiction.
I disagree with you when say that ' she keeps getting chances ' - her last album flopped.. despite being a lot better then Mellisa Auf De Maurs.. i sometimes get the feeling that if she had been born a different gender, shed be seen as an Elliot Smith type charactor.... but not - u cant pull that of if you are a girl
5 - Eric Olsen
I'm not sure about that kind of double-standard: the reputations of Judy Garland and Marilyn Monroe don't seem to have suffered particularly. I think it is her flamboyance and wild swings (literally and figuratively) that people react to
6 - Matthew T. Sussman
The moral of the story: Don't battle an addiction in public.
7 - Eric Olsen
good point Matt
8 - Experiments in Living
" I think it is her flamboyance and wild swings (literally and figuratively) that people react to "
But again - when oasis do it, its rock and roll... when courtney does it, shes clearly loosing it !
I cant say that I know that much about judy garland or marylin monroe > ?
But they are both filmstars.. and I think the criteria by which they are judged is different - im also not sure if u can compare people who are dead with people who are alive in terms of how people percieve them...
when people die - u have this tendency to gloss over things - it would be interesting to know what the press made of them at the time - but even then the press were less intrusive when they were stars, so you cant really compare
but even the
9 - Experiments in Living
" The moral of the story: Don't battle an addiction in public. "
Does she choose to do that ? and even if she does, is that really a bad thing - lots of people are addicted to drugs, and if there was a useful media commentry on it, lots of people would benefit from that
unfortunatly what you get, is a media obbsessed with coming across as all moral - hence the ' junkie courtney ' headlines
the problem is not with courtney, but with the way the media choose to portray and report on her
10 - Bob A. Booey
Has anyone seen that picture of Frances Bean that ran in the papers a couple of weeks ago with Courtney?
It's hard to believe she's like almost an adult now and that it's been that long. She's 13 now and who can imagine that crap she's been through growing up in such an unstable home where there were constant rumors of her being taken away from her mother her entire life?
That is all.
11 - Matthew T. Sussman
Does she choose to do that?
No, she was kidnapped and forced at gunpoint to appear on Comedy Central's roast of Pam Anderson. And she was paid in crystal meth.
12 - Bob A. Booey
She has her dad's distant, haunted eyes already. Do a Google search for "Frances Bean" and you'll see what I mean.
It must be even weirder than growing up as Lisa Marie Presley to be Frances Bean Cobain and going to school with a bunch of normal kids.
That is all.
13 - REv
I can only pray for her safety and ability to overcome the demons raging inside of her.
14 - Bob A. Booey
Well, who knows if she has demons? She's still young enough that if she gets a stable, loving home environment (whether that's with Courtney, other relatives, or grandparents), she may not have any and may just be a really well-adjusted, bright, talented, sweet kid.
That is all.
15 - Experiments in Living
" No, she was kidnapped and forced at gunpoint to appear on Comedy Central's roast of Pam Anderson. And she was paid in crystal meth "
with respect i already pre empted that - when i said that regardless of whether she is ' an attention whore ' - its the medias refusal to debate in adult terms the nature of an addiction that is the real issue here.....
16 - Matthew T. Sussman
its the medias refusal to debate in adult terms the nature of an addiction that is the real issue here
Donny Deutsch had a segment on one of his shows this week about crystal meth addiction.
The media may not talk about it through her, but they shouldn't. To call her a train wreck would make actual train wrecks say "I resent that!"
Making Love was the posterchild of drug rehab is like making Anna Nicole Smith the posterchild of weight loss.
Look at Rush Limbaugh and George Carlin. They admitted addications, went into rehab, and came out clean. That's how you do it. Not in, then out, then back in, than back out, then stabbing someone with a whiskey bottle and releasing an album.
If -- in the immortal words of Dean Wormer -- "fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life," then blonde, high and untalented is no way to go through a high-profile life.
17 - Experiments in Living
" If -- in the immortal words of Dean Wormer -- "fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life," then blonde, high and untalented is no way to go through a high-profile life. "
She cant help being blonde… lots of famous people / highly intelligent people have spent their entire adult life being high, and still been incredibly successful. And she isn’t untalented " the album ‘ live through this ’ is a testament to that
" Donny Deutsch had a segment on one of his shows this week about crystal meth addiction. "
I live in the uk and I have no idea who Donny is. But any attempt to try and argue that the media isnt out of step with the day to day reality of drug use is just flawed..
The debate is always staged in ridiculously moral terms.. it ignores the fact that for many, drug use is as ordinary as having cornflakes for breakfast - and it comes across as being irrelevant.
" Look at Rush Limbaugh and George Carlin. They admitted addictions, went into rehab, and came out clean. That's how you do it. Not in, then out, then back in, than back out, then stabbing someone with a whiskey bottle and releasing an album. "
I think they are from slightly different backgrounds to Courtney.. Its not just her wanting to stop using drugs, its the people she surrounds herself with, her entire way of life, being dependent - that isn’t something which u cant just get sorted by checking into a rehab centre...
It takes time - and when so many rehab centres are still centred around the 12 Steps concept and asking people to " believe in a Higher Power / turn their life over to one " is it any wonder that such programs fail so many ? by focusing on the kind of 'success stories' that you mention - the media is not doing what it should be, which is picking up on the flawed and outdated practises still used in many of them
18 - Scott Butki
I blogged about this earlier, saying:
"Personally I think this is good news. Maybe now Love can find her talent again and put out an album as good as Live Through This instead of the junk she released - let alone injected and snorted - since then."
19 - Experiments in Living
" instead of the junk she released - let alone injected and snorted - since then. "
you forgot about 'celberity skin'
but other then that - fine
20 - Eric Olsen
understanding, empathy, sympathy are not the same things as enabling: certainly Courtney has t otake primary responsibility for her own actions and decisions, everyone else is supposed to
21 - Michael Hunt
how anyone can have compassion for a junkie whore is just indicative of how weak and pathetic we've become as a society.
I pray that the widow cobain is found OD'd in a bathroom somewhere so we wouldn't have to be subjected to the news surrounding the events in her wasted life.
22 - Experiments in Living
" understanding, empathy, sympathy are not the same things as enabling: certainly Courtney has t otake primary responsibility for her own actions and decisions, everyone else is supposed to "
addiction is a mental health issue - ie it isnt as straight forward as that
" how anyone can have compassion for a junkie whore is just indicative of how weak and pathetic we've become as a society. "
are u a republican by any chance ?
" I pray that the widow cobain is found OD'd in a bathroom somewhere so we wouldn't have to be subjected to the news surrounding the events in her wasted life. "
in her wasted life, she has achieved far more then most of us ever will... shes reached and positivly influenced millions of people - and im sure even you wouldnt wish a child to loose her mother
23 - Temple Stark
now she's a whore?
24 - Experiments in Living
" now she's a whore? "
I dont think she'd see that as a a bad thing... sleeping around is great ;)
Whats with all this fake inherited sin !
25 - Flash
Courtney's battle with addiction is heightened by her celebrity and she opens herself to extreme loathing with her denial. Her embarrassing performance on the Pam Anderson roast was made more so by her constant assertions that she had been clean/sober for a year. "If you're not on drugs," Kimmel shot back at one point, "you've got real problems." Denial, of course, is both a major symptom of the disease and obstacle to treatment.
I like Courtney, but it's always uncomfortable to watch a train wreck.
Ignorance, misunderstanding and prejudices surrounding addiction certainly doesn't help the addicts, their families or others negatively impacted by this very common disease. And the entertainment industry hasn't done much to help the situation - especially considering the prevalence of the disease there.