Cobain’s widow was no more diplomatic with female journalists. After Lynn Hirschberg portrayed her as a “train wreck personality,” (“Strange Love,” Vanity Fair, Sept. 1992), the Hole diva composed "Bring Me the Head of Lynn Hirschberg." Then there was the widely reported incident at the ’95 Academy Awards when she threatened to adjust the journalist’s attitude with Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction Oscar. She had also reportedly promised to make Hirschberg’s colleagues, Victoria Clarke and Britt Collins, “wish you’ve never been born,” later hairdragging Collins from an LA bar, and attacking her with a glass.
In the future, Ms. Love avoided future misunderstandings with writers by laying down ground rules. "If you fuck me over," she told Playboy’s Neal Karlen, "I'll hunt you down and kill you." Added Karlen: “I believed her.”
In 2002 Nirvana survivors Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, filed a petition to have Ms. Love’s sanity tested. The judge turned them down, declaring that such an evaluation would “serve no purpose other than to contribute to a circuslike atmosphere.”
"If someone thinks I'm insane," Courtney had told Karlen, "I'll just fucking pour a beer on their head. I have guns and I punch. They would still think I was insane, but they would think I was violent and insane."
After court-mandated anger management classes, Ms. Love’s contrite performances for law enforcement officials have been compelling. She seems to enjoy the courtroom as much as the stage. Her biographer Melissa Rossi recounts an incident the year after Kurt died, when Courtney, on trial for assaulting two fans, whispered to the prosecutor: “Can I be O.J. and you can play Christopher Darden?”
Days after Kurt was found in the storage room, Hole released Live Through This which included his widow’s composition, “Miss World.”
“I am the girl you know — I lie and lie and lie,” she sang. “I’m Miss World — somebody kill me. Now I’ve made my bed I’ll lie in it — I’ve made my bed I’ll die in it.”
Article comments
1 - Lisa Blaine
Good article but you didn't represent Halperin and Wallace's book, Love and Death, entirely accurately. They didn't just report that Kurt was leaving Courtney and had removed her from his will at the time of his death. They had a tape recording of Courtneys own lawyer, Rosemary Carroll, who told her private investigator that both Kurt and Courtney were in the process of divorcing and that Kurt had drawn up a new will but that he hadn't yet signed it at the time of his death. They even posted the audio tape online. She also told the investigator that the so-called suicide note was "traced or forged" and that she didn't believe Kurt had committed suicide. This was the godmother of Frances Bean Cobain until she aired her suspicions and Courtney replaced her with Drew Barrymore. Tom Grant also had plenty of other evidence for his accusations against Courtney. This was no simple conspiracy theory.
2 - Lisa Blaine
Good article but you didn't represent Halperin and Wallace's book, Love and Death, entirely accurately. They didn't just report that Kurt was leaving Courtney and had removed her from his will at the time of his death. They had a tape recording of Courtneys own lawyer, Rosemary Carroll, who told her private investigator that both Kurt and Courtney were in the process of divorcing and that Kurt had drawn up a new will but that he hadn't yet signed it at the time of his death. They even posted the audio tape online. She also told the investigator that the so-called suicide note was "traced or forged" and that she didn't believe Kurt had committed suicide. Carroll was the godmother of Frances Bean Cobain until she aired her suspicions and Courtney replaced her with Drew Barrymore. Tom Grant also had plenty of other evidence for his accusations that Kurt was murdered. This was no simple conspiracy theory.
3 - The Man from Last Days
Maxs Wallace and Ian Halperin are nothing but fucking liars. Neither he, Wallace or Grant have ANYTHING to back any of this up.
4 - handyguy
Fascinating. But the author's last name doesn't suit him well!
5 - Kahlid
It's an insult to KC to suggest he did not do it to himself