Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love
Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love met in 1989. Nirvana moved back and forth in Portland, Oregon. Perhaps it was love at first sight. The couple did not see each other for two years, they met again only in 1991. They both realized that the sympathy was still mutual and they decided to hang out together. But so many other relationships in rock 'n' roll, constant gigs and as Nirvana became more and more popular during 1991, the two saw very little of each other. But they maintained their love by talking frequently on the phone and trying to see each other as often as they could. Nothing could stop their love for each other. In December 1991, the couple decided to marry. Some believe the marriage pushed Kourtney because she saw the increasing popularity of Nirvana's Nevermind album and wanted a piece of the pie.
On February 24th, 1992, the couple got married at a cliff in Hawaii. Kurt was in green pajamas and Courtney was in an old dress that once belonged to Seattle Actress Frances Farmer. Kurt didn't want it to be a big ceremony as he was afraid he would cry. Chris Novoselic and his wife Shelly weren't present at the ceremony as the two couples had just had an argument over Chris and Shelley blaming Kourtney for influencing Kurt, more specifically heroin use. They cleared things up after, but Kurt's best friend didn't attend his wedding. By the way, Kurt was crying. Nirvana was due to play Saturday Night Live for the first time (they played it twice). Courtney found out she was pregnant. The media immediately decided that it would highlight the couple's drug use. After her pregnancy was revealed, Kourtney went a little off drugs; Kurt, however, is not. Courtney later became the victim of the worst tabloid article ever written about the couple; Vanity Fair's Lynn Hirshberg decided that she would annoy Courtney apart by writing a lousy article regarding her and heroin use. She decided to make their lives hell on earth. "Back off, everyone smokes during pregnancy," Courtney justified.
Franziska (Francis) Bean Cobain was born on August 18th, 1992. The baby was away from Kurt and Kourtney for some time, although the baby felt well and was as healthy as it could be. The couple spent most of their income that year fighting the media to keep Frances safe. They bought a house for her before Christmas 1992. Frances had a very happy childhood. Kurt and Courtney took great care of her. But the couple's reputation began to decline. They also started to fight a lot more often, almost every day. But at the same time, Kurt said that the existence of Courtney and Francis makes him happy.
On March 1st, 1994, Nirvana played their last concert in Munich, Germany. The rest of the European tour has been cancelled. Later that month, Kurt was hospitalized in Rome after a failed suicide attempt (sleeping pills and champagne). "It was an accident" excused Geffen, but those who knew Kurt knew it wasn't. On April 4th, Kurt escaped from a drug treatment clinic in Los Angeles and flew home to Seattle. For unknown reasons, probably depression and stomach pains for several years, he decided to kill himself with a shotgun. Hell on earth was over, millions of fans, wife, child, and friends were left behind. The semi-automatic Remington M-11 20 ended the life of one of the biggest stars in modern rock music. Whether or not Kurt actually shot himself may not be accurate. Tom Grant is still trying to convince us that it wasn't a suicide but a murder arranged by Courtney Love herself. Whether this is true or not is unknown. But here's what Courtney had to say after Kurt's death:
"Imagine: You are young. And you have been unlucky all your life. And suddenly, finally, you meet a man with whom you feel good. Nothing similar happened to you before. And you are in love. And you believe that this is for life. And Here's your reward - he's handsome. And he's rich. And he's a rock star. And he's good at making love. And he wants to have kids, and you want to. And he understands everything you tell him, and finishes your sentences. He is lazy, but he is spiritual, and he is talented. He wants to be enlightened. And you even have a place where you can live together. He is perfect in everything. The only happiness you will ever have.. ..And then you lose it all..."
Great love stories: Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. Scandals haunted this sweet couple from the very beginning of their romance. A gloomy and depressive drug addict with a fine mental organization and a wild girl who never mind to break away to the fullest. Kurt Cobain has millions of fans around the world. Courtney Love has millions of Kurt Cobain and a reputation so tarnished that even squeeze it. Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. The most beautiful love story in the history of rock. One evening, Kourtney went to the Dharma Bums concert at the Satyricon. Nirvana was the opening act. Behind his good looks - stringy blond hair, growling vocals and touring grime - the vocalist was surprisingly handsome - the kind of guy you could hang on a keychain bracelet. However, she was unimpressed by their concert and dismissed them as "love rockers from Olympia". When Kurt Cobain walked past her table after the concert, he glared at her, and Courtney looked back at him. He pulled up a chair and poured himself a beer from her pitcher, those crazy blue Charlie Manson eyes still focused on her. “I thought she looked like Nancy Spungen,” Kurt later said. - She looked like a classic punk rock dude. I actually felt that she attracted me. Maybe he wanted to fuck her that night, but she left." In the winter of 1990, Courtney began long phone conversations with Dave Grohl, the Nirvana drummer and one of Jennifer Finch's pals. During one of their conversations, Courtney let slip that she had a crush on Kurt, whom she nicknamed "Pixie Meat"*. Dave told Courtney that Kurt liked her too, and that Kurt was suffering from a recent breakup with his girlfriend, Bikini Kill drummer Toby Vail. "I was definitely looking for someone I could spend quite a few years with," Kurt told Michael Azerrad, author of Nirvana's most comprehensive "Come As You Are" story. “I wanted that kind of security, and I knew it didn't happen with Toby. I'm just tired of not finding the right pair. I've been searching all my life. I was just tired of trying to get a girlfriend, with whom I knew I would end up spending no more than a few months. I've always been old-fashioned in that regard. I wish I could just play this field, but I've always wanted more than that." Tracey Marander was "not artistic enough" for him. Toby Vale was only twenty-one years old, too young to think of settling down. Reassured by this breakup and Dave's revelation, she put together a special package for Dave to give to Kurt. It's no secret that it was a heart-shaped box. But Kurt didn't answer her. They met at a concert and Courtney punched him in the stomach, Kurt didn't owe him a favor. Then it turned out that they live only two blocks from each other. The next time Kurt called her at 6am, Courtney kicked Eric out by telling him to "leave because there's a pixie-meet here". Subsequently, Kurt stated that it was the best sex in his life. Then they met again, Courtney was going through a breakup with Billy Corgan and went to Nirvana. they got drunk, then Dave and Kurt shared housing, but Grol had to give in and go to sleep with the sound engineer, as this couple made very noisy love. Then, they began to live together. Courtney learned that she was pregnant and decided to finally stop using drugs. But at the wrong time, one impudent journalist came across, because of which a lot of problems will begin. Courtney and Kurt got married in Hawaii when she was three months pregnant. Then they tried to get Francis back. Lawsuits, Heroin, separation from his daughter, stomach pain, Courtney getting into a row over drugs, all this began to get on Kurt's nerves. After escaping from the blade, in April 1994, the last shot was fired in the Cobain house ...
They swore, fought, beat the dishes ... A gloomy musician who became the idol of a whole generation, and an explosive vocalist of a punk band, whose scandalous image did not fit in any way with her phenomenal level of intelligence - friends and relatives were afraid that someday these two would simply cripple each other friend. Nevertheless, Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love lived together for six years, gave birth to a daughter whom they loved more than anything in the world. But still…
TO When the police entered the room, Courtney immediately understood everything. She just asked, "How did this happen?" “He shot himself. At home. The corpse was found in the greenhouse two days later, ”the sergeant answered, looking at the floor. A few hours later, Courtney flew from Los Angeles to Seattle - on the way from the airport, she covered her ears so as not to hear the newsboys screaming heart-rendingly: “Breaking news! Kurt Cobain shot himself!"
For almost a day she was in oblivion - now falling asleep, then waking up, talking to him aloud, scolding and crying, looking for him in the dark. "This shouldn't have happened!" - she shouted to the orchids, although she understood: everything was going to this. Kurt is too tired of life. He was annoyed by the ubiquitous journalists and crowds of fans under the window, exhausted by continuous tours, he suffered from bronchitis and terrible pains in the stomach, from a painful addiction to drugs. Once Cobain even loved his depression - only in this gloomy state did he write music that brought him worldwide fame. One day he sang a new song, “I hate myself and want to die,” and soon this phrase began to be repeated by teenagers on both sides of the Atlantic. Kurt read in the newspapers that a young fan cut her wrists to his music, and her own life lost all meaning.
"I WANTED HER TO SHUT UP"
TO Ortney loved this gloomy, always unshaven and unkempt guy as she probably did not love anyone in her life. Their stormy romance began with a fight. Courtney came to the Nirvana concert and didn't like it at all; at a bar, she ran into Kurt and directly stated that he wrote bad songs. From such impudence, Kurt went berserk. Courtney screamed at the whole bar, and then Kurt dug into the lips of the offender. "I wanted her to shut up," he later clarified. And close friends admitted: "Actually, I wanted to meet her."
"I'M TIRED OF AFFAIRS!"
A How Courtney wanted it! She did not like the performance, but the vocalist simply drove her crazy - piercing blue eyes, stylish unshaven. He did not stand in languid poses, did not squeeze the guitar, and generally behaved as if he knew everyone in the hall.
After a memorable acquaintance, Cobain and Love did not see each other for almost a year and a half. Kurt, surrounded by underage fans, ruefully told his friends: “I want to finally find a girl with whom I could spend several years together. I want peace and security. I'm tired of these flings and romances that last a month or two. I am a very old-fashioned person, I am exhausted by such relationships. And Courtney met the drummer of Nirvana and suddenly found out that Cobain liked her very much - he talked about her right and left. Moreover - just now Kurt broke up with another girlfriend.
"BE MINE"
TO Ortney almost kissed the astonished drummer and rushed to pick up a special gift for Kurt. She bought a heart-shaped Victorian box and stuffed it with the finest change the house had. There were seashells, tiny pine cones and withered tea roses, on top of everything - a beloved china doll and a doll tea set. Courtney sprayed the box with perfume, tied it with a silk ribbon three times as she was taught as a child, whispered "Be mine" and mailed it to Cobain.
And this scoundrel did not respond! Can you imagine?
WHO IS FASTER?
P After that, they met several times at national concerts, cursed and said nasty things to each other - arguing about who would become a star faster and who would become more famous. “I will become famous and buy diamonds for my wife!” Kurt shouted and heard in response: “Who will go for you?” The novel really came out stormy - their next meeting still ended in Courtney's house.
AND IN THE MORNING THEY WAKE UP…
P waking up in the morning, Courtney suddenly began to sob: “Do you really like me?” And while Kurt was groping for words, she said through tears: “I think no one will ever love me again.” "Well, me too," Kurt muttered. "Yes? Well then fine". They looked at each other knowingly and since then have not parted for more than a couple of weeks. Never. Until his death.
By the time they met, Kurt Cobain was already taking drugs, he was tormented by bouts of bronchitis and stomach pain, he smoked incessantly and looked very pale. He looked like a sick child, looked pampered and fragile. Courtney, who by that time had been on a strict diet for a month, weighed ten kilograms more. She was filled with an almost motherly tenderness—he was so weak, so miserable! So beloved...
"I AM BLINDED BY LOVE..."
ABOUT neither got married six months later, and in the first joint interview, Kurt Cobain, America's dullest singer, joyfully declared: “I am so blinded by love that sometimes I even forget that I have a band. I could quit music right now for Kourtney." The newly-made wife only smiled happily - she already knew that she was pregnant. The newlyweds spent their days daydreaming about the big old house they would buy after the baby was born. It should have lattices overgrown with tea roses, peacocks will walk around the garden.
ENEMY BEHIND
D Ohm they really bought, albeit without peacocks, but with a greenhouse. But two months later, the old sewer broke through and Kurt's favorite guitar was flooded with black mud, as well as a stack of CDs and notebooks with songs. It was then that Courtney found out why such a bad reputation goes about Kurt's character - for two weeks he plunged into a severe depression, did not want to see anyone and tried to commit suicide. For the first time, she realized that someday this would really happen - his health was too weak, his talent was too big and demanding, and behind him stood the most insidious enemy - drugs.
"NO, I'M THE FIRST!"
M The newlyweds were waiting for the birth of a child with fear: what if their dissolute life will make itself felt? They went to the hospital at the same time: Courtney in the maternity ward, and Kurt in the drug treatment. He decided to put an end to addiction forever, and almost died from terrible withdrawal symptoms that could not be removed with anything. Sometimes Kurt would come to Courtney and cry in pain, sitting on the edge of her bed. When the contractions began, Courtney ordered to be taken on a stretcher to her husband’s room, pulled off the blanket from him and shouted: “Come on, get up now! I'm not going to do this alone, without you!" Kurt followed her to the delivery room, and Courtney held his hand and reassured him - on the way he passed out and was very ill. The next day, Kurt brought a gun to the hospital, deciding that the main thing in his life had already been done. Courtney took away her husband's weapon with the words: "No, I'm the first."
MONTH OF HAPPINESS
IN it worked out. The girl was born absolutely healthy, she was named Francis, and happy parents spent a lot of money on the most expensive outfits. Kurt even ordered a special chair for his daughter called "eternal care", which was full of toys and a self-feeding bottle. They wrote songs for her, filmed Francis on video, and even took her to the MTV Awards. Their joint photos appeared on the covers of leading music magazines - a happy, healthy family. A month later, Kurt returned to drugs.
PEACE WE ONLY DREAM
T Now Courtney's life has become a constant battle - a battle for her love, which she has been going for too long to now give it up so easily. Courtney protected her husband from any trouble, took away his money so that he had nothing to buy nacrota. One day, Kurt found a stack of letters from his fans, which his wife put on his desk. Each was a request to give up drugs, and one ten-year-old boy wrote: “If you die, how will I live on?”
POISON AND WEAPONS
TO somehow Courtney invited all his friends from Nirvana to persuade Kurt to a normal life. For five hours they threatened to leave him, fire him from the band and forget him forever if Cobain didn't pull himself together. It's useless: all this time, Kurt stupidly waited for them to finally disperse in order to take another dose. All the money went to "poison" and weapons - Kurt bought more and more pistols, guns, and Courtney almost lost hope.
She still managed to persuade her husband to go back to a specialized clinic in Los Angeles. She flew with him and stayed at the hotel, ready to rush to the hospital at the first call. A few days later he called and said, "Whatever happens, remember that I love you." Courtney jumped up, as if after a blow, but Kurt had already hung up.
"I AM NOT LUCKY IN DEATH"
P frightened Courtney turned the whole of Los Angeles. She blocked his credit card, began calling all the drug dealers she knew, looking for him at friends, in bars and pubs. Meanwhile, Kurt Cobain entered the greenhouse, where orchids were blooming, hesitated a little and pulled the trigger. They say that before his death, he tried to get through to his wife. But could not.
After his suicide, a lot of things happened in the life of Courtney Love - the Grammy Award, millions of records, a successful role in the film "The People vs. Larry Flynt." Trying to drive away the painful memories, Courtney sold the house, but she could not forgive herself that she was not on the phone that evening: if she picked up the phone, Kurt would still be alive.
And further. Since then, Courtney Love has hated flowers. Especially the orchids...
Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love: A love story. (I don’t know the author, but I liked it, very touching)
link http://blog.imhonet.ru/author/banalno/post/1235076/
They swore, fought, beat the dishes ... A gloomy musician who became the idol of a whole generation, and an explosive vocalist of a punk band, whose scandalous image did not fit in with her phenomenal level of intelligence - friends and relatives were afraid that someday these two would simply cripple each other friend. Nevertheless, Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love lived together for six years, gave birth to a daughter whom they loved more than anything in the world. But still…
When the police entered the room, Courtney immediately understood everything. She just asked, "How did this happen?" “He shot himself. At home. The corpse was found in the greenhouse two days later, ”the sergeant answered, looking at the floor. A few hours later, Courtney flew from Los Angeles to Seattle - on the way from the airport, she covered her ears so as not to hear the newsboys screaming heart-rendingly: “Breaking news! Kurt Cobain shot himself!"
For almost a day she was in oblivion - now falling asleep, then waking up, talking to him aloud, scolding and crying, looking for him in the dark. "This shouldn't have happened!" - she shouted to the orchids, although she understood: everything was going to this. Kurt is too tired of life. He was annoyed by the ubiquitous journalists and crowds of fans under the window, exhausted by continuous tours, he suffered from bronchitis and terrible pains in the stomach, from a painful addiction to drugs. Once Cobain even loved his depression - only in this gloomy state did he write music that brought him worldwide fame. One day he sang a new song, “I hate myself and want to die,” and soon this phrase began to be repeated by teenagers on both sides of the Atlantic. Kurt read in the newspapers that a young fan cut her wrists to his music, and her own life lost all meaning.
Courtney loved this gloomy, always unshaven and unkempt guy in a way that she probably did not love anyone in her life. Their stormy romance began with a fight. Courtney came to the Nirvana concert and didn't like it at all; at a bar, she ran into Kurt and directly stated that he wrote bad songs. From such impudence, Kurt went berserk. Courtney screamed at the whole bar, and then Kurt dug into the lips of the offender. "I wanted her to shut up," he later clarified. And close friends admitted: "Actually, I wanted to meet her."
And how Courtney wanted it! She did not like the performance, but the vocalist simply drove her crazy - piercing blue eyes, stylish unshaven. He did not stand up in languid poses, did not squeeze the guitar, and generally behaved as if he knew everyone in the hall. After a memorable acquaintance, Cobain and Love did not see each other for almost a year and a half. Kurt, surrounded by underage fans, ruefully told his friends: “I want to finally find a girl with whom I could spend several years together. I want peace and security. I'm tired of these flings and romances that last a month or two. I am a very old-fashioned person, I am exhausted by such relationships. And Courtney met the drummer of Nirvana and suddenly found out that Cobain liked her very much - he talked about her right and left. Moreover - just now Kurt broke up with another girlfriend.
Courtney almost kissed the astonished drummer and rushed to pick up a special gift for Kurt. She bought a heart-shaped Victorian box and stuffed it with the finest change the house had. There were seashells, tiny pine cones and withered tea roses, on top of everything - a beloved china doll and a doll tea set. Courtney sprayed the box with perfume, tied it with a silk ribbon three times as she was taught as a child, whispered "Be mine" and mailed it to Cobain. And this scoundrel did not respond! Can you imagine?
After that, they met several times at national concerts, cursed and said nasty things to each other - they argued about who would become a star faster and who would become more famous. “I will become famous and buy diamonds for my wife!” Kurt shouted and heard in response: “Who will go for you?” The novel really came out stormy - their next meeting still ended in Courtney's house.
Waking up in the morning, Courtney suddenly began to sob: “Do you really like me?” And while Kurt was groping for words, she said through tears: “I think no one will ever love me again.” "Well, me too," Kurt muttered. "Yes? Well then fine". They looked at each other knowingly and since then have not parted for more than a couple of weeks. Never. Until his death. By the time they met, Kurt Cobain was already taking drugs, he was tormented by bouts of bronchitis and stomach pain, he smoked incessantly and looked very pale. He looked like a sick child, looked pampered and fragile. Courtney, who by that time had been on a strict diet for a month, weighed ten kilograms more. She was filled with an almost motherly tenderness—he was so weak, so miserable! So beloved...
They married on February 24, 1992 on the edge of a cliff in Hawaii. Kurt was in green pajamas and Courtney was in an old dress that once belonged to Seattle Actress Frances Farmer. Kurt didn't want it to be a big ceremony as he was afraid he would cry. In their first joint interview, Kurt Cobain, America's dullest singer, gleefully stated, “I'm so blinded by love that sometimes I even forget that I have a band. I could quit music right now for Kourtney." The newly-made wife only smiled happily - she already knew that she was pregnant. The newlyweds spent their days daydreaming about the big old house they would buy after the baby was born. It should have lattices overgrown with tea roses, peacocks will walk around the garden.
They really bought a house, albeit without peacocks, but with a greenhouse. But two months later, the old sewer broke through and Kurt's favorite guitar was flooded with black mud, as well as a stack of CDs and notebooks with songs. It was then that Courtney found out why such a bad reputation goes about Kurt's character - for two weeks he plunged into a severe depression, did not want to see anyone and tried to commit suicide. For the first time, she realized that someday this would really happen - his health was too weak, his talent was too big and demanding, and behind him stood the most insidious enemy - drugs.
The newlyweds were waiting for the birth of a child with fear: what if their dissolute life will make itself felt? They went to the hospital at the same time: Courtney in the maternity ward, and Kurt in the drug treatment. He decided to put an end to addiction forever, and almost died from terrible withdrawal symptoms that could not be removed with anything. Sometimes Kurt would come to Courtney and cry in pain, sitting on the edge of her bed. When the contractions began, Courtney ordered to be taken on a stretcher to her husband’s room, pulled off the blanket from him and shouted: “Come on, get up now! I'm not going to do this alone, without you!" Kurt followed her to the delivery room, and Courtney held his hand and reassured him - on the way he passed out and was very ill. The next day, Kurt brought a gun to the hospital, deciding that the main thing in his life had already been done. Courtney took away her husband's weapon with the words: "No, I'm the first."
Everything worked out. The girl was born absolutely healthy, she was named Francis. Francis Bean Cobain. Happy parents spent a lot of money on the most expensive outfits, Kurt even ordered a special chair for his daughter called "eternal care", which had a lot of toys and a self-feeding bottle. They wrote songs for her, filmed Francis on video, and even took her to the MTV Awards. Their joint photos appeared on the covers of leading music magazines - a happy, healthy family. On August 30 of the same year, Nirvana performed at the Reading Festival in England. At one point in the show, Cobain addressed the crowd with the message that he had a daughter and had the audience chant "Courtney, we love you!" with him.
And a month later, Kurt returned to drugs ... Now Courtney's life has become a constant battle - a battle for her love, to which she had gone for too long to now give it up so easily. Courtney protected her husband from any trouble, took away his money so that he had nothing to buy nacrota. One day, Kurt found a stack of letters from his fans, which his wife put on his desk. Each was a request to give up drugs, and one ten-year-old boy wrote: “If you die, how will I live on?”
Courtney decides to have a psychotherapy session led by Dr. Steven Chartof from California. On March 25, Courtney, Chris Novoselic, Pat Smear, Kurt's old friend Dylan Carlson, and John Silva, Danny Goldberg, and Janet Billig of GME (the record company that worked with Kurt) took part in a psychotherapy session. One by one, they threatened Kurt to leave him or stop working with him. During the entire five hours that the session lasted, Kurt sat with an absent look. The session did not work. It was decided to refuse the services of Chartof. All the money went to "poison" and weapons - Kurt bought more and more pistols, guns, and Courtney almost lost hope. She still managed to persuade her husband to go back to a specialized clinic in Los Angeles. She flew with him and stayed at the hotel, ready to rush to the hospital at the first call. A few days later he called and said, "Whatever happens, remember that I love you." Courtney jumped up, as if after a blow, but Kurt had already hung up.
A terrified Courtney turned the whole of Los Angeles upside down. She blocked his credit card, began calling all the drug dealers she knew, looking for him at friends, in bars and pubs. Meanwhile, Kurt Cobain entered the greenhouse, where orchids were blooming, hesitated a little and pulled the trigger. Hell on earth was over, millions of fans, wife, child, and friends were left behind. The semi-automatic Remington M-11 20 ended the life of one of the biggest stars in modern rock music. They say that before his death, he tried to get through to his wife. But could not. After his suicide, a lot of things happened in the life of Courtney Love - the Grammy Award, millions of records, a successful role in the film "The People vs. Larry Flynt." Trying to drive away the painful memories, Courtney sold the house, but she could not forgive herself that she was not on the phone that evening: if she picked up the phone, Kurt would still be alive.
Rock love stories never end well.
Rock love stories never end well. Rockers do not know how to live happily ever after, an example of this is Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love.
romantic meeting
At the time of their acquaintance, Kurt was already known as the lead singer of the increasingly popular Nirvana band. The debut album was released in 1989, and the famous single Smells Like Teen Spirit in 1991. Love was the daughter of rich hippies, traveled the world from the age of 16, played in the group Hole, moderately successful, but not up to the popularity of Nirvana.
For the first time, Kurt and Courtney saw each other in January 1990 in one of the Portland clubs and, according to legend, ... got into a fight. Courtney made a rude comment about his appearance, which was flirting in her mind, but not in his. Cobain did not remain in debt and pushed the offender to the floor.
“Everything was happening in front of the jukebox, my favorite song from Living Color was playing, and beer was spilled on the floor,” Courtney later recalled this romantic moment.
A few months after such a bright acquaintance, Courtney confessed to their mutual friend, Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, that she was in love with Kurt, and Dave became their "cupid".
They met again at a concert in May 1991, then talked for hours on the phone. Both were children of divorced parents, had difficulty communicating with other people and took drugs.
Despite such a number of "common themes", they did not immediately converge. By that time, the fans had already made Kurt their idol, the journalists labeled the “voice of a generation”. Cobain was not too happy about the fallen popularity. And he got his friends talking about Courtney: “I met the coolest girl in the world!” The next time they saw each other only five months later.
"Bean"
February 24, 1992 Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love got married. The wedding took place in Hawaii, on the beach of Waikiki. Only a few friends attended the modest ceremony.
The groom was in checkered flannel pajamas, and the bride in a dress that once belonged to Frances Farmer, the actress of the "Golden Age" of Hollywood cinema, known more for her scandalous and tragic fate than for her roles.
On the day of the wedding, Courtney was already pregnant, on August 18, 1992, the couple had a daughter, Francis Bean (Bean - English “bean”, as the father called the girl when he first saw it on an ultrasound).
Kurt loved his daughter very much, in one of the interviews he admitted: “I knew that when I had a child, everything would change, and this is true. I can't tell you how my life changed when we got Frances. When you hold a child in your arms, you feel that this is the best drug in the world.
"The best", but not the only one. The birth of a child was accompanied by a scandal. By that time, journalists were already aware of the Nirvana frontman's drug addiction, adding fuel to the fire and Courtney's statement that she took drugs during pregnancy. An investigation began, and the young parents barely managed to regain custody of their daughter.
27 year old club
Perhaps no less has been written about the death of Kurt Cobain than about the duel between Pushkin and Dantes, but the controversy is still ongoing. His body was found on April 8, 1994. The official version is suicide. He died from a shot in the head, the gun was found in the same place, next to it is a suicide note.
The singer's body was cremated. Courtney, a practicing Buddhist, donated some of the ashes to make ritual tsatsa figurines (in the Buddhist tradition, the ashes of people considered holy are added to clay to help them be reborn). Courtney kept some of the ashes and a strand of her husband's hair for herself.
The official version of death quickly gained supporters and opponents. According to the unofficial version, Courtney was the culprit.
They were very different: the closed and unsociable Cobain and the quick-tempered, violent Courtney. It is not surprising that the label in the spirit of Lennon and Ono quickly stuck to the couple. The insidious harpy Courtney lured the humble rocker into a trap - such was the common belief. Close friends, however, did not think so - Kurt was very difficult to push around.
rocker's widow
Cobain began smoking marijuana while still in school, then switched to heroin to numb the stomach pains from which he had suffered for many years. Courtney, who at first also did not deny herself a dose or two, at some point tried to stop her husband, who got bogged down more and more. More and more drugs were required, depression became deeper.
Shortly before the singer's death, Love placed him in a rehabilitation clinic, from where he escaped. Courtney hired a private detective to search, then blocked her credit card so Kurt couldn't buy a hit.
Later, this detective became one of the supporters of the version of the murder, which Courtney called the customer. The motive for the crime was the most unromantic - money. Cobain and Love have been constantly at odds in recent months and have started talking about a divorce that would see Kourtney get only a million of her husband's money instead of the thirty she got as a widow.
But this conspiracy theory did not go beyond documentaries and books. Kurt's relatives did not support this idea, knowing his character and state of mind at the time of death, in addition, there were several suicides in Cobain's large family.
A year after her husband's death, in a TV interview, Courtney tearfully denied all accusations against her, but admitted that she blamed herself, referring to the clinic and card blocking, which forced Kurt to go on the run. "I shouldn't have interfered, I shouldn't," she repeated.
20 years later
Courtney Love is now 51 years old. During all these years, she continued to shock the public and make scandals. They say that in 1995, at the Oscar ceremony, the singer tried to beat a journalist who once wrote that she took drugs during pregnancy, and Courtney tried to do this with a statuette of Tarantino himself (and he doesn’t have many awards) .
She also doesn’t think about leaving the music scene yet, sometimes she acts in films, in the 90s she played with Milos Forman in the films The People vs. Larry Flynt and The Man in the Moon, and now she can be seen in episodic roles in the series Sons of Anarchy and Empire.
As for the relationship with her daughter, they are not the easiest for Courtney - in 2009, she received an injunction on the right to approach Frances Bean. And recently, the girl secretly married, which greatly upset her mother.
Periodically there are rumors about new fans of Courtney, but none of them could take Kurt's place in her heart. In August of this year, on her daughter's birthday, she posted an old family photo on her Instagram account, captioning it: “I am so sad. Our child is already quite big. God, Kurt, look at her face, what were you thinking?.. I miss you, we all miss you.”
