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Courtney Love Drops Her Last Name
Courtney Love, the troubled ex-wife of the late Kurt Cobain, has had it with being the troubled ex-wife of the late Kurt Cobain. Her solution? A name change.
“Courtney Love is dead,” Love told British music weekly NME. “The name Courtney Love is a way to oppress me.”
The artist formerly known as Courtney Love would now like to be called Courtney Michelle. She has also decided that she will no longer publicly discuss her late husband or their marriage.”I am not his spokesperson here on earth,” Love said. “I don’t know what he’d be like now…He died at 27.”
I’m guessing the name change and the ban on talking about Kurt Cobain are part of a massive reinvention campaign, possibly in an attempt to win back her daughter, who she lost custody of last winter. Or it could just be more of her trademark batty mumbo-jumbo. Let’s face it, while I’m all for reinvention, a few weeks of somewhat rational behavior don’t erase a lifetime of off-the-charts crazy.
Indeed, the changes for Love come on the heels of an especially dark time. (And wow. If you’re Courtney Love? That’s saying something.) Last December she lost custody of her 17-year-old daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, who lives with her paternal grandmother until she comes of age in August. Love told NME that she has recently been suicidal, and described herself as “self-destructive” and “needing protection from myself”.
“I’m ultimately a widow and a single mother, who’s not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it’s freaky.”
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