Courtney Love: Family Pet Killer

Courtney Love in Cannes, France. May 20, 2011. cinemafestival / Shutterstock.com.

Songstress Courtney Love has done a lot of questionable things during life in the limelight, like throwing makeup compacts at Madonna during an interview with MTV's Kurt Loder following the MTV Video Music Awards in 1995. But according to recent reports, she's done something we're not sure anyone could have suspected. She allegedly (though inadvertently) killed two of her family's pets.

Love's 19-year-old daughter with the late Kurt Cobain, Frances Bean Cobain, filed a restraining order against her mother in 2009 following a mother-daughter brawl, and the deposition documents have been uncovered by the The Fix.

In the previously sealed documents, Cobain claims two family pets died due to Love's hoarding habits and pill popping lifestyle. The cat passed away after becoming "entangled in piles of Etsy fabrics, boxes of paperwork, trash and other possessions" in the family's home. The dog died after swallowing "a pile" of mom's pills.

Cobain says her mother "has taken drugs for a long as [she] can remember" and consumes a healthy diet of "Xanax, Adderall, Sonata and Abilify, sugar and cigarettes." Cobain added, "She rarely eats....She often falls asleep in her bed while she is smoking, and I am constantly worried that she will start a fire (which she has done at least three times) that will threaten our lives."

If you care to learn more about the troubled San Francisco native, The Fix has published Love's candid confessions in a new e-book, "Courtney Comes Clean," which is the first in a monthly series covering addiction-related subjects. Interested parties may purchase the surely provocative read for $2.99 here.

How does Love feel about her addiction? “I think of myself as sober,” she says. “When you’re used to heroin and cocaine, a few pills doesn’t seem like the end of the world."

Contact the author of this article or email tips@laist.com with further questions, comments or tips.

By Lauren Lloyd in News on February 2, 2012 9:30 AM 0 Comments

Comments [rss]

LiamMcBain

Hmmm....sounds like Courtney has some mental health issues. I hope she seeks help, though acknowledging the need is the first step. As far as falling asleep while smoking some of those drugs, taken in sufficient quantities, tend to cause periods of rapid onset unconsciousness (sleep) with little or no warning.

Now claiming the cat died entangled in etsy crap and the dog died of an overdose sounds pretty strange. Cats are renounced for the ability to get into and out of all sorts of things and dogs loathe stuff that tastes bad. So I have serious doubts about the cause of death of both these animals.

Finally, I think her shrink shares partial blame if he or she is simply renewing prescriptions without trying to help Ms. Love get to the root of the problem(s). But this seems to be the M.O. of mental health-care professionals today. Don't try to fix the problem; medicate it instead.