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Courtney Love And Frances Bean Cobain Embrace In Rare Public Appearance Together
Courtney Love and Frances Bean Cobain were all smiles when they reunited on the Sundance Film Festival red carpet on Saturday. The mother and daughter hadn't been seen together in public in years, but got together in a loving embrace to show their support for a screening of Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck, a documentary on Love's late husband and Cobain's father, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.
Love, 50, Instagrammed a photo of her cheek-to-cheek with her 22-year-old daughter, who serves as the executive producer on the documentary, with the caption: "So proud of you Bean":
Cobain tweeted photos of her time at Sundance, including one with her mother:
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Kurt Cobain died at the age of 27 in 1994, a death that was determined to be a suicide. Love lost custody of her daughter in 2009 when Cobain was just 17, and she was sent to live with her grandmother, reported E! Online. Over the years, they had a few public fights, including one where Love accused Foo Fighter's Dave Grohl (who formerly was the drummer in Nirvana with Cobain's father) of trying to hit on then 19-year-old Cobain. Both Cobain and Grohl vehemently argued that that wasn't true at all, and Love later apologized to her daughter on Twitter, saying "Bean, sorry I believed the gossip. Mommy loves you."
They've since buried the hatchet, and have been tweeting sweet messages to each other on Twitter wishing each other happy birthdays and Christmas greetings over the last few years.
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck is the first fully-authorized documentary on Kurt Cobain, and includes interviews with Love and Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic, reported NY Daily News.
Love tweeted a sweet message to her daughter to tell her how proud she is of her:
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