Kurt Cobain’s widow, Courtney Love, has led an erratic life since the rocker’s death. Her estranged daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, isn’t happy with mom’s bizarro rants on Twitter. Love has both a public account (@courtney) and a private, locked account (@cbabymichelle). On the latter account, she alleged this week that her daughter had been the subject of sexual advances from former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl.
“While I’m generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn,” Cobain said in a statement. “I have never been approached by Dave Grohl in more than a platonic way. I’m in a monogamous relationship and very happy. Twitter should ban my mother.”
Love made the allegations on her private Twitter account, claiming that she’d been told the Foo Fighters frontman had “hit on Frances,” and called Grohl “sexually obsessed” with Kurt Cobain — her late husband and Grohl’s late Nirvana bandmate.
Grohl denied the accusations in a statement of his own.
“Unfortunately Courtney is on another hateful Twitter rant. These new accusations are upsetting, offensive and absolutely untrue,” he said.
Here are embedded tweets from one of the followers of Love’s protected account who tweeted with her about her allegations at the time she published the tweets earlier this week:
https://twitter.com/#!/GregSmeltzer/status/189933031379845120
https://twitter.com/#!/GregSmeltzer/status/189935774253322240
Screencaps of Love’s unlovely diatribe against her daughter and Grohl are here.
Much of the Twitter reaction, mercifully, is on poor Frances Bean’s side:
https://twitter.com/#!/_ConorGiles/status/190605496426835968
https://twitter.com/#!/rockohoward/status/190131709658931200
https://twitter.com/#!/w0lf_pack/status/190591287659986945
https://twitter.com/#!/JWinterberg/status/190589984942735361
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