Courtney Love has been the latest guest on The Magnificent Others, Billy Corgan’s podcast, leader of Smashing Pumpkins, and has left several striking statements that are being picked up by different media. Some of these headlines repeat statements known since the nineties; For example, Love claims that her father, Hank Harrison, writer and former partner of the Grateful Dead, gave her LSD when she was a little girl, an accusation that Harrison repeatedly denied before dying in 2022. Almost everything Courtney Love says should be taken with caution, but here are some gems that she shared with her ex-partner Corgan in this almost two-hour talk.
Courtney Love’s message to Dave Grohl
Courtney Love has clarified that she and Dave Grohl get along well, but has criticized that Foo Fighters fans constantly mess with her and that Grohl allows it. According to Love, Grohl does not support her publicly “for fear of losing his fans,” and has challenged the Foo Fighters singer to have the “guts” to do so: “I could really use it if the straight white men you have as fans would stop messing with me,” Love said, indicating that millennial fans are the cruelest.
Courtney Love and Billy Corgan reaffirm their hatred of Kim Gordon
In the podcast, Love and Corgan recall the “pernicious and horrendous pettiness of the indie community in the ’90s” and point out that Kim Gordon was particularly rude to them during an encounter at a festival. They consider that she acted as a “guardian of indie” at a time when it seemed that there could not be more than one woman on the scene. In 2015, Gordon described Love’s personality as “manipulative and self-centered” in his autobiography.
That Nirvana quote was about Kim Gordon
Love says in the interview that the chorus of Nirvana’s ‘Heart-Shaped Box’ was sarcastically dedicated to Kim Gordon: “Forever in debt to your priceless advice.” Cobain was ironic about Gordon’s punk puritanism, according to Love. The Hole singer also claims that Gordon sold “all of Thurston’s vinyl records” to finance his daughter’s college tuition.
Lana Del Rey welcomed Courtney into her house for free
The topic of Gordon comes up after Courtney commented on her friendship with Lana Del Rey, with whom she has had her ups and downs. In the interview, she reveals that Lana let her live in her Malibu house for free for a year, noting that no woman on the scene had ever done anything like that for her, and stating that Lana is a “fantastic aunt.” Love adds that Del Rey helped him “get out of the city because I needed to get away from that life,” thanks to her “upper-middle class lifestyle.”
Courtney already knows who her grandfather is, and it’s not Marlon Brando
For years, Courtney was convinced that Marlon Brando was her grandfather because he had supposedly slept with her grandmother, the novelist Paula Fox. In Love’s statements cited by media outlets such as People and AOL, Love remembers that she hatched a plan to visit Brando at his house, using contacts, and that when she did so she found it “repulsive.” She says that she was about to steal his toothbrush to do a DNA test, but in the end she backed out: “I may be too feminist, but I don’t need your last name.”
