The bizarre courtship of Kurt and Courtney
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Just as a sobbing and sober Courtney Love was cleared of all pending
drug and assault charges in L.A. Superior Court yesterday, galleys of a
book circulated saying Kurt Cobain had wanted to divorce her.
Everett True, an old friend of the Nirvana front man, writes in his
upcoming book, "Nirvana: The Biography," that the first time they met,
Courtney saw Cobain and "yelped, 'You're Kurt Cobain and you're an
a--.'?" She then punched him in the stomach.
True interviewed the couple's manny, Michael (Cali) DeWitt, who was
charged with watching their daughter, Frances Bean. DeWitt recalls that
on the day Nirvana shot the "Heart-Shaped Box" video, a huge fight
escalated between Love and Cobain and "in the classic Kurt way of
saying f- you, he put a cigarette out in the middle of his forehead. If
you watch the video, there's a lot of makeup on his forehead because it
was a really bad scab.'?"
True adds that, soon after, Cobain "phoned Courtney, got into a fight,
and immediately called his lawyer, Rosemary Carroll, to tell her he
wanted a divorce."
Carroll tells True, "Did he ever say that to me? Yes, he did, but I
don't know how serious he was."
DeWitt also describes to True in disturbing detail Cobain's first
suicide attempt, which came after Courtney rebuffed Kurt's romantic
advances on their reunion following Nirvana's European tour. He said:
"Our rooms were connected and I ran in there and he was on the floor,
dressed, with his eyes open, blood coming out of his nose." True
follows up with the details that Cobain "was fully dressed, with $1,000
in his pocket and a three-page note in his hand" and that 60 Rohypnol
pills were reportedly pumped from his stomach that night. Says DeWitt,
"It was one of those things like, Was it or wasn't it?"
Yesterday, L.A. Superior Court Judge Rand Rubin explained his decision
to Love - who was dressed in a conservative suit like Courtroom Barbie
- saying, "You've shown to me you are interested in a much less
destructive lifestyle."
Messalina
If Kurt's friend was trying to stir opinion against Courtney, too bad,
because he's accomplished just the opposite. He sounds like an abusive
drama queen.
Mez
Font of All Important Info
felt compelled by mysterious forces to say:
i can't believe they're still peddling these same craptastic stories
all these years after his death.
--dez
...a pistol-hot cup of Dez...
"Chef of chicanery, your buns are mine!"
--the Tick