At this point I'm just sad. While I wsas never a fan for her music I just can't stand around and watch someone go offf the deep end like she has. Sort of like Layne Staley, you lknow what's coming, but all you can do is watch and wait. Sucks for her kid much worse.
Courtney in crisis
By ISAAC GUZMAN
DAILY NEWS FEATURE WRITER
Courtney Love was everybody's favorite rock 'n' roll bad girl once.
Her mood swings, raunchy comments and blistering feuds were exactly what we expected from the widow of Kurt Cobain.
But lately, her exploits have spun wildly from impish and naughty into destructive and pitiable.
Love is now engulfed in a swarm of legal and emotional problems that have paralyzed her career and torn apart her family. On Friday, her 40th birthday, a bizarre call to the police wound up with a disheveled Love handcuffed to a stretcher and entering Bellevue Hospital for an involuntary 72-hour stay.
The rekindled media attention comes at the worst possible time, says Dr. Patricia Farrell, a psychologist who specializes in anxiety disorders.
"She's been hit with a lot of life-changing circumstances," says Farrell, who hasn't been involved in Love's treatment. "It's the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she's turning 40 and her daughter has been taken away. All of this at once is huge for anybody to try to deal with."
Gone is the confident, surgically enhanced Love who strode the red carpet at the premiere of "The People vs. Larry Flynt." In the mid-'90s, it looked like she had beaten many of her demons, but recent photos of her echo the turmoil inside.
"Physically, she looks different, like someone who's severely depressed," Farrell says. "She looks like she doesn't give a damn about herself. She's almost at the point of being hopeless."
Love's attorney, Michael Rosenstein, said that the singer was hospitalized for "a gynecological medical condition." There were reports that Love told police she'd had an abortion, while a caller to 911 said she'd had a miscarriage. But a source within Love's camp says that medical tests showed she was not pregnant.
Love was released on Monday night and is in an "undisclosed location," according to her publicist, Jill Fritzo.
Now that she's out of Bellevue, however, her troubles have only compounded.
She's facing four drug and assault cases in California, including one in which she missed her arraignment date last week, causing the judge to nearly triple her bail to $150,000. She's due back in court tomorrow and Friday for two other cases.
The turmoil led California authorities to revoke Love's custody of Frances Bean, her 11-year-old daughter with Cobain. She has also lost the summer tour that had been planned to promote her first solo album, the ironically titled "America's Sweetheart."
Making matters worse, Love claims that former financial advisers defrauded her of millions of dollars. "America's Sweetheart" has been a flop so far, and her finances have been stretched to the limit.
Those close to the singer are worried that her wild streak has only been inflamed by her dependence on drugs - such as the painkiller OxyContin, which is at the center of her court cases.
"She has at least half a dozen major problems in her life that she needs to sort out right now," says a friend. "But none of them are ever going to get solved unless she gets into treatment and detoxes herself from the cocktail of drugs - even if they are prescribed - that is muddling her thinking right now."
When Love launched "America's Sweetheart," she promoted it with a round of bizarre appearances that found her flashing David Letterman and allegedly hitting a fan with a microphone stand. It was hard to tell if her behavior was an act or the first sign that she had finally gone out of control.
"Some people suggested that she was getting in character for a record that was coming out," says Andy Pemberton, editor in chief of Blender magazine. "She was being a rock 'n' roll star."
If it was a ploy, it backfired terribly. The fan pressed charges, and all the antics did little to stimulate sales.
"The record was a disaster and nobody bought it," Pemberton says. "If she was hoping to sell records, it didn't work. And it sort of finished her career, because now people are more interested in her as a tabloid figure than as a musician."
Experts say intensive rehabilitation and therapy are the only things that can bring Love back from the brink, but add that help is the last thing she'll ask for.
"People like her are extraordinarily emotionally immature," according to Dr. Sheenah Hankin, a psychotherapist who says Love's behavior resembles that of a typical "borderline personality disorder."
"These people throw tantrums and don't take care of themselves at all," she adds. "When they're in a crisis, they don't seek help, they just freak out."
So it's possible that we're only in the opening stages of a major Courtney eruption. It's a process that won't stop until Love faces her problems - either on her own or by court order - or reaches an even more troubling depth.
Her hectic history
July 9, 1964 Courtney Love born in San Francisco.
1976 She is arrested for the first time, for shoplifting, age 12.
1986 Makes her screen debut in Alex Cox's "Sid and Nancy," the story of Sex Pistols star Sid Vicious.
1989 Starts rock band Hole and meets her future husband, Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain.
February 1992 Love and Cobain marry.
August 1992 Frances Bean is born to the couple. Washington State's Child Protective Services immediately starts investigation because of the pair's high-profile use of drugs. Love and Cobain retain custody.
April 1994 Cobain commits suicide by shooting himself. At the same time, Love is arrested after taking a near-fatal drug overdose.
March 1995 Love is arrested on a complaint by two teenagers who say she punched them at a Hole concert in Orlando, Fla. The charges are dismissed.
June 1995 Love collapses at home. She blames an adverse reaction to a sleeping drug.
1996 Plays the tragic, drug-fueled wife of pornography tycoon Larry Flynt in Milos Forman's film "The People vs. Larry Flynt." Earns a Golden Globe nomination for best actress and awards from critics in New York, Boston and Chicago.
February 2003 Arrested in London for allegedly verbally abusing cabin staff on a Virgin Atlantic flight from Los Angeles. She is later released.
October 2003 Arrested when cocaine and opiates are allegedly found in her system after she is accused of attempting to break into the home of former manager and boyfriend Jim Barber. Police later reportedly find prescription drugs in her home, and she is treated for a suspected overdose of painkillers. Her daughter, 11-year-old Frances, is taken by Los Angeles County child services workers.
November 2003 Voluntarily checks into rehab.
March 2004 Accused of assaulting audience member Gregory Burgett with a microphone stand at Manhattan's Plaid nightclub.
March 2004 Courts trouble with the Federal Communications Commission by repeatedly baring her breasts during a taping of CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman."
April 2004 Booked after being accused of striking singer Kristin King in the head with a liquor bottle and a metal flashlight in Jim Barber's California home.
July 9, 2004 On her 40th birthday, a warrant is issued for her arrest after she fails to appear in court for arraignment on the Kristin King assault charge. She's later taken to a hospital in handcuffs after an incident at her SoHo apartment. Her lawyer says she was suffering from a gynecological condition.
Courtney in crisis
By ISAAC GUZMAN
DAILY NEWS FEATURE WRITER
Courtney Love was everybody's favorite rock 'n' roll bad girl once.
Her mood swings, raunchy comments and blistering feuds were exactly what we expected from the widow of Kurt Cobain.
But lately, her exploits have spun wildly from impish and naughty into destructive and pitiable.
Love is now engulfed in a swarm of legal and emotional problems that have paralyzed her career and torn apart her family. On Friday, her 40th birthday, a bizarre call to the police wound up with a disheveled Love handcuffed to a stretcher and entering Bellevue Hospital for an involuntary 72-hour stay.
The rekindled media attention comes at the worst possible time, says Dr. Patricia Farrell, a psychologist who specializes in anxiety disorders.
"She's been hit with a lot of life-changing circumstances," says Farrell, who hasn't been involved in Love's treatment. "It's the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she's turning 40 and her daughter has been taken away. All of this at once is huge for anybody to try to deal with."
Gone is the confident, surgically enhanced Love who strode the red carpet at the premiere of "The People vs. Larry Flynt." In the mid-'90s, it looked like she had beaten many of her demons, but recent photos of her echo the turmoil inside.
"Physically, she looks different, like someone who's severely depressed," Farrell says. "She looks like she doesn't give a damn about herself. She's almost at the point of being hopeless."
Love's attorney, Michael Rosenstein, said that the singer was hospitalized for "a gynecological medical condition." There were reports that Love told police she'd had an abortion, while a caller to 911 said she'd had a miscarriage. But a source within Love's camp says that medical tests showed she was not pregnant.
Love was released on Monday night and is in an "undisclosed location," according to her publicist, Jill Fritzo.
Now that she's out of Bellevue, however, her troubles have only compounded.
She's facing four drug and assault cases in California, including one in which she missed her arraignment date last week, causing the judge to nearly triple her bail to $150,000. She's due back in court tomorrow and Friday for two other cases.
The turmoil led California authorities to revoke Love's custody of Frances Bean, her 11-year-old daughter with Cobain. She has also lost the summer tour that had been planned to promote her first solo album, the ironically titled "America's Sweetheart."
Making matters worse, Love claims that former financial advisers defrauded her of millions of dollars. "America's Sweetheart" has been a flop so far, and her finances have been stretched to the limit.
Those close to the singer are worried that her wild streak has only been inflamed by her dependence on drugs - such as the painkiller OxyContin, which is at the center of her court cases.
"She has at least half a dozen major problems in her life that she needs to sort out right now," says a friend. "But none of them are ever going to get solved unless she gets into treatment and detoxes herself from the cocktail of drugs - even if they are prescribed - that is muddling her thinking right now."
When Love launched "America's Sweetheart," she promoted it with a round of bizarre appearances that found her flashing David Letterman and allegedly hitting a fan with a microphone stand. It was hard to tell if her behavior was an act or the first sign that she had finally gone out of control.
"Some people suggested that she was getting in character for a record that was coming out," says Andy Pemberton, editor in chief of Blender magazine. "She was being a rock 'n' roll star."
If it was a ploy, it backfired terribly. The fan pressed charges, and all the antics did little to stimulate sales.
"The record was a disaster and nobody bought it," Pemberton says. "If she was hoping to sell records, it didn't work. And it sort of finished her career, because now people are more interested in her as a tabloid figure than as a musician."
Experts say intensive rehabilitation and therapy are the only things that can bring Love back from the brink, but add that help is the last thing she'll ask for.
"People like her are extraordinarily emotionally immature," according to Dr. Sheenah Hankin, a psychotherapist who says Love's behavior resembles that of a typical "borderline personality disorder."
"These people throw tantrums and don't take care of themselves at all," she adds. "When they're in a crisis, they don't seek help, they just freak out."
So it's possible that we're only in the opening stages of a major Courtney eruption. It's a process that won't stop until Love faces her problems - either on her own or by court order - or reaches an even more troubling depth.
Her hectic history
July 9, 1964 Courtney Love born in San Francisco.
1976 She is arrested for the first time, for shoplifting, age 12.
1986 Makes her screen debut in Alex Cox's "Sid and Nancy," the story of Sex Pistols star Sid Vicious.
1989 Starts rock band Hole and meets her future husband, Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain.
February 1992 Love and Cobain marry.
August 1992 Frances Bean is born to the couple. Washington State's Child Protective Services immediately starts investigation because of the pair's high-profile use of drugs. Love and Cobain retain custody.
April 1994 Cobain commits suicide by shooting himself. At the same time, Love is arrested after taking a near-fatal drug overdose.
March 1995 Love is arrested on a complaint by two teenagers who say she punched them at a Hole concert in Orlando, Fla. The charges are dismissed.
June 1995 Love collapses at home. She blames an adverse reaction to a sleeping drug.
1996 Plays the tragic, drug-fueled wife of pornography tycoon Larry Flynt in Milos Forman's film "The People vs. Larry Flynt." Earns a Golden Globe nomination for best actress and awards from critics in New York, Boston and Chicago.
February 2003 Arrested in London for allegedly verbally abusing cabin staff on a Virgin Atlantic flight from Los Angeles. She is later released.
October 2003 Arrested when cocaine and opiates are allegedly found in her system after she is accused of attempting to break into the home of former manager and boyfriend Jim Barber. Police later reportedly find prescription drugs in her home, and she is treated for a suspected overdose of painkillers. Her daughter, 11-year-old Frances, is taken by Los Angeles County child services workers.
November 2003 Voluntarily checks into rehab.
March 2004 Accused of assaulting audience member Gregory Burgett with a microphone stand at Manhattan's Plaid nightclub.
March 2004 Courts trouble with the Federal Communications Commission by repeatedly baring her breasts during a taping of CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman."
April 2004 Booked after being accused of striking singer Kristin King in the head with a liquor bottle and a metal flashlight in Jim Barber's California home.
July 9, 2004 On her 40th birthday, a warrant is issued for her arrest after she fails to appear in court for arraignment on the Kristin King assault charge. She's later taken to a hospital in handcuffs after an incident at her SoHo apartment. Her lawyer says she was suffering from a gynecological condition.