Love ‘paved way for Spears breakdown’
Courtney Love has claimed her meltdown after the suicide of husband Kurt Cobain laid a path for the crumbling of Britney Spears years later.
The rock widow also confirmed that she took drugs during her pregnancy with the Nirvana singer’s daughter Frances Bean, now 16.
She told Elle magazine: ‘I had a long, hard fall. I set the stage for Britney to crash and burn. I went through it all first.’
The 44-year-old also set the record straight about rumours she used a gastric band to lose weight.
She said: ‘Baby, if I could get a gastric band I would. I’ve heard it’s a lot of vomiting and a pain in the ass but it’s still easier than a diet.’
Also, she said a Hollywood doctor vetoed the idea after which she tried liposuction, which ‘was horrible and didn’t work’.
After slimming by ’simply not eating’, the Hole singer was shocked to ‘look like a skeleton’.
She said she then started eating again. Love also described the family unit with Cobain and Frances Bean before the rock star shot himself in 1994: ‘We were excellent parents and I say that despite pretty much always having an edge on.’
She said she has told Frances Bean that she took drugs early in pregnancy but her daughter was born healthy and a good size.
Love also put to bed claims she has been sleeping with Russell Brand.
She added: ‘Russell and me are just good friends.’ Read the full interview in Elle magazine on Wednesday.
