Editing Courtney Love (section)

===1964–1982: Childhood and education===
Courtney Michelle Harrison was born July 9, 1964, at [[Saint Francis Memorial Hospital]] in San Francisco,{{sfn|Carroll|2005|p=144}} the first child of [[Psychotherapy|psychotherapist]] [[Linda Carroll]] (née Risi; born 1944) and Hank Harrison (1941–2022),<ref>{{cite web|work=The Galt Herald|url=http://www.galtheraldonline.com/news/hank-harrison-81-played-early-role-in-grateful-dead-history/article_999e7682-8466-11ec-bd1f-37507ad63b65.html|title=Hank Harrison, 81, played early role in Grateful Dead history|last=Armstrong|first=Lance|date=February 2, 2022|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220820131128/http://www.galtheraldonline.com/news/hank-harrison-81-played-early-role-in-grateful-dead-history/article_999e7682-8466-11ec-bd1f-37507ad63b65.html|archive-date=August 20, 2022|access-date=June 11, 2022}}</ref> a publisher and road manager for the [[Grateful Dead]].{{sfn|Behind the Music|2010|loc=event occurs at 4:30}}{{sfn|Hunter|Segalstad|2009|p=197}} Her parents met at a party held for [[Dizzy Gillespie]] in 1963, and the two married in [[Reno, Nevada]] after Carroll discovered she was pregnant.<ref name=selvin/>{{sfn|Carroll|2005|p=131}} Carroll, who was adopted at birth,{{sfn|Carroll|2005|pages=19–21}} is the biological daughter of novelist [[Paula Fox]].<ref name=Freeman>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716111058/http://observer.com/2013/04/courtney-loveless-family-tree-remains-mystery-as-feud-with-grandma-sizzles|archive-date=July 16, 2015|url=http://observer.com/2013/04/courtney-loveless-family-tree-remains-mystery-as-feud-with-grandma-sizzles/|work=[[The New York Observer]]|title=Courtney Loveless: Family Tree Remains Mystery as Feud with Grandma Sizzles|date=April 16, 2013|author=Freeman, Nate}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151118201913/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/7543866/Courtney-Love-damage-limitation.html|archive-date=November 18, 2015|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/7543866/Courtney-Love-damage-limitation.html|work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|title=Courtney Love: damage limitation|date=April 1, 2010|author=Garratt, Sheryl}}</ref><ref name="liverpool" /> The identity of Love's maternal biological grandfather is unknown.<ref name=Freeman/> Love's matrilineal great-grandmother was Elsie Fox (née de Sola),<ref name=Acocella>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/05/16/from-bad-beginnings|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]|title=From Bad Beginnings|date=May 9, 2011|last=Acocella|first=Joan|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211164401/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/05/16/from-bad-beginnings|archive-date=December 11, 2015}}</ref> a [[Cubans|Cuban]] writer who co-wrote the film ''[[The Last Train from Madrid]]'' with Love's great-grandfather, [[Paul Hervey Fox]], cousin of writer [[Faith Baldwin]] and actor [[Douglas Fairbanks]].<ref>{{cite magazine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119181246/http://www.ew.com/article/2002/03/22/love-battlefield-combative-singer-actress-embarks-legal-skirmish-her-record-label|archive-date=November 19, 2015|author=''Entertainment Weekly'' Staff|url=https://www.ew.com/article/2002/03/22/love-battlefield-combative-singer-actress-embarks-legal-skirmish-her-record-label|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|title=Love is a Battlefield|date=March 22, 2002}}</ref>{{sfn|Lahire|2011|p=453}} [[Phil Lesh]], the founding bassist of the Grateful Dead, was Love's godfather.{{sfn|Buckley|Edroso|2003|p=499}}{{sfn|Rocco|Rocco|1999|p=224}}<ref>{{cite web|work=[[Rhino Entertainment|Rhino]]|date=March 15, 2018|title=5 Things You Might Not Know About Phil Lesh|quote=According to Love, her father wasn't nearly as involved with the Grateful Dead as he often claimed to have been, but she really is Lesh's goddaughter. She is not, however, one of the little girls on the cover of AOXOMOXOA, so let's go ahead and put that rumor to rest finally, shall we?|url=https://www.rhino.com/article/5-things-you-might-not-know-about-phil-lesh|archive-date=October 26, 2024|archive-url=https://archive.today/20241026070141/https://www.rhino.com/article/5-things-you-might-not-know-about-phil-lesh}}</ref> According to Love, she was named after Courtney Farrell, the protagonist of [[Pamela Moore (author)|Pamela Moore]]'s 1956 novel ''[[Chocolates for Breakfast]]''.<ref>{{cite web|work=[[USA Today]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131218222532/https://www.usatoday.com/story/popcandy/2013/06/26/chocolates-for-breakfast/2459137/|archive-date=December 18, 2013|title=I love this book: 'Chocolates for Breakfast'
|author=Matheson, Whitney|date=June 26, 2013|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/popcandy/2013/06/26/chocolates-for-breakfast/2459137/}}</ref> 

Love is of mixed Cuban, English, German, Irish, Ashkenazi Jewish, and Welsh ancestry.<ref name=Acocella/><ref name="fisher">{{cite episode|series=Conversations from the Edge with Carrie Fisher|title=Interview with Courtney Love|air-date=March 30, 2002|network=[[Oxygen Network|Oxygen]]|season=1|number=4}}</ref> Through her mother's subsequent marriages, Love has two younger half-sisters, three younger half-brothers (one of whom died in infancy), and one adopted brother.{{sfn|Carroll|2005|p=230}}<ref name="curse" />

Love spent her early years in [[Haight-Ashbury]], San Francisco, until her parents divorced in 1970.<ref name=liverpool/>{{sfn|Jung|2010|pages=188–189}} In a custody hearing, her mother, as well as one of her father's girlfriends, testified that Hank had dosed Courtney with [[Lysergic acid diethylamide|LSD]] when she was a toddler.<ref name=liverpool/>{{sfn|Jung|2010|pages=188–189}}{{sfn|Ladd-Taylor|Umanski|1998|p=327}} Carroll also alleged that Hank threatened to abduct his daughter and flee with her to a foreign country.<ref name=selvin/> Though Hank denied these allegations, his custody was revoked.<ref name=selvin>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150818011317/http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Courtney-and-Dad-No-Love-Lost-He-downplays-3033159.php|archive-date=August 18, 2015|url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Courtney-and-Dad-No-Love-Lost-He-downplays-3033159.php|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|title=Courtney and Dad – No Love Lost / He downplays estrangement, she won't see him|author=Selvin, Joel|date=May 11, 1995}}</ref> 

In 1970, Carroll relocated with Love to the rural community of [[Marcola, Oregon]], where they lived along the [[Mohawk River (Oregon)|Mohawk River]]<ref name="curse" /> while Carroll completed her psychology degree at the [[University of Oregon]].{{sfn|Brite|1998|p=24}} There, Carroll remarried to schoolteacher Frank Rodríguez, who legally adopted Love.<ref name="curse" /> Though Love was baptized a [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-04-10-ca-44136-story.html|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=April 10, 1994|title=Cover Story: The Trials of Love: Just when Courtney Love should be focusing on Hole and her career, she can't help worrying about her husband, Kurt Cobain|last=Hilburn|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Hilburn|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200324015723/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-04-10-ca-44136-story.html|archive-date=March 24, 2020}}</ref> her mother maintained an unorthodox home; according to Love, "There were hairy, wangly-ass [[hippie]]s running around naked [doing] [[Gestalt therapy]]", and her mother raised her in a [[Gender neutrality|gender-free]] household with "no dresses, no patent leather shoes, no canopy beds, nothing".{{Sfn|Marks|1995|p=47}} 

Love attended a [[Montessori education|Montessori school]] in [[Eugene, Oregon]], where she struggled academically and socially.{{sfn|Brite|1998|p=25}}<ref name="etrue">{{cite episode|title=Courtney Love|series=[[E! True Hollywood Story]]|network=E!|air-date=October 5, 2003|season=8|number=2}}</ref> She has said that she began seeing psychiatrists at "like, [age] three. Observational therapy. [[Transendental meditation|TM]] for tots. You name it, I've been there."<ref name=lovechild/> At age nine, a psychologist noted that she exhibited signs of [[autism spectrum|autism]], among them [[Sensory processing disorder#History|tactile defensiveness]].{{Sfn|Marks|1995|p=47}}{{sfn|Brite|1998|pages=24–25}}{{Sfn|Carroll|2005|p=250}}<ref name=without/> Love commented in 1995: "When I talk about being introverted, I was diagnosed autistic. At an early age, I would not speak. Then I simply bloomed."<ref name=lovechild/>

In 1972, Love's mother divorced Rodríguez, remarried to sportswriter David Menely, and moved the family to [[Nelson, New Zealand|Nelson]], New Zealand.{{sfn|Carroll|2005|p=221}} Love was enrolled at [[Nelson College for Girls]],<ref>{{Cite news|work=[[The New Zealand Herald]]|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10418549|title=Courtney Love: Dirty Blonde – The Diaries of Courtney Love|date=January 10, 2007|author=Kara, Scott|archive-date=June 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614095237/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10418549}}</ref> but soon expelled for misbehavior.{{sfn|Brite|1998|p=32}} In 1973, Carroll sent Love back to [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]], Oregon,{{Sfn|Marks|1995|p=46}} to be raised by her former stepfather and other family friends.{{sfn|Reisfeld|1996|p=67}}<ref>{{cite interview|title=Episode 49: Courtney Love|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd3ZnxUFuMw|work=Unqualified|interviewer=[[Anna Faris]]|date=August 23, 2016|access-date=August 24, 2016|quote=I grew up in Portland}}</ref> 

At age 14, Love was arrested for shoplifting from a Portland department store<ref name="courting">{{cite news|first=Chrissy|last=Iley|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article604615.ece|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070227205943/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article604615.ece|archive-date=February 27, 2007|title=Courting disaster|work=[[The Times]]|date=October 22, 2006}}</ref> and remanded at [[Hillcrest Youth Correctional Facility|Hillcrest Correctional Facility]], a juvenile hall in [[Salem, Oregon|Salem]], Oregon.<ref name="etrue" />{{sfn|Love|2006|pages=29–31}} While at Hillcrest, she became acquainted with records by [[Patti Smith]], [[the Runaways]], and [[the Pretenders]], who later inspired her to start a band.{{sfn|Behind the Music|2010|loc=event occurs at 11:29}} She was intermittently placed in [[Foster care in the United States|foster care]] throughout late 1979 until becoming legally [[Emancipation of minors|emancipated]] in 1980,{{sfn|Ladd-Taylor|Umanski|1998|p=327}}{{sfn|Brite|1998|pages=37–48}} after which she remained staunchly estranged from her mother.<ref>{{cite web|work=[[Willamette Week]]|url=https://www.wweek.com/portland/article-5227-linda-carroll-unplugged.html|title=Linda Carroll, Unplugged|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622081524/https://www.wweek.com/portland/article-5227-linda-carroll-unplugged.html|archive-date=June 22, 2020|author=Starr, Karla|date=January 17, 2006|access-date=June 19, 2020|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> 

Shortly after her emancipation, Love spent two months in Japan working as a topless dancer, but was deported after her passport was confiscated.{{Sfn|Brite|1998|p=48}} She returned to Portland and began working at the strip club [[Mary's Club]],{{sfn|Evans|1994|p=65}}<ref name="lovechild">{{cite web|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/features/1995/06/courtney-love-199506|work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|title=Love Child|date=June 1995|author=Sessums, Kevin|author-link=Kevin Sessums|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112183005/http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/features/1995/06/courtney-love-199506|archive-date=January 12, 2012}}</ref> adopting the surname Love to conceal her identity; she later adopted Love as her surname.<ref name="curse">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303191343/http://www.seattleweekly.com/2006-03-22/news/courtney-s-family-curse/|archive-date=March 3, 2016|url=http://www.seattleweekly.com/2006-03-22/news/courtney-s-family-curse/|work=[[Seattle Weekly]]|title=Courtney's Family Curse|author=Appelo, Tim|date=October 9, 2006}}</ref> She worked odd jobs, including as a DJ at a gay disco.{{Sfn|Brite|1998|p=60}} Love said she lacked social skills,{{sfn|Yapp|2006|loc=event occurs at 20:20}} and learned them while frequenting gay clubs and spending time with [[drag queen]]s.{{sfn|Brite|1998|pages=44–46}} During this period, she enrolled at [[Portland State University]], studying English and philosophy.{{Sfn|Brite|1998|p=63}}<ref name="thepoweroflove">{{cite magazine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018230454/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0%2C%2C303306%2C00.html|archive-date=October 18, 2014|url=https://ew.com/article/1994/08/12/courtney-love-comes-out-hiding/|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|title=The Power of Love|first=Dana|last=Kennedy|date=August 12, 1994|url-status=live}}</ref> She later commented that, had she not found a passion for music, she would have sought a career working with children.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.straight.com/blogra/619976/vaults-1999-interview-holes-courtney-love|work=[[The Georgia Straight]]|title=From the vaults: A 1999 interview with Hole's Courtney Love|last=Usinger|first=Mike|date=April 2, 2014|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220109212420/https://www.straight.com/blogra/619976/vaults-1999-interview-holes-courtney-love|archive-date=January 9, 2022|access-date=January 9, 2022}}</ref>

{{quote box|align=right|width=22%|bgcolor=#f6ebff|quote=Before Liverpool, my life doesn't count. [[Ian McCulloch (singer)|Ian McCulloch]] and Julian Cope taught me a great deal. I owe them a lot. Liverpool had been a great school to become a rock star.|source=–Love on her time in Liverpool<ref name=liverpool/>}}
In 1981, Love was granted a small [[United States trust law|trust fund]] that had been left by her maternal grandparents. She used that money to travel to Dublin, Ireland, where her biological father was living.{{sfn|Brite|1998|p=51}} She audited courses at [[Trinity College Dublin|Trinity College]], studying theology for two semesters.{{sfn|Brite|1998|p=52}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/courtney-love-receives-honorary-university-award-103000990.html|work=Yahoo|author=''Yahoo'' Staff|title=Courtney Love receives honorary university award|date=October 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810093456/https://www.yahoo.com/news/courtney-love-receives-honorary-university-award-103000990.html|archive-date=August 10, 2017|url-status=bot: unknown|access-date=May 7, 2016}}</ref> She later received [[honorary degree|honorary patronage]] from Trinity's [[University Philosophical Society]] in 2010.<ref>{{Cite news|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321041844/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/8855284/Surprising-honorary-degree-recipients.html|archive-date=March 21, 2016|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/8855284/Surprising-honorary-degree-recipients.html|work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|title=Courtney Love – Surprising honorary degree recipients|author=''The Telegraph'' Staff|date=October 28, 2011}}</ref> 

While in Dublin, Love met musician [[Julian Cope]] of [[the Teardrop Explodes]] at one of the band's concerts.<ref name=liverpool/> Cope took a liking to Love and offered to let her stay at his Liverpool home in his absence.<ref name=liverpool/> She traveled to London, where she was met by her friend and future bandmate, Robin Barbur, from Portland.{{sfn|Brite|1998|pages=52–54}} Recalling Cope's offer, Love and Barbur moved into Cope's home with him and several other artists,<ref name=liverpool>{{cite web|work=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/25/courtney-love-in-liverpool-scousers-wild-child-how-to-rock|date=May 25, 2020|title=Courtney Love in Liverpool: the Scousers who taught the grunge icon how to rock|last=Haslam|first=David|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-date=May 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200529215818/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/25/courtney-love-in-liverpool-scousers-wild-child-how-to-rock|access-date=May 30, 2020}}</ref>{{sfn|Brite|1998|p=55}} including [[Pete de Freitas]] of [[Echo & the Bunnymen]].{{sfn|Brite|1998|pages=54–55}} De Freitas was initially hesitant to allow the girls to stay, but acquiesced as they were "alarmingly young and obviously had nowhere else to go".{{sfn|Brite|1998|p=54}} Love recalled: "They kind of took me in. I was sort of a mascot; I would get them coffee or tea during rehearsals."<ref name="girlboss">{{cite interview|interviewer=Courtney Love|first=Sophia|last=Amoruso|date=January 6, 2016|series=#Girlboss Radio|title=Courtney Love – Nasty Galaxy|via=[[SoundCloud]]|url=https://soundcloud.com/panoply/courtney-love}}</ref> Cope writes of Love frequently in his 1994 autobiography, ''Head-On'', in which he refers to her as "the adolescent".<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090408222717/http://www.headheritage.co.uk/drude/qa/misc.php|archive-date=April 8, 2009|url=http://www.headheritage.co.uk/drude/qa/misc.php|title=Julian Cope Presents Head Heritage: Drudical Q&A Miscellaneous|first=Julian|last=Cope|publisher=HeadHeritage.co.uk|quote=Q: Is Courtney Love the adolescent??? (Jeanette) A: Oh yes.}}</ref>

In July 1982, Love returned to the United States.<ref name=liverpool/> In late 1982, she attended a [[Faith No More]] concert in San Francisco and convinced the members to let her join as a singer.{{sfn|Behind the Music|2010|loc=event occurs at 16:07}}<ref name="AMG Love">{{cite web|author1=Sutton, Michael|work=[[AllMusic]]|title=Courtney Love Biography|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/courtney-love-mn0000109414/biography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930035403/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/courtney-love-mn0000109414/biography|archive-date=September 30, 2018|url-status=bot: unknown|access-date=September 29, 2018}}</ref> The group recorded material with Love as a vocalist, but fired her; according to keyboardist [[Roddy Bottum]], who remained Love's friend in the years after, the band wanted a "male energy".{{sfn|Behind the Music|2010|loc=event occurs at 16:39}} 

Love returned to working abroad as an erotic dancer, briefly in [[Taiwan]], and then at a [[taxi dance hall]] in [[Hong Kong]].{{sfn|Brite|1998|pages=47–48, 66–70}}{{sfn|Roshan|2012|p=36}} By Love's account, she first used [[heroin]] while working at the Hong Kong dance hall, having mistaken it for [[cocaine]].{{sfn|Brite|1998|p=67}} While still inebriated from the drug, Love was pursued by a wealthy male client who requested that she return with him to the Philippines, and gave her money to purchase new clothes.{{sfn|Brite|1998|p=67}} She used the money to purchase an airfare back to the United States.{{sfn|Brite|1998|p=67}}