Editing Courtney Love (section)

=== 1992–1995: Marriage to Kurt Cobain, ''Live Through This'' and breakthrough ===
{{quote box|align=right|width=22%|bgcolor=#f6ebff|quote=Just marrying [him] created a mythology around me that I didn't expect for myself, because I had a very controlled, five-year plan about how I was going to be successful in the rock industry. Marrying Kurt, it all kind of went sideways in a way that I could not control and I became seen in a certain light{{en dash}}a vilified light that made Yoko Ono look like [[Pollyanna]]{{en dash}}and I couldn't stop it.|source=–Love on her public image after marrying Kurt Cobain<ref>{{cite web|work=[[V (American magazine)|V]]|title=Courtney Love on ''Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck''|url=https://www.vmagazine.com/site/content/4111/courtney-love-on-kurt-cobain-montage-of-heck|date=May 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905212809/https://www.vmagazine.com/site/content/4111/courtney-love-on-kurt-cobain-montage-of-heck|archive-date=September 5, 2015|author=Sandberg, Patrik}}</ref>}}

Shortly after completing the tour for ''Pretty on the Inside'', Love married Cobain on [[Waikiki Beach]] on February 24, 1992.<ref name=encore/> She wore a satin and lace dress once owned by the actress [[Frances Farmer]], and Cobain wore plaid pajamas.{{sfn|Brite|1998|p=131}} During Love's pregnancy, Hole recorded a cover of "Over the Edge" for a [[Wipers (band)|Wipers]] tribute album,<ref>{{cite AV media notes|title=Ask For It|others=Hole|year=1995|publisher=Caroline Records|id=CAROL 1470-1}}</ref> and recorded their fourth single, "[[Beautiful Son]]", which was released in April 1993. On August 18, 1992, the couple's only child, a daughter, [[Frances Bean Cobain]], was born in Los Angeles.<ref name="encore">{{cite magazine |author=Sinclair, Tom |date=February 19, 1999 |title=Encore: Kurt and Courtney's wedding |url=https://ew.com/article/1999/02/19/encore-kurt-and-courtneys-wedding/ |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]}}</ref> They relocated to [[Carnation, Washington]], and then Seattle.<ref>{{Cite news|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/travel/chasing-kurt-cobain-in-washington-state.html|title=Chasing Kurt Cobain in Washington State|author=Seminara, Dave|date=March 25, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150828172450/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/travel/chasing-kurt-cobain-in-washington-state.html|archive-date=August 28, 2015}}</ref>{{sfn|Brite|1998|pages=147–150}}

Love's first major media exposure came in a September 1992 profile with Cobain for ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' by Lynn Hirschberg, entitled "Strange Love".{{sfn|Yarm|2011|pages=364–366}} Cobain had become a major public figure following the surprise success of Nirvana's album ''[[Nevermind]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Freedland|first=Jonathan|date=April 5, 2014|title=Kurt Cobain: an icon of alienation|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/from-the-archive-blog/2014/apr/05/kurt-cobain-an-icon-of-alienation|access-date=August 23, 2018|website=[[The Guardian]]|language=en}}</ref> Love was urged by her manager to participate in the cover story.{{sfn|Yarm|2011|p=365}} During the prior year, Love and Cobain had developed a heroin addiction; the profile portrayed them in an unflattering light, and suggested that Love had been addicted to heroin during her pregnancy.{{sfn|Yarm|2011|p=367}} The [[Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services]] investigated, and custody of Frances was temporarily awarded to Love's sister Jaimee.{{sfn|Brite|1998|p=142}} Love said she was misquoted by Hirschberg, and that she had immediately quit heroin during her [[first trimester]] once she discovered she was pregnant.{{sfn|Yarm|2011|p=365}}<ref name="lbarton">{{Cite news|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043445/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/dec/11/biography.popandrock|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/dec/11/biography.popandrock|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|title=Love me do|first=Laura|last=Barton|date=December 11, 2006}}</ref><ref name=RSQuote>{{cite magazine|last1=Sirota|first1=Peggy|date=November 13, 1997|title=Women of Rock: Courtney Love|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|issue=773|page=163}}</ref> Love later said the article had serious implications for her marriage and Cobain's mental state,{{sfn|Behind the Music|2010|loc=event occurs at 36:42}}{{sfn|Yarm|2011|pages=367–368}}{{sfn|Raphael|1995|p=17}} suggesting it was a factor in [[Suicide of Kurt Cobain|his suicide two years later]].{{sfn|Yarm|2011|p=365}}<ref>{{cite web|work=[[Yahoo!]]|author=Car, Erin|title=Courtney Love Blames Lynn Hirschberg For Kurt Cobain's Death|date=May 26, 2011|archive-date=October 8, 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20171008105410/https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/blogs/thefamous/courtney-love-blames-lynn-hirschberg-kurt-cobain-death-070708985.html|url=https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/blogs/thefamous/courtney-love-blames-lynn-hirschberg-kurt-cobain-death-070708985.html|url-status=dead|access-date=October 8, 2017}}</ref>

[[File:Courtney Love 1995 by Andrzej Liguz.jpg|thumb|left|upright=.9|Love performing with Hole at [[Big Day Out]], [[Melbourne]], 1995|alt=Woman playing guitar and screaming into microphone]]
On September 8, 1993, Love and Cobain made their only public performance together at the Rock Against Rape benefit in Hollywood, performing two [[acoustic music|acoustic]] duets of "[[Pennyroyal Tea]]" and "[[Where Did You Sleep Last Night]]".<ref name="rar">{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1XjH458f108C&pg=PA46|author1=Gladstone, Eric|author2=Roberts, Michael|author3=Smith, Roger Len|journal=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|date=December 1993|page=46|volume=9|issue=9|title=The Ballad of Kurt and Courtney|issn=0886-3032|via=Google Books}} {{Free access}}</ref> Love also performed electric versions of two new Hole songs, "[[Doll Parts]]" and "[[Miss World (song)|Miss World]]", both written for their upcoming second album.<ref name="rar" /> In October 1993, Hole recorded their second album, ''[[Live Through This]]'', in Atlanta. The album featured a new lineup with bassist [[Kristen Pfaff]] and drummer [[Patty Schemel]].{{sfn|Behind the Music|2010|loc=event occurs at 49:29}}

In April 1994, [[Suicide of Kurt Cobain|Cobain killed himself]] in the Seattle home he shared with Love, who was in rehab in Los Angeles at the time.{{sfn|Behind the Music|2010|loc=event occurs at 49:29}} In the following months, Love was rarely seen in public, staying at her home with friends and family.<ref name="tour" /> Cobain's remains were [[cremation|cremated]] and his ashes divided into portions by Love, who kept some in a teddy bear and some in an urn.<ref name="tour">{{cite news|title=Kurt Cobain's Final Tour|work=[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]|url=https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a19776/kurt-cobains-final-tour-0296/|date=February 1996|author=Dickinson, Amy|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20241214055441/https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a19776/kurt-cobains-final-tour-0296/|archive-date=December 14, 2024}}</ref> In June, she traveled to the [[Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies|Namgyal Buddhist Monastery]] in [[Ithaca, New York]] and had Cobain's ashes ceremonially blessed by Buddhist monks. Another portion was mixed into clay and made into memorial sculptures.<ref name="tour" />

''Live Through This'' was released one week after Cobain's death, on [[Geffen Records|Geffen]]'s subsidiary label [[DGC Records|DGC]].{{sfn|Behind the Music|2010|loc=event occurs at 49:29}} On June 16, Pfaff died of a heroin overdose in Seattle.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Hajari, Nisid |date=July 8, 1994 |title=Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff found dead |url=https://ew.com/article/1994/07/08/hole-bassist-kristen-pfaff-found-dead/ |url-status=bot: unknown |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930034019/https://ew.com/article/1994/07/08/hole-bassist-kristen-pfaff-found-dead/ |archive-date=September 30, 2018 |access-date=September 29, 2018}}</ref> For Hole's impending tour, Love recruited the Canadian bassist [[Melissa Auf der Maur]].{{sfn|Reisfeld|1996|p=75}} Hole's performance on August 26, 1994, at the [[Reading Festival]]—Love's first public performance following Cobain's death<ref name="aaron spin">{{cite journal |last=Aaron |first=Charles |date=November 1994 |title=Hole: Live |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CtXO3_Rfo7YC&pg=PA90E |journal=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |volume=16 |issue=4 |page=90 |issn=0886-3032 |via=Google Books}}</ref>{{sfn|Irvin|2008|p=609}}—was described by [[MTV]] as "by turns macabre, frightening and inspirational".<ref>{{cite web |last=Green |first=Stuart |title=Foo Fighters Inspire Mad Madness at Reading '95 |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/504625/foo-fighters-inspire-madness-at-reading-95/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614072031/http://www.mtv.com/news/504625/foo-fighters-inspire-madness-at-reading-95/ |archive-date=June 14, 2018 |work=[[MTV]]}}</ref> [[John Peel]] wrote in ''[[The Guardian]]'' that Love's disheveled appearance "would have drawn whistles of astonishment in [[Bethlem Royal Hospital|Bedlam]]", and that her performance "verged on the heroic&nbsp;... Love steered her band through a set which dared you to pity either her recent history or that of the band&nbsp;... The band teetered on the edge of chaos, generating a tension which I cannot remember having felt before from any stage."{{sfn|Cavanagh|2015|loc=chapter: ''The Hall of Fame'', 1995}}

''Live Through This'' was [[Music recording sales certification|certified platinum]] in April 1995 and received numerous accolades.{{sfn|Mitchell|Reid-Walsh|2007|p=409}} The success combined with Cobain's suicide produced publicity for Love, and she was featured on [[Barbara Walters]]' ''[[Barbara Walters' 10 Most Fascinating People|10 Most Fascinating People]]'' in 1995.{{sfn|Brite|1998|p=213}} Her erratic onstage behavior and various legal troubles during Hole's tour compounded the media coverage of her.<ref name="strauss">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/18/arts/critic-s-notebook-a-singer-spurns-the-role-of-victim.html|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|title=Critic's Notebook; A Singer Spurns The Role Of Victim|author=Strauss, Neil|date=February 18, 1995|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927064335/http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/18/arts/critic-s-notebook-a-singer-spurns-the-role-of-victim.html|archive-date=September 27, 2016}}</ref> Hole performed a series of riotous concerts over the following year, with Love frequently appearing hysterical onstage, flashing crowds, [[stage diving]], and getting into fights with audience members.<ref name="aaron spin" /><ref name=smith>{{cite magazine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141207221706/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0%2C%2C298095%2C00.html|archive-date=December 7, 2014|url=https://ew.com/article/1995/07/28/courtney-love-causes-trouble-lollapolooza/|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|title=Love's Hate Fest|author=Smith, Ethan|date=July 28, 1995|url-status=live}}</ref> One journalist reported that at the band's show in Boston in December 1994: "Love interrupted the music and talked about her deceased husband Kurt Cobain, and also broke out into [[Tourette syndrome]]-like rants. The music was great, but the raving was vulgar and offensive, and prompted some of the audience to shout back at her."<ref name=boston>{{cite web|url=http://www.celebrateboston.com/strange/courtney-love-rant.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930081209/http://www.celebrateboston.com/strange/courtney-love-rant.htm|archive-date=September 30, 2018|work=Celebrate Boston|title=Courtney Love Rant in Boston, 1994|publisher=CelebrateBoston.com}}</ref>

In January 1995, Love was arrested in Melbourne for disrupting a [[Qantas]] flight after getting into an argument with a flight attendant.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/court-orders-courtney-love-to-be-good-for-one-3048102.php|title=Court Orders Courtney Love To 'Be Good' for One Month|date=January 24, 1995|website=SFGATE}}</ref> On July 4, 1995, at the [[Lollapalooza Festival]] in [[George, Washington]], Love threw a lit cigarette at musician [[Kathleen Hanna]] before punching her in the face, alleging that she had made a joke about her daughter.<ref>{{cite magazine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160511143058/http://www.ew.com/article/1995/07/28/courtney-love-causes-trouble-lollapolooza|archive-date=May 11, 2016|url=https://www.ew.com/article/1995/07/28/courtney-love-causes-trouble-lollapolooza|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|title=Courtney Love causes trouble at Lollapolooza|author=Smith, Ethan|date=July 28, 1995}}</ref> She pleaded guilty to an [[assault]] charge and was sentenced to [[anger management]] classes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/506111/lollapalooza-back-biting-thurston-moore-squeals-on-courtney/|work=[[MTV]]|title=Lollapalooza Back Biting: Thurston Squeals on Courtney|date=July 9, 1995|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170206104028/http://www.mtv.com/news/506111/lollapalooza-back-biting-thurston-moore-squeals-on-courtney/|archive-date=February 6, 2017|url-status=dead|author=''MTV News'' Staff}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.eonline.com/news/36483/writer-sues-courtney-love-for-alleged-attack|work=[[E! Online]]|title=Writer Sues Courtney Love for Alleged Attack|last=Frankel|first=Daniel|date=May 29, 1998|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190214061759/https://www.eonline.com/news/36483/writer-sues-courtney-love-for-alleged-attack|archive-date=February 14, 2019|access-date=February 13, 2019|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> In November 1995, two male teenagers sued Love for allegedly punching them during a Hole concert in Orlando, Florida in March 1995. The judge dismissed the case on grounds that the teens "weren't exposed to any greater amount of violence than could reasonably be expected at an alternative rock concert".<ref>{{cite web|work=[[Orlando Sentinel]]|title=Case Against Courtney Love Thrown Out|date=November 7, 1995|author=Salamone, Debbie|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1995/11/07/case-against-courtney-love-thrown-out/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614044732/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1995-11-07/news/9511070076_1_courtney-love-judge-love-attorney|archive-date=June 14, 2018}}</ref> Love later said she had little memory of 1994 and 1995,<ref name=opie /> as she had been using large quantities of heroin and [[Flunitrazepam|Rohypnol]] at the time.<ref name=opie>{{cite interview|interviewer1=[[Gregg Hughes]]|interviewer2=[[Anthony Cumia]]|interviewer3=[[Jim Norton (comedian)|Jim Norton]]|last=Love|first=Courtney|date=May 30, 2013|series=''[[Opie and Anthony]]''|publisher=[[Sirius Satellite Radio]]|title=Courtney Love in Studio|url-status=bot: unknown|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUA98nxYLXE|archive-date=April 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413025624/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUA98nxYLXE|access-date=April 13, 2023}}</ref>{{sfn|Behind the Music|2010|loc=event occurs at 1:02:31}}