Editing Courtney Love (section)

===2003–2008: Solo work and legal troubles===
In February 2003, Love was arrested at [[Heathrow Airport]] for disrupting a flight and was banned from [[Virgin Atlantic|Virgin Airlines]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2724499.stm|date=February 5, 2003|author=BBC Staff|work=[[BBC News]]|title=Love blames 'potty mouth' for arrest|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003043606/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2724499.stm|archive-date=October 3, 2016}}</ref> In October, she was arrested in Los Angeles after breaking several windows of her producer and then-boyfriend James Barber's home and was charged with being under the influence of a controlled substance;<ref name="smolowe">{{cite web|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20148514,00.html|work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|title=When Love Isn't Enough|author=Smolowe, Jill|date=November 3, 2003|archive-date=March 21, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321204637/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0%2C%2C20148514%2C00.html|volume=60|number=18|url-status=dead}}</ref> the ordeal resulted in her temporarily losing custody of her daughter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1479936/courtney-lovetrades-blows-with-kurt-cobains-mom.jhtml|work=[[MTV]]|title=Courtney Love Trades Blows With Kurt Cobain's Mom, Admits to Oxycontin OD|first=Gil|last=Kaufman|date=October 24, 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111023115625/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1479936/courtney-lovetrades-blows-with-kurt-cobains-mom.jhtml|archive-date=October 23, 2011|access-date=May 26, 2011|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref>

After the breakup of Hole, Love began composing material with songwriter [[Linda Perry]], and in July 2003 signed a contract with [[Virgin Records]].<ref name="vineyard">{{cite web|author=Vineyard, Jennifer|date=July 11, 2003|title='A Lot of God and a Lot of Sex' on Courtney Love Solo Album|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1473759/a-lot-of-god-and-a-lot-of-sex-on-courtney-love-solo-album/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180403173633/http://www.mtv.com/news/1473759/a-lot-of-god-and-a-lot-of-sex-on-courtney-love-solo-album/|archive-date=April 3, 2018|work=[[MTV]]}}</ref> She began recording her debut solo album, ''[[America's Sweetheart (Courtney Love album)|America's Sweetheart]]'', in France shortly after.{{sfn|Behind the Music|2010|loc=event occurs at 1:11:50}} Virgin Records released ''America's Sweetheart'' in February 2004; it received mixed reviews.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/americas-sweetheart/courtney-love|work=Metacritic|title=Reviews for America's Sweetheart by Courtney Love|archive-date=March 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315132635/http://www.metacritic.com/music/americas-sweetheart/courtney-love|url-status=dead}}</ref> Charles Aaron of ''Spin'' called it a "jaw-dropping act of artistic will and a fiery, proper follow-up to 1994's ''Live Through This''" and awarded it eight out of ten,<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150917064020/http://www.spin.com/reviews/courtney-love-americas-sweetheart-virgin|archive-date=September 17, 2015|url=http://www.spin.com/reviews/courtney-love-americas-sweetheart-virgin|title=Courtney Love, America's Sweetheart Review|author=Aaron, Charles|work=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|date=March 9, 2004}}</ref> while Amy Phillips of ''The Village Voice'' wrote: "[Love is] willing to act out the dream of every teenage brat who ever wanted to have a glamorous, high-profile hissyfit, and she turns those egocentric nervous breakdowns into art. Sure, the art becomes less compelling when you've been pulling the same stunts for a decade. But, honestly, is there anybody out there who fucks up better?"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0408/phillips.php|work=The Village Voice|date=February 23, 2004|first=Amy|last=Phillips|archive-date=March 7, 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040307145925/http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0408/phillips.php|title=A big juicy fuckup for hissyfit-having little girls who hate being little girls}}</ref> The album sold fewer than 100,000 copies.{{sfn|Mitchell|Reid-Walsh|2007|p=409}} Love later expressed regret over the record,<ref name=bozza>{{Cite news|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/arts/music/18courtney.html|title=Courtney Love's Music Therapy|url-status=live|author=Bozza, Anthony|date=April 15, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100418084030/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/arts/music/18courtney.html|archive-date=April 18, 2010}}</ref> blaming her drug problems at the time.<ref name=jazz>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/10743170/Courtney-Love-interview-There-will-be-no-jazz-hands-on-Smells-Like-Teen-Spirit.html|work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|title=Courtney Love interview: 'There will be no jazz hands on Smells Like Teen Spirit'|first=Neil|last=McCormick|date=April 5, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151008032214/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/10743170/Courtney-Love-interview-There-will-be-no-jazz-hands-on-Smells-Like-Teen-Spirit.html|archive-date=October 8, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> Shortly after it was released, she told [[Kurt Loder]] on ''[[Total Request Live|TRL]]'': "I cannot exist as a solo artist. It's a joke."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1485868/courtney-love-grievous-angel-the-interview-with-kurt-loder/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180123072354/http://www.mtv.com/news/1485868/courtney-love-grievous-angel-the-interview-with-kurt-loder/|archive-date=January 23, 2018|work=[[MTV]]|author=''MTV News'' Staff|title=Love, Grievous Angel: The Interview with Kurt Loder|date=March 19, 2004|url-status=bot: unknown|access-date=April 3, 2018}}</ref>

On March 17, 2004, Love appeared on the ''[[Late Show with David Letterman]]'' to promote ''America's Sweetheart''.<ref name=sanneh/> Her appearance drew media coverage when she lifted her shirt multiple times,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna4553516|title=Courtney Love Arrested in New York|work=[[MSNBC]]|date=March 25, 2004|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120702223108/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/4553516|archive-date=July 2, 2012|url-status=live|access-date=August 2, 2010}}</ref> [[Exhibitionism|flashed]] Letterman, and stood on his desk.<ref name=sanneh>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/20/arts/rock-review-love-lives-through-this-rasping-take-care-of-me.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=Rock Review; Love Lives Through This, Rasping 'Take Care of Me'|author=Sanneh, Kelefa|date=March 20, 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170210144825/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/20/arts/rock-review-love-lives-through-this-rasping-take-care-of-me.html|archive-date=February 10, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> The ''New York Times'' wrote: "The episode was not altogether surprising for Ms. Love, 39, whose most public moments have veered from extreme pathos—like the time she read the suicide note of her famous husband, Kurt Cobain, on MTV—to angry feminism to catfights to incoherent ranting."<ref name=dewan>{{Cite news|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|title=From Flashing Letterman to Seeing a Flash of the Badge|date=March 19, 2004|author=Dewan, Shaila K.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324055640/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/nyregion/from-flashing-letterman-to-seeing-a-flash-of-the-badge.html|archive-date=March 24, 2018|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/nyregion/from-flashing-letterman-to-seeing-a-flash-of-the-badge.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Hours later, in the early morning of March 18, Love was arrested in Manhattan for allegedly striking a fan with a microphone stand during a small concert in the [[East Village, Manhattan|East Village]].<ref name=dewan/> She was released within hours and performed a scheduled concert the following evening at the [[Bowery Ballroom]].<ref name=dewan/> Four days later, she called in multiple times to ''[[The Howard Stern Show]]'', claiming in broadcast conversations with Stern that the incident had not occurred, and that actress [[Natasha Lyonne]], who was at the concert, was told by the alleged victim that he had been paid $10,000 to file a false claim leading to Love's arrest.<ref>{{cite interview|interviewer=Courtney Love|work=The Howard Stern Show|title=Courtney Love call|date=March 22, 2004}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marksfriggin.com/news04/3-22.htm|work=Marks Friggin|date=January 25, 2006|title=For the week of 3/22/2004 to 3/26/2004|series=Howard Stern|access-date=October 3, 2016|author=Mercer, Mark}}</ref>

On July 9, 2004, her 40th birthday, Love was arrested for failing to make a court appearance for the March 2004 charges, and taken to [[Bellevue Hospital]], allegedly incoherent, where she was placed on a 72-hour watch.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/2004/07/14/courtney-love-hospitalized-again/|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=July 14, 2004|title=Live Through This|author=Susman, Gary|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141207222031/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,663753,00.html|archive-date=December 7, 2014}}</ref> According to police, she was believed to be a potential danger to herself, but deemed mentally sound and released to a rehab facility two days later.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gothamist.com/2004/07/10/courtney_love_finally_goes_to_bellevue.php|work=[[Gothamist]]|title=Courtney Love Finally Goes to Bellevue|first=Jen|last=Chung|date=July 10, 2004|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111018080009/http://gothamist.com/2004/07/10/courtney_love_finally_goes_to_bellevue.php|archive-date=October 18, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Nothing-stops-Courtney-Love-she-s-been-2686581.php|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|title=Nothing stops Courtney Love – she's been arrested, hauled off to Bellevue, but she hasn't quit speaking her mind|first=Neva|last=Chonin|date=October 25, 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208120754/https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Nothing-stops-Courtney-Love-she-s-been-2686581.php|archive-date=December 8, 2015}}</ref> Amidst public criticism and press coverage, comedian [[Margaret Cho]] published an opinion piece, "Courtney Deserves Better from Feminists", arguing that negative associations of Love with her drug and personal problems (including from feminists) overshadowed her music and wellbeing.<ref>{{cite web|work=Margaret Cho Official Site|title=Courtney Deserves Better from Feminists|date=July 13, 2004|archive-url=https://archive.today/20171008091039/http://margaretcho.com/2004/07/13/courtney-deserves-better-from-feminists/|archive-date=October 8, 2017|url=http://margaretcho.com/2004/07/13/courtney-deserves-better-from-feminists/|author=Cho, Margaret|url-status=dead|author-link=Margaret Cho}}</ref> Love pleaded guilty in October 2004 to [[disorderly conduct]] over the incident in East Village.<ref>{{Cite news|author=Tavernise, Sabrina|date=October 21, 2004|title=Courtney Love Enters Plea, and Nobody Else Gets Hurt|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/21/nyregion/courtney-love-enters-plea-and-nobody-else-gets-hurt.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150829082832/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/21/nyregion/courtney-love-enters-plea-and-nobody-else-gets-hurt.html|archive-date=August 29, 2015}}</ref>

[[File:Courtney Love on stage.jpg|thumb|right|Love performing in London, 2007|alt=Woman in corset holding microphone onstage]]
Love's appearance as a [[Roast (comedy)|roaster]] on the ''[[Comedy Central Roast]]'' of [[Pamela Anderson]] in August 2005, in which she appeared intoxicated and disheveled, attracted further media attention.<ref name=heffernan>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/13/arts/television/roasters-of-stacked-star-romp-high-to-low.html|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614071727/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/13/arts/television/roasters-of-stacked-star-romp-high-to-low.html|archive-date=June 14, 2018|title=Roast of Pamela Anderson – Review|author=Heffernan, Virginia|date=August 13, 2005}}</ref> One review said that Love "acted as if she belonged in an institution".<ref name=heffernan/> Six days after the broadcast, Love was sentenced to a 28-day lockdown rehab program for being under the influence of a controlled substance, violating her [[probation]].<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|title=Courtney Love Ordered Into Drug Rehab|date=August 19, 2005|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/61711/courtney-love-ordered-into-drug-rehab|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614182256/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/61711/courtney-love-ordered-into-drug-rehab|archive-date=June 14, 2018}}</ref> To avoid jail time, she accepted an additional 180-day rehab sentence in September 2005.<ref>{{cite web|work=Today|title=Courtney Love sentenced to 180 days in rehab|date=September 16, 2005|url=https://www.today.com/popculture/courtney-love-sentenced-180-days-rehab-wbna9371446|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614071717/https://www.today.com/popculture/courtney-love-sentenced-180-days-rehab-wbna9371446|archive-date=June 14, 2018}}</ref> In November 2005, after completing the program, Love was discharged from the rehab center under the provision that she complete further [[Ambulatory care|outpatient]] rehab.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.today.com/news/judge-lets-courtney-love-leave-rehab-center-wbna10102413|work=[[Today (American TV program)|Today]]|title=Judge lets Courtney Love leave rehab|date=November 18, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180409171801/https://www.today.com/news/judge-lets-courtney-love-leave-rehab-center-wbna10102413|archive-date=April 9, 2018|access-date=April 9, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> In subsequent interviews, Love said she had been addicted to substances including prescription drugs, [[cocaine]], and [[crack cocaine]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newsroom.mtv.com/2010/04/28/courtney-love-letterman/|work=[[MTV]]|title=Courtney Love Says 'Letterman Years' Were Caused By Cocaine|date=April 28, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308184855/http://newsroom.mtv.com/2010/04/28/courtney-love-letterman/|archive-date=March 8, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|work=[[The Atlantic]]|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/05/courtney-love-has-very-clear-memory-addled-drugs/351138/|title=Courtney Love Has a Very Clear Memory of Being on Drugs|date=May 26, 2011|author=Gustini, Ray|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180409171605/https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/05/courtney-love-has-very-clear-memory-addled-drugs/351138/|archive-date=April 9, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> She said she had been sober since completing rehabilitation in 2007, and cited her [[Soka Gakkai International|Soka Gakkai Buddhist]] practice (which she began in 1988)<ref>{{cite news|last=Sevinc|first=Bihter|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10189167|title=Courtney Love Explains Why She Isn't Worried For Kurt Cobain|publisher=RockCelebrities.net|date=June 23, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Catarinella|first=Alex|url=https://nymag.com/strategist/article/courtney-love-favorite-things.html|title=What Courtney Love Can't Live Without|work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|archive-url=https://archive.today/20241214055823/https://nymag.com/strategist/article/courtney-love-favorite-things.html|archive-date=December 14, 2024|url-status=live|date=October 13, 2017}}</ref> as integral to her sobriety.<ref name="drugfreak">{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna43174163|title=Courtney Love: Stop calling me a 'drug freak'|date=June 25, 2013|work=[[Us Weekly]]|author=''Us Weekly'' Staff|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001185217/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43174163/|archive-date=October 1, 2012}}</ref>{{sfn|Roshan|2012|p=28}}

In the midst of her legal troubles, Love had endeavors in writing and publishing. She co-wrote a semi-autobiographical [[manga]], ''[[Princess Ai]]'' ([[Japanese language|Japanese]]: プリンセス·アイ物語), with Stu Levy, illustrated by Misaho Kujiradou and [[Ai Yazawa]]; it was released in three volumes in the United States and Japan between 2004 and 2006.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2004-07-14-princess-ai_x.htm|title=Courtney Love: Cartoon character|first=Kathy|last=Balog|work=[[USA Today]]|date=July 15, 2004|issn=0734-7456|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090814173147/http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2004-07-14-princess-ai_x.htm|archive-date=August 14, 2009}}</ref>{{sfn|Yadao|2009|p=54}} In 2006, Love published a memoir, ''[[Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love|Dirty Blonde]]'', and began recording her second solo album, ''How Dirty Girls Get Clean'',{{sfn|Yapp|2006|loc=event occurs at 7:18}} collaborating again with Perry and Billy Corgan. Love had written several songs, including an anti-cocaine song titled "Loser Dust", during her time in rehab in 2005.<ref name="readytorock">{{cite magazine|first=Jolie|last=Lash|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/courtney-love-is-cleared-ready-to-rock-20060203|title=Courtney Is Cleared, Ready To Rock|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610180947/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/courtney-love-is-cleared-ready-to-rock-20060203|archive-date=June 10, 2016|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=February 3, 2006}}</ref> She told ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'': "My hand-eye coordination was so bad [after the drug use], I didn't even know chords anymore. It was like my fingers were frozen. And I wasn't allowed to make noise [in rehab]&nbsp;... I never thought I would work again."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/56894/love-wants-her-throne-back-on-new-album|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|title=Love Wants Her Throne Back on New Album|date=October 20, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180515020858/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/56894/love-wants-her-throne-back-on-new-album|archive-date=May 15, 2018|author=''Billboard'' Staff}}</ref> Tracks and demos for the album leaked online in 2006, and a documentary, ''[[The Return of Courtney Love]]'', detailing the making of the album, aired on the British television network [[More4]] in the fall of that year. A rough acoustic version of "Never Go Hungry Again", recorded during an interview for ''[[The Times]]'' in November, was also released. Incomplete audio clips of the song "[[Samantha (Hole song)|Samantha]]", originating from an interview with [[NPR]], were distributed on the internet in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|author-link=Neda Ulaby|last=Ulaby|first=Neda|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10189167|title=Rebuilding Courtney Love, One Song at a Time|website=[[NPR]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160908121536/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10189167|archive-date=September 8, 2016|date=May 15, 2007}}</ref>