This young woman has my heart.
Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of the late Kurt Cobain and the we-wish-were-late Courtney Love, has begun to slowly emerge onto the media scene since she turned 18 last year.
She’s showcased her artwork (starting with a nom de plume while she was still underage).
She’s begun attending college at Brown University as an undergraduate.
She’s even bought herself a cozy home in California.
She’s settled in to a long engagement with Isaiah Silva, of The Rambles. Long engagements are a must for young love.
And she has the wherewithal and good sense to put an end to her mother’s recent Twitter rants against Dave Grohl last week (formerly of Nirvana, currently lead singer for the Foo Fighters) over ‘rumors’ that he hit on Frances Bean. We’ll use the term ‘rumors’ here loosely, given that we don’t know where the speculation may have occurred (either with a roommate of Frances Bean, or a driver—as Courtney suggests, but she cannot seem to remember which) or perhaps, in Love’s own sordid mind.
Love went on to speculate that Grohl was chasing after Frances Bean because he had always been “sexually obsessed with” Kurt as well and that he “had that Romney rape thing about him.” Grohl was the first to deny the claims, once they came to his attention (as Love had accidentally sent them to some student in Germany, and not Grohl, as she intended), and Frances Bean took it a step further with her Twitter remarks on the subject:
“While I’m generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn. I have never been approached by Dave Grohl in more than a platonic way. I’m in a monogamous relationship and very happy.”
She then added:
“Twitter should ban my mother.”
Well said, Frances Bean. Your ability to turn out as a somewhat normal human being, given your childhood, is quite remarkable, and you should be commended for it.
Courtney Love went on to apologize to Frances (again, publicly, in the Twitterverse) in baby talk:
“Bean, sorry I believed the gossip. Mommy loves you.”
Frances Bean has been careful to steer clear of her mother in recent years, which has included not speaking with her in some time and also taking out a protective order. I cannot imagine why…
Alexandra
04/16/2012
I love it when a kid can come out normal from all that crazy. Makes me wonder why Whitney’s daughter didn’t make it.
But this is wonderful.
Loved this post.
Sarah
04/16/2012
Thanks! I’m always happy to see someone beat the “crazy apple, crazy tree” odds.
Also, she looks so much like her father, it’s somewhat disconcerting!
miniemoe
04/16/2012
Brown uni? She wishes. I’ve heard from some people who work where she’s intering she’s a dropout. The comic business in cali is fine without Brown graduates, praise the lord.
Lex
04/16/2012
“Twitter should ban my mother” is my favourite. But not far behind is “Romney rape thing”. I feel like when you have too much crazy in your life you run the other way, if you can. I hope she keeps running in that direction.
Sarah
04/16/2012
The Romney rape thing got me, too! It’s funny, but what does it even mean? Romney and I would never be friends– don’t get me wrong– but THAT is who Love gets a rape vibe from??? Really?
Blabla
04/16/2012
Correction: Frances Cobain is 19…She’s born Aug 18 1992
Jesse
04/16/2012
The post says that she turned 18 last year, not this year.
julia
04/16/2012
She turns 20 this year though.
Jesse
04/16/2012
Wow, just when you thought the train wreck might be cleared off the tracks…
Sarah
04/16/2012
Love is a train wreck that will continue well after her death, I’m afraid. I think that decades after her death, we will still be hearing super-weird things about that poor woman.
Lance
04/16/2012
As everone which eyeshot of my blog, twitter, and my contributions to this site know, I’m a Kurt Cobain fanboi. The top seearch on my site is Kurt Cobain sychophant. I wear it well. I keep up with all of this and for first time in my life I’m saying a 19-year-old girl is smarter and more right than a middle-aged woman.
Twitter should ban Court. Because she’s intentionally harming the reps of Frances and Dave Grohl. Two human beings who’ve never hurt anyone.
Sarah
04/16/2012
I’ve always been a big Cobain fan myself (but then again, I love every band from the 1989 BBC Peel sessions), and spent many a year worrying about what fresh hell his daughter may be living through (remember when Love couldn’t keep herself out of court?), so it makes me happy to see that she can respond firmly and maturely!
brahm (alfred lives here)
04/16/2012
Like this post a lot, your tone is bang on — for a young woman, Ms Cobain sounds like she has her shit together, something which her genes cannot really be helping. Smart and classy and most importantly sane.
As for her wackjob mother, besides being a train wreck for the last 20 years, our sympathy is gone, lady… and if you do hear a weird and unseemly rumour about your daughter (presumably not from the voices in your head), maybe a huge loud public accusation on twitter should not be the FIRST DAMN THING YOU DO…?
It’s days like this that my own family looks normal-ish….
Sarah
04/16/2012
I think that sometimes Love gets uncomfortable when people are staring at her and shaking their heads…
Jim
04/16/2012
I kinda get a rape vibe from Romney too.
Sarah
04/16/2012
Can you explain it to me? Because I just don’t see it… what am I missing?
Adrienne
04/16/2012
When you refer to your mother, who did not give you up for adoption or for any other reason, as your “biological mother,” something is very broken. Good for her, for acting like an adult in the face of some much bizarre behavior. I hope she builds a wonderful life for herself!
Sarah
04/16/2012
I agree– when you have to throw in ‘biological’, that says something… who does she consider to be her ‘real’ mother?
julia
04/17/2012
Why would she buy a two million dollar house in california just to go to school at the other end of the country? She’s not going to school there.