Courtney Lovepenned an emotional tribute to late husbandKurt Cobainon what would have been theNirvanafrontman’s 52nd birthday on Wednesday.
He left a note, which read in part, “Please keep going Courtney for Frances,” referring to the couple’s then 1½-year-old daughterFrances Bean. “For her life will be so much happier without me. I love you. I love you.”
Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain.Terry McGinnis/WireImage
Earlier this month, Frances, now 26, opened up about thecomplicated relationship she has with moneyafter inheriting her late father’s fortune.
On a recent episode of theRuPaul: What’s the Tee?podcast, she revealed that she feels “guilt” over the wealth because she “didn’t earn it.”
“My relationship to money is different because I didn’t earn it. And so it’s almost like this big, giant loan that I’ll never get rid of,” Frances said. “I have an almost foreign relationship to it or guilt because it feels like money from somebody that I’ve never met, let alone earned myself.”
Courtney Love, Kurt Cobain and daughter Frances Bean Cobain.Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
“I’d say in the last two years, I’ve taken real accountability at looking at every little thing and talking with the people in charge of my money,” she admitted on RuPaul’s podcast. “And also realizing that you don’t have to live lavishly to live well. … The one way that I was shown how to live was to…live beyond your means and live in excess. It took me stepping away from that and getting sober in order to realize that no matter how much money you think you have, it’s not permanent.”
Frances also took a moment to speak out aboutthe complicated relationship she has with her mother.
“When my mom is on a right and healthy path, she is one of the most fulfilling, beautiful, intelligent and kind people I ever met,” Frances said. “The thing with somebody who is as smart as she is is that she doesn’t know how to sit with herself. Because she’s so deeply empathetic and so intelligent that when she has to just sit inside her skin, she doesn’t know how to handle that. So she’s highly self-destructive because she doesn’t know what to do with all that information and feeling.”
Frances Bean Cobain and Courtney Love.Jason Merritt/Getty
Though the two have had their ups and downs in the past, Frances explained that they’ve entered a new chapter in their relationship.
“I am somebody who only wants to provide the role for her, as somebody who loves her and supports her and has a non-judgmental [perspective] of empathy and compassion that maybe nobody else in her life has,” Frances said. “I don’t want to control her, I don’t want her to do one thing or the other, and I also don’t expect that my opinions are going to deter her decisions. I want our relationship to be based on open communication and love and truth and awareness on how our actions affect the other person.”
“She’s a really good person,” Frances added. “This is what I like to call the era of balance, and I hope that we’re bringing in the era of balance.”
Frances is now following in her parents’ footsteps with a career in music.
Frances Bean Cobain.Stefanie Keenan/Getty
“Kurt’s artistry was on another level,” Frances said. “As a fellow artist, I can recognize how important and substantial his lyrics and his melodies [were] and he was.”
source: people.com
