Courtney Love Dispenses Her Seminal Wisdom on 'Behind the Music'

By Nadine Cheung Posted Jun 22nd 2010 05:05PM

Courtney Love is hardly Khalil Gibran's prophet, but she certainly has a unique perspective on, well, everything. On Monday, VH1 premiered 'Behind the Music: Courtney Love' in which the Hole frontwoman opened up about fame, her critics, Trent Reznor and drugs.

While the teaser for Love's documentary portrays a lucid woman ruminating about her past, her clip reel shows audiences the mercurial celebrity people hate to love and love to hate. Case in point: "I get this s*** because I'm the only f***ing chick standing," she says about fame. "And I'm a crazy b****, and I'm a widow and it makes me sick. It's f***ing pathetic. Stop it. Seriously, or I'll f***ing kill you."

Love also admits she has a lot of pent-up anger, which she releases through her music. It's an aspect of the singer that is embraced by her fans with a delicate understanding. "I have to express my rage, I'm really angry," she confesses. "I look at audiences and I like what I see, and when I say f*** you, I say it in a loving manner and they say f*** you right back."

(Warning: Obscenity Overload. This clip is NOT censored and contains explicit language. Watch at your own risk.)

While there's no doubt that Love is b-a-n-a-n-a-s, she also knows how to draw attention, and people are still listening. However, sometimes the critics can be too much, even for the tough-skinned guitarist. "It's really hard sometimes when everyone in the world is picking on you. And that's what started happening. Everyone in the world started picking on me."

"It really, really hurt my feelings -- it was horrible," she continues as tears flood her eyes. "It took a long time to adapt to it and it -- that was trauma. That was traumatic. I didn't ask to be hated. I just don't mind being a b****."

Later, the 45-year-old talks about her relationship with Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, and recalls a time when they retaliated against each other in the press. In fact, Love says Reznor still holds a grudge about the incident. "Me and Trent had a kind of torrid whatever you want to call it," she says. "And then he said in Details that my alleged pregnancy would have to be the immaculate conception. So I said in Spin, don't call your band Nine Inch Nails if you have a three-inch one."

"My band's called Hole," she adds to justify her statement. "It's not called Little Hole, it's not called Big Hole. It's not called Flopping Nonie, it's not called Tiny Rosebud, it's not called Barbie P****, it's called Hole. He's still mad at me about it. Dude, that was the '90s, what the f***?"

Love has a long history of admitted drug use, and in an almost epiphanic moment, she realizes that using Rohypnol, which can lead to blackouts and unconsciousness, may be the reason behind her erratic behavior. "So I was asking somebody, 'Why does Rohypnol have such a bad rap?'" she recounts. "And they said, 'horrible memory loss.' Well that's what happens when I meet somebody and I don't know if I hate them or like them or what, but I know that I did something -- did I f*** them? I don't know -- Rohypnol."

VH1 will be re-airing 'Behind the Music: Courtney Love' for the next two weeks. For more pearls of wisdom, check your local listings.

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Tuesday 22 June

By vera

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What a waste of time in TV, someone with nothing to offer takes 2 hours on air!!!Who the hell is she? Former prostitute, drop out school, current junkie, not a thing to offer, cannot even speak without cursing, lack of inteligence and taste, so many good people dying and we have to co habitat with these brainless so called artist...where is this been artist? LUNI LAND.

By You suck

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You're so much better then she is? You can't even spell intelligence properly. GTFO!

By mw

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Is it me or does Courtney Love look like Marla Trump? When I saw her I thought that was Marla.

Wednesday 23 June

By joe

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she looks more like Maria Ouspenskya

By DrRobert

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I was going to say something about this A- Hole but she's not even worth it.

Friday 02 July

By ella

You just did.

By Mike

- Without any doubt, she IS the one who should take Simon Cowells spot on American Idol

By Karan

Oh, she's still using Rohypnol? Remember when she fed her husband a handful of ruffies in Italy, and he OD'd - he was so pissed at her for that. That was like a month before he died.

By Kat2988

Thats the best pic we have seen of her in a long time.

By Janna

I don't know who she is anymore, this new face is nice, but very, very different.

By Heck

Courtney looks off. Did she get another nose job? Or?

By themeeker

Courtney doesn't have seminal wisdom, but she knows quite a bit about seminal fluid. I thought we were done with her.

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By susan benson

Courtney looks like she took a picture of Farrah Fawcett to her plastic surgeon. She looks better than she did, but just a knockoff.

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By Kim

It's like you took the words right out of my mouth Susan,,,I thought the same thing,that she looked like F.F. after too many visits to the plastic surgeons office..but also like M.M. in a weird way..mw..sorta Farrah/Marla hybrid...better than a few yrs ago but nothing of her real appearance left.

Saturday 06 November

By Ramon Bonet

I thought Courtney looked slammin. Sounds like Courtney needs to stay away from her weird mother. Trent Reznor is such a sleazy douchebag to deny a relationship with Courtney. Like he is so much better than her - arrogant prick.

By spikedance

Courtney Love is a fabulous musician. If she was around in the 70's, she would've been way up there in the punk rock world. To everyone that puts her down, she doesn't want you anyway. Idiotic media has followed her around all of this time, giving all of you an opportunity to voice your opinions. Who the hell wants to hear them? Go back to your tv talent show. That's your speed.

By David

I agree with Spikedance just said! Also, listen to her new cd! It's great.

By Betty

3 Inch Nails....LOL

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