14 DAY TRIAL // In December 2009, Courtney Love, widow of Kurt Cobain, lost the custody of her daughter Frances Bean amidst speculation that she was either in such a dire financial situation that she could no longer afford to care for the minor or abusive towards her. In a recent interview with Rush & Molloy of the NY Daily News, the rocker reveals the entire thing was just a misunderstanding and that, surprisingly enough, Frances was the violent one.
Love is about to make her comeback, her latest single becoming the most added track on radio last week, says the publication. As such, she’s getting her life back in order and one thing she’s looking forward to is getting back with Frances, which will hopefully happen later this year, when she turns 18 and may choose to live with her mother again. Still, as regards talk that Courtney was violent towards her daughter, there’s no truth to that, she explains.
“Mother and daughter fell out last October after a donnybrook at their Tribeca apartment. ‘I was talking on the phone,’ recalls Love. ‘Frances came out of my room. She was hysterical. First she was crying at my legs, saying, Why was I born? Then she bites and scratches and pulls on my hair. She punched me.’ A source who says she witnessed the confrontation corroborates that Love ‘never hit Frances. Not one time. All the punches were coming from Frances.’ Love says, ‘I grabbed her with both arms. That left a bruise and she took a picture of her bruise’,” writes the aforementioned publication.
“By December, a judge had taken Frances away from Love and placed her in the care of the mother and sister of her father, rock god Kurt Cobain, who took his own life in 1994. Love finds it ‘creepy’ that Frances should be represented by Geraldine Wyle, who is also the attorney for Britney Spears’ father, Jamie, in Brit’s guardianship case. Love suspects Jamie convinced Wyle to retaliate against Love after Love claimed that a female member of the Spears family had told her Jamie had molested her. Wyle and a rep for Jamie both declined to comment,” the report goes on to say.
The rocker also tells the publication that she’s been hearing from friends and family members that Frances is now sorry for making this end up in a court of law and that she misses living with her mother. She also believes the girl was misguided by Geraldine Wyle who’s been telling her she’d get a lot of money if she breaks free from her mother, which is clearly not the case. Courtney doesn’t blame Frances though: “Look who her parents are! We were a little lax,” she says.