Courtney Love

At 59 years old, Courtney Love has this physical status:

Life and career

Courtney Michelle Harrison was born in San Francisco, California, July 9, 1964, the first child of psychotherapist Linda Carroll (née Risi), and Hank Harrison (1941-2022), a publisher and road manager for the Grateful Dead. Her parents attended a Dizzy Gillespie birthday in 1963, and after Carroll discovered she was pregnant, the two married in Reno, Nevada. Carroll, a child of writer Paula Fox, was adopted at birth. Elsie Fox (née de Sola), a Cuban writer who co-wrote the film The Last Train From Madrid with Love's grandfather, Paul Hervey Fox, cousin of writer Faith Baldwin and actor Douglas Fairbanks, was Love's maternal great-grandmother. Love's godfather, Phil Lesh, is the founding bassist of the Grateful Dead. She was named after Courtney Farrell, the protagonist of Pamela Moore's 1956 book Chocolates for Breakfast, according to Love. A love of Cuban, English, German, Irish, and Welsh descents. Love has three younger half-sisters, three younger half-brothers (one of whom died in infancy), and one adopted brother through her mother's subsequent marriages.

Love spent her youth in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, until her parents divorced in 1970. In a custody hearing, Hank's mother, as well as one of her father's children, testified that she and her father's girlfriends pleaded guilty of LSD poisoning Courtney when she was a child. Carroll also claimed that Hank threatened to kidnap his daughter and take her to a foreign country. Despite the fact that Hank denied these allegations, his detention was suspended. Carroll and Love relocated to Marcola, Oregon, where they lived along the Mohawk River while Carroll obtained her psychology degree at the University of Oregon in 1970. Carroll was remarried to schoolteacher Frank Rodr yokel, who had legally adopted Love. Though Love baptized a Roman Catholic, her mother remained unorthodox, "no dresses, no patent leather boots, no canopy beds, nothing," says Love, "There were hairy, wangly-ass hippies running around naked [doing] Gestalt therapy," and her mother grew her in a gender-free household with "no dresses, no patent leather shoes, no canopy beds, nothing." Love attended a Montessori school in Eugene, Oregon, where she failed academically and socially. She has stated that she first noticed psychiatrists at "like [age] three." Observational therapy. Tots are the product of a TM. "I've been there, you name it," says the author. A psychologist at the age of nine noticed signs of autism, among them tactile protectiveness.

Love's mother divorced Rodrez in 1972, remarried to sportswriter David Menely, and the family migrated to Nelson, New Zealand. Love was accepted at Nelson College for Girls but was immediately dismissed for misdeeds. Carroll brought Love back to Portland, Oregon, for the benefit of her deceased stepfather and several family acquaintances. Love was arrested for shoplifting from a Portland department store and remanded at Hillcrest Correctional Facility, a juvenile hall in Salem, Oregon, at age 14. Patti Smith, the Runaway Kings, and the Pretenders, who later inspired her to form a band, became familiar with their music while at Hillcrest. She was in foster care from late 1979 to 1980, after which she remained largely alienated from her mother. Love spent two months in Japan as a topless dancer, but was banned after her passport was confiscated. She returned to Portland and began working at Mary's Club, adopting the surname Love to conceal her identity; she later adopted Love as her surname. She performed odd jobs, including as a DJ at a gay bar. Love said she lacked social skills and learned them when attending gay bars and spending time with drag queens. She attended Portland State University, studying both English and philosophy during this time. She later revealed that if she had not found a passion for music, she would have pursued a career with children.

Love was given a small trust fund that had been left by her maternal grandparents, which she used to travel to Dublin, Ireland, where her biological father was living. She audited Trinity College's theology department, focusing on theology for two semesters. She later received honorary support from Trinity's University Philosophical Society. Love met musician Julian Cope of the Teardrop Explodes at one of the band's shows while in Dublin. Cope loved Love and told her he could stay at his Liverpool home in his absence. She travelled to London, where Robin Barbur, her friend and potential bandmate, was on display. Love and Barbur, a recalling Cope's call, arrived in Cope's home with him and several other artists, including Pete de Freitas of Echo & the Bunnymen, and the Bunnymen. At first, De Freitas was reluctant to allow the girls to stay, but eventually relinquished as they were "alarmingly young and obviously had nowhere else to go." "They just took me in." Love recalled: "They just took me in." "I was sort of a mascot; I would have coffee or tea at rehearsals." In his 1994 autobiography, Head-On, Cope writes of Love, in which he refers to her as "the adolescent."

Love returned to the United States in July 1982. She appeared at a Faith No More concert in San Francisco in late 1982 and begged the audience to invite her as a singer. Love's vocalist had recorded music with Love, but the band had fired her; according to keyboardist Roddy Bottum, who remained Love's companion in the years, the band needed a "male passion." Love returned to working in Hong Kong as an exotic dancer for a brief period of time in Taiwan and then in a taxi dance hall. By Love's account, she first used heroin while working at the Hong Kong dance hall, having mistakenly mistook it for cocaine. Love was pursued by a wealthy male client who begged him to the Philippines and gave her money to buy new clothes while inebriated from the drug. She used the funds to buy airfare back to the United States.

Love began working at Paramount Studios as a teenager, through her then-boyfriend's mother, Bernadene Mann, a costume designer, clears out vintage pieces that have suffered dry rot or other damage. Love became interested in vintage fashion during this period. Ursula Wehr and Robin Barbur, then known as Sugar Babydoll, later returned to Portland, where she and her colleagues formed short-lived musical projects. The Pagan Babies formed after meeting Kat Bjelland at the Satyricon nightclub in 1984. Love begged Bjelland to lead the band as a guitarist, and the two musicians then moved to San Francisco in June 1985, where they recruited bassist Jennifer Finch and drummer Janis Tanaka. According to Bjelland, "[Courtney] didn't play an instrument at the time" other than keyboards, so Bjelland would transcribe Love's musical theories on guitar for her. Several house shows and even filmed one 4-track demo before disbanding in late 1985. Love left Pagan Babies to Minneapolis, where Bjelland had formed the Babes in Toyland, and briefly worked as a concert promoter before returning to California. Lori Barbero, a drummer, recalled Love's time in Minneapolis:

Love enrolled at the San Francisco Art Institute and researched film under experimental director George Kuchar, who appeared in one of his short films, Club Vatican, in order to shift her attention to acting. She also took experimental theater classes in Oakland, which was also taught by Whoopi Goldberg. Love submitted an audition tape for Nancy Spence's role in Sid Vicious biopic Sid Vicious (1986), and was given a minor supporting role by director Alex Cox. She squatted at the ABC No. 42 social center and Pyramid Club in New York City after filming Sid and Nancy in New York City and squatted at a peep show in Times Square and squatted at the ABC No. 14 social center and Pyramid Club in the East Village. Cox appeared in his film Straight to Hell (1987), a Spaghetti Western film starring Joe Strummer, Dennis Hopper, and Grace Jones, shot in Spain in 1986. Critics were dismissive of the film, but Andy Warhol, who appeared Love in an episode of Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes, captured the film's fascination. She appeared in "I Want a Marriage" by 1988 Ramones in which she appeared as a bride among hundreds of party guests.

Love began performing in 1988 and returned to Oregon as a stripper, where she was recognized by customers in a small town of McMinnville, who was dissatisfied by her "celebutante" fame she had earned. Love was driven to loneliness, so she moved to Anchorage, Alaska, to "gather her thoughts," assisting herself by working at a strip joint frequented by local fishermen. "I decided to move to Alaska because I had to get my shit together and figure out how to work," she said in retrospect. "I started this sort of vision quest." I got rid of all my earthly possessions. "I had my old strip clothes and some big jackets, and I hopped into a van with a group of other strippers."

Love began playing guitar and moved to Los Angeles, where she spotted an ad in a local music magazine: "I want to start a band." Big Black, Sonic Youth, and Fleetwood Mac are all influences. Love had recruited guitarist Eric Erlandson, bassist Lisa Roberts, her neighbor, and drummer Caroline Rue, who appeared at a Gwar concert. Love named the band Hole after a line from Euripides' Medea ("There's a hole that pierces right through me") and a conversation in which her mother told her that she could not live her life "with a hole running through her." Love married Leaving Trains singer James Moreland in Las Vegas on July 23, 1989; the marriage was annulled the same year. Moreland, she later discovered, was a transvestite, and that they had married "as a joke." Hole, Love and Erlandson began a long-term relationship.

Love continued to work at strip joints in Hollywood (including Jumbo's Clown Room and the Seventh Veil), accumulating funds to buy backline equipment and a touring van, and rehearsing at a Hollywood studio loaned to her by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Hole appeared at Raji's, a rock club in central Hollywood, in November 1989. "Retard Girl," the band's debut single, was released in April 1990 by the Long Beach indie label Sympathy for the Record Industry, and was performed by Rodney Bingenheimer on local rock station KROQ. Hole appeared on the front page of Flipside, a Los Angeles-based punk fanzine. They released their second single, "Dicknail," on Sub Pop Records in early 1991.

Love, Hole's first studio album, Pretty on the Inside, featured an abrasive sound and contained troubling, graphic lyrics, which were not influenced by Q. The record was released on Caroline Records, produced by Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth with assistant production from Gumball's Don Fleming; Love and Gordon had met when Hole opened for Sonic Youth during their promotional tour for Goo in November 1990; Goo was the first Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Goo Love wrote a letter to Gordon in early 1991, asking her to produce the band's album, which she accepted.

Pretty on the Inside received mainly favorable critical feedback from indie and punk rock commentators, and was named one of the year's best albums of the year by Spin. It gained a following in the United Kingdom, charting at 59 on the UK Albums Chart, and its lead single, "Teenage Whore," debuted at number one on the UK Indie Chart. Many people were led to identify the band as part of the riot grrl movement, a movement with which Love did not identify. The band toured in Europe in favor of the record, headlining with Mudhoney; in the United States, they opened for the Smashing Pumpkins and appeared at CBGB in New York City.

Love briefly dated Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan and then Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain during the tour. Love and Cobain came to know one another in a variety of ways. Michael Azerrad, a writer, claims that the twosome appeared at the Satyricon nightclub in Portland, Oregon, in 1989, although Cobain biographer Charles Cross said Cobain wrestled Love to the floor after she said she looked like Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum. Love's first appearance at Dharma Bums in Portland, and Love's bandmate Eric Erlandson said they were welcomed to Cobain in a parking lot after a Butthole Surfers/L7 concert at the Hollywood Palladium on May 17, 1991. Love and Cobain were re-acquainted in late 1991 by Jennifer Finch, one of Love's longtime associates and former bandmates. By 1992, Love and Cobain were a couple.

Love married Cobain on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii, just after completing the tour for Pretty on the Inside. Cobain wore satin and lace dresses on the occasion that she owned by actor Frances Farmer, and she wore plaid pajamas. Hole's pregnancy cover of "Over the Edge," a Wipers tribute album, was released in April 1993, and Hole's fourth album, "Beautiful Son," was released in April 1993. Frances Bean Cobain, the couple's only child, was born in Los Angeles on August 18. They migrated to Carnation, Washington, and then Seattle.

Love's first big media exposure came in a Lynn Hirschberg profile on Cobain's "Strange Love" in September 1992. Following Nirvana's unexpected success with their album Nevermind, Cobain became a major public figure. Love's manager had encouraged her to participate in the cover story. Love and Cobain had developed a heroin use in the year before, and the article portrays them in an unflattering light, implying that Love had been addicted to heroin during her pregnancy. The Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services investigated, and Frances' custody was temporary given to Love's sister, Jaimee. Love said she was misquoted by Hirschberg and that she had immediately stopped smoking before finding she was pregnant in her first trimester. Love later said that the article had serious implications for her marriage and Cobain's mental stability, implying that it was a factor in his death two years later.

Love and Cobain's first public appearance together at the Rock Against Rape benefit in Hollywood on September 8, 1993, when the two acoustic duets of "Pennyroyal Tea" and "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" were performed. "Doll Parts" and "Miss World," two new Hole songs, were also performed live on Love's forthcoming second album. Hole's second album, Live Through This, was released in Atlanta in October 1993. Kristen Pfaff and drummer Patty Schemel were among the album's new faces on the record, as well as bassist Kristen Pfaff and drummer Patty Schemel. Live Through This was published on Geffen's DGC subsidiary label DGC on April 12, 1994, one week after Cobain died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the Seattle home he shared with Love, who was in Los Angeles at the time. Love was rarely seen in public in the ensuing months, holing up with colleagues and family members. Cobain's remains were cremated and divided into portions by Love, who kept some in a teddy bear and some in an urn. She went to the Namgyal Buddhist Monastery in Ithaca, New York, in June 1994, and Buddhist monks had his ashes solely blessed. Another portion of the clay was turned into memorial sculptures and placed in clay. Kristen Pfaff, a Hole bassist, died of a heroin overdose in Seattle on June 16, 1994. Love recruited Melissa Auf der Maur, a Canadian bassist, for the band's impending tour.

Live Through This was a commercial and critical success, winning platinum RIAA accreditation in April 1995 and receiving numerous prestigious awards. The recording's success, as well as Cobain's suicide, resulted in a lot of buzz for Love, and she was included on Barbara Walters' "Most Fascinating People" in 1995. During Hole's 1994--1995 world tour, her erratic onstage conduct and several court problems dominated media coverage.

Hole's appearance at the Reading Festival on August 26, 1994 — Love's first public appearance after Cobain's death — was described as "by turns macabre, frightening, and inspirational." Love's bewilderment in Bedlam "may have sparked yelling as a result of her... love led her band on the edge of chaos, triggering a sense of urgency that I had never experienced before from any stage," John Peel wrote in The Guardian. Love performed a string of riotous concerts over the next year, with Love often appearing onstage, flashing audiences, stage diving, and even getting into audience contests. One journalist said at the band's Boston show in December 1994: "Love interrupted the music and discussed her deceased husband Kurt Cobain," she said, and then devolved into Tourette syndrome-like rants. The music was fantastic, but the raving was vulgar and insensitive, prompting some of the audience to yell "British."

Love was arrested in Melbourne in January 1995 for disrupting a Qantas flight after getting into an altercation with a stewardess. Love threw a lit cigarette at musician Kathleen Hanna before punching her in the chest, claiming that Hanna had made a ruse concerning her daughter. She pleaded guilty to an assault charge and was sentenced to anger management training. During a Hole concert in Orlando, Florida, two male teenagers allegedly punched them in November 1995. The court dismissed the complaint on the grounds that the teenagers "weren't exposed to any more violence than might reasonably be expected at an alternative rock concert." Love later said she had no recall of 1994–1995, as she had been using large quantities of narcotics and Rohypnol at the time.

Love returned to acting after Hole's world tour ended in 1996, first in small roles in Jean-Michel Basquiat's Jean-Michel Basquiat's Basquiat and the drama Feeling Minnesota (1996), then in Milo Forman's critically acclaimed 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt. At Forman's request, Love underwent rehab and stopped using heroin; she was ordered to perform multiple urine tests under Columbia Pictures' guidance while filming, and passed all of them. Despite Columbia Pictures' initial reluctance to hire Love due to her untrained history, her career gained a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress and a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress. Roger Ebert, a critic, called her role in the film "quite a performance; Love reveals that she is not a rock star pretending to act, but a genuine actress." Several other awards were given by various film critic organizations for the film. Love maintained what the media called a more polished public image, appearing in ad campaigns for Versace and in a Vogue Italia spread, and she was also in a Vogue Italia fashion during this period. Following the introduction of The People vs. Larry Flynt, she dated Edward Norton, co-star Edward Norton, with whom she stayed until 1999.

Hole released the compilations My Body, the Hand Grenade, and The First Session in late 1997, both of which contained previously unveiled content. Love attracted national attention in May 1998 after beating journalist Belissa Cohen at a party; the lawsuit was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum. Hole's third studio album, Celebrity Skin, released in September 1998, featured a stark power pop sound that contrasted with their earlier punk influences. Love spoke about her dream of releasing an album where "art meets commerce"; there are no compromises, it has commercial appeal, and it stays true to [our] original vision." When writing the album, she said she was inspired by Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac, and My Bloody Valentine. Billy Corgan, the Smashing Pumpkins frontman, co-wrote several songs. Critics loved Celebrity Skin, Rolling Stone's "accessible, fiery, and close," describing it as "electrable, fiery, and personal, all at the same time... a basic guitar album that is anything but basic." Celebrity Skin achieved multi-platinum and topped "Best of Year" lists at Spin and The Village Voice. With "Celebrity Skin," Hole's only top-one single on the Modern Rock Tracks chart earned the most coveted single on the chart. Hole promoted the album through MTV appearances and the 1998 Billboard Music Awards, and was nominated for three Grammy Awards at the 41st Grammy Awards ceremony.

The Vista Venus, a low-priced Squier brand guitar that was before the debut of Celebrity Skin, Love and Fender, was created. The instrument had a single-coil and a humbucker pickup, and was available in 6-string and 12-string versions, as well as Stratocaster, a little-known independent guitar manufacturer, and Rickenbacker's solid body guitars. Love described the Venus in an early 1999 interview: "I wanted a guitar that sounded really warm and pop, but that needed just one box to go dirty... And something that might be your first band guitar." I didn't want it to be all digital. I wanted it to be simple, with just one pickup switch."

On the Beautiful Monsters Tour in 1999, Hole toured with Marilyn Manson, but after nine appearances, Love and Manson disagreed over production costs, and Hole was compelled to open for Manson under an interscope Records deal. Hole returned to touring with Imperial Teenage. Hole later regretted the tour due to Manson and Korn's (who also toured in Australia) sexualized the treatment of teenage female audience members, according to Love later. "I don't like" --there are some girls who look like us or like me who are really messed up, and they don't have to be arrested and raped, or filmed having enema contests, and they do not have to be able to be carried out into the audience, and then [I] had to see them in the morning, and they didn't want" to see them, "I'm sure they were [they were] going out

Love received the Orville H. Gibson award for Best Female Rock Guitarist in 1999. Lynne Margulies appeared in the Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon (1999) and then appeared as William S. Burroughs' wife Joan Vollmer in Beat (2000) alongside Kiefer Sutherland. Love was the lead in John Carpenter's sci-fi horror film Ghosts of Mars, but she had to leave after breaking her foot. She suing James Barber, her then-boyfriend, who Love said caused the accident by running over her foot with her Volvo. She returned to film opposite Lili Taylor in Julie Johnson (2001), in which she played a woman with a lesbian relationship; Love received the Outstanding Actress award at L.A.'s Outfest. In the film Trapped (2002), she appeared alongside Kevin Bacon and Charlize Theron. The film was a box-office flop.

Hole had been dormant in the interim. Love formed Bastard, enlisting Schemel, Veruca Salt co-frontwoman Louise Post, and bassist Gina Crosley in March 2001. The narrator said: "Love" was like, "Listen, yeep": "I've been in my Malibu, manicure, and film industry for two years, alright? I want to make a mark. Okay, let's get rid of all the grunge shit behind us, eh? We were being so experimental, singing together, and with a sense of trust growing between us. It was the shit. The group produced a demo tape but by September 2001, Post and Crosley had left, with the Washington citing "unhealthy and unprofessional working conditions" as the reason. Hole revealed their split in May 2002 amid continuing lawsuits with Universal Music Group over their record contract.

Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl, a former Nirvana member, and Love and former Nirvana members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl formed Nirvana LLC in 1997 to handle Nirvana's company dealings. Love filed a lawsuit in June 2001 to dissolve it, blocking the dissemination of unidentified Nirvana information and preventing the introduction of the Nirvana collection With the Lights Out. Love was sued by Grohl and Novoselic, who described her as "irrational, mercurial, self-centered, unmanageable, and unpredictable." "Kurt Cobain" was Nirvana" and that she and his family were the "right heirs" to the Nirvana legacy, according to a note sent by her.

Love was arrested at Heathrow Airport for disrupting a flight and was barred from Virgin Airlines in February 2003. She was arrested in Los Angeles in October for breaking multiple windows of her producer and then-boyfriend James Barber's house, as well as being under the influence of a controlled drug; the ordeal resulted in her temporary loss custody of her daughter.

Love began writing with songwriter Linda Perry after the breakup of Hole and agreed to Virgin Records in July 2003. She debuted her debut solo album, Sweetheart of America, in France just after. Sweetheart, Virgin Records' American debut in February 2004, received mixed feedback. Spin's Charles Aaron of Spin made it a "jaw-dropping act of artistic will and a fiery, appropriate sequel to 1994's Live Through This," and it received eight out of ten, while Amy Phillips of The Village Voice said, "Love is] eager to act out every teenage brat's longing to have a glamorous, high-profile hissyfit, and she turns those egocentric nervous breakdowns into art." Sure, the art becomes less attractive if you've been doing the same stunts for a decade. But, well, is there anyone out there who fucks up better? There are fewer than 100,000 copies of the album. Love later expressed regret for the record, blaming her drug use at the time. Kurt Loder, a TRL artist, told Kurt Loder shortly after it was announced, "I cannot exist as a solo artist." It's a joke."

Love performed on the Late Show with David Letterman on March 17, 2004 to advertise America's Sweetheart. When she raised her shirt several times, flashed Letterman, and stood on his desk, she earned national attention. "The episode was not particularly surprising for Ms. Love, 39, whose most public moments have ranged from extreme pathos, to ferocious feminism, to catfights to incoherent ranting," the New York Times said. During a small concert in the East Village, Love was arrested in Manhattan in the early morning of March 18, allegedly striking a fan with a microphone stand. She was released within hours and appeared at a scheduled concert at the Bowery Ballroom the next evening. In four days later, she called in multiple times to The Howard Stern Show, claiming that the incident had not occurred and that actress Natasha Lyonne, who was at the concert, was told by the convicted perpetrator that he had been charged $10,000 to file a false claim leading to Love's deposition.

Love was arrested on July 9, 2004, her 40th birthday, and detained at Bellevue Hospital, allegedly incoherent, where she was taken to a 72-hour watch. She was reported to be a threat to herself, but she was nonetheless healthy and released to a rehabilitation center two days later, according to investigators. Composer Margaret Cho wrote an opinion piece titled "Courtney Deserves Better From Feminists," arguing that negative associations of Love with her drug use and personal struggles (even from feminists) dominated her music and wellbeing. Love pleaded guilty in October 2004 to disorderly conduct over the incident in East Village.

Love's appearance as a roaster on Pamela Anderson's Comedy Central Roast in August 2005, in which she looked intoxicated and disheveled, attracted more national attention. Love "acted as if she belonged to an institution," one review noted. Love was sentenced to a 28-day lockdown recovery program for being under the influence of a controlled drug, breaching her probation, six days after the show. In September 2005, she started a new 180-day rehabilitation term in order to prevent prison time. Love was dismissed from the rehab center in November 2005 after completing the program under the condition that she complete further outpatient rehabilitation. Love said she had been addicted to opioids, cocaine,, and crack cocaine in subsequent interviews. She said she had been sober since completing recovery in 2007, and she cited Soka Gakkai Buddhist meditation (which she started in 1988) as a key to her sobriety.

Love was engaged in writing and publishing during her legal challenges. Princess Ai (Japanese: ), illustrated by Misaho Kujiragy and Ai Yazawa, was released in three volumes in the United States and Japan between 2004 and 2006. She co-wrote a semi-autobiographical manga, Princess Ai (Japanese: ) with Stu Levy, illustrated by Misaho Kujiradou and Ai Yazawa. Love released a memoir called Dirty Blonde in 2006 and launched her second solo album, How Dirty Girls Get Clean, alongside Perry and Billy Corgan. During her time in rehab in 2005, Love had written several songs, including an anti-cocaine song titled "Loser Dust." "My hand-eye coordination was so bad [after the drug use], she told Billboard that she didn't even know chords anymore." It was like my fingers were frozen. And I wasn't allowed to make noise [in rehab] — I was like that [in rehab]... I'd never thought I'd be back to work." Tracks and demos for the album leaked online in 2006, as well as a documentary called The Return of Courtney Love, which outlined the album's development, aired on British television network More4 in the fall of that year. A rough acoustic version of "Never Go Hungry Again" was also released, as part of an interview with The Times in November. Incomplete audio clips of the song "Samantha," which resulted from an interview with NPR, were posted on the internet in 2007.

Dawn Simorangkir, a fashion designer, launched a libel complaint against Love over a defamatory post Love made on her Twitter account in March 2009, which was ultimately settled for $450,000. Several months later, in June 2009, NME published an article about Love's attempt to reunite Hole and debut of Nobody's Daughter. Eric Erlandson, a former Hole guitarist, told Spin magazine that no reunion could be held without his presence; instead, Nobody's Daughter will remain Love's solo album rather than a "Hole" record. Love replied to Erlandson's remarks in a Twitter post by claiming that "he's out of his mind," says the artist. Hole is my band, my name, and my Trademark. On April 27, 2010, Nobody's Daughter was released worldwide as a Hole album. Love recruited guitarist Micko Larkin, Shawn Dailey (bass guitar), and Stu Fisher (drums, percussion). "How Dirty Girls Get Clean" by Love's unfinished solo album, "Letter to God," "Samantha"), and "Never Go Hungry" were among the Larkin and engineer Michael Beinhorn's "Do No One's Daughter" was written and recorded, but they were re-produced in the studio with Larkin and engineer Michael Beinhorn. Love's tumultuous life between 2003 and 2007, as well as a more acoustic guitar performance than previous Hole albums, was largely based on the album's subject matter.

"Skinny Little Bitch," Nobody's Daughter's first single, was released in March 2010. The album has received mixed feedback. Love "worked really hard on these songs, rather than just babbling a bunch of druggy bullshit and assuming people would buy it," Robert Sheffield of Rolling Stone said on her 2004 flop, America's Sweetheart." "It's Marianne Faithfull's substance-ravaged voice that comes to mind most often when listening to songs such as 'Honey' and 'For Once in Your Life,' by Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine.' The second track is, in fact, one of Love's most raw and vulnerable vocal performances to date... the album gives a rare insight into a woman who has been known for being a victim for as long as she has been. Love and the band performed internationally from 2010 to late 2012, with their pre-release shows in London and South by Southwest receiving critical notice. Love was a participant in Hit So Hard, a documentary that chronicled bandmate Schemel's time in Hole in 2011.

Love launched "And She's Not Even Pretty" in May 2012, a Fred Torres Collaborations in New York, which contained more than 40 drawings and paintings by Love composed in ink, colored pencil, pastels, and watercolors. She co-wrote and performed vocals on "Rat A Tat" from Fall Out Boy's album Save Rock and Roll earlier this year, and she appeared in the song's music video later this year.

Love appeared in spring 2013 advertisements for Yves Saint Laurent after shedding the Hole name and appearing as a solo artist in late 2012. Kim Gordon and Ariel Pink appeared in spring 2013. Love completed a solo tour of North America in mid-2013, which was ostensibly in promotion of a new solo album; however, it was ultimately dubbed a "great hits" tour and featured songs from Love's and Hole's back catalogue. Love told Billboard that she had recorded eight songs in the studio at the time.

Love was the subject of her second landmark libel case brought against her by her former counsel Rhonda Holmes, who accused Love of online defamation and sued her for $8 million in damages in January 2014. It was the first case of suspected Twitter-based libel in the United States to stand trial. The jury, on the other hand, found Love's favour. Love was also ordered to pay a further $350,000 in recompense as a result of a subsequent defamation case brought by fashion designer Simorangkir in February 2014.

Love performed "You Know My Name" on BBC Radio 6 on April 22, 2014 to advertise her tour of the United Kingdom. On May 4, 2014, it was released as a double A-side single under her own name Cherry Forever Records via Kobalt Label Services. Michael Beinhorn produced the songs, with Tommy Lee on drums. Love and former Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson had reconciled and were rehearsing new music together, alongside former bassist Melissa Auf der Maur and drummer Patty Schemel, although she did not announce a reunion of the band. Love explained further about the possibility of Hole reuniting in an interview with Pitchfork on May 1, 2014: "I'm not going to commit to it happening because we want an element of surprise." A lot of will be done and ts will be crossed."

Love was cast in several television series in supporting roles during 2014, including the FX series Sons of Anarchy, Revenge, and Lee Daniels' network series Empire in a recurring guest appearance as Elle Dallas. Love's album "Walk Out on Me" debuted on the Empire: Original Soundtrack, and it debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200. "The prospect of Courtney Love singing a ballad with a group of gospel singers seems faintly frightening," Alexis Petridis of The Guardian praised the track. The reality is amazing. Love's voice matches the careworn lyrics, perfectly evokeing Lana Del Rey's ravaged darkness as she tries to summon up."

Love appeared in a New York City stage performance, Kansas City Choir Boy, a "pop opera" directed by and co-starring Todd Almond in January 2015. "Her voice, never the most supple or bewitching" stage presence, was lauded by Charles Isherwood of The New York Times, who wrote: "Her voice, never the most supple or rangy of instruments, has retained the singular sound that made her her a front woman for the band Hole, never the most supple or rangy of instruments, remains: a plea, a wound, and a threat." The show toured later this year, with performances in Boston and Los Angeles. Anthony Bozza, a journalist, filed a lawsuit against Love in April 2015, alleging a contractual infringement in connection with her memoir's co-writing. Love appeared on Lana Del Rey's "Endless Summer Tour" for eight West Coast shows in May and June 2015. Love performed the single "Miss Narcissist" in Wavves' independent label Ghost Ramp during her tenure. She appeared in a supporting role in James Franco's film The Long Home, based on William Gay's book, and her first film appearance in over ten years; as of 2022, it is unveiled.

Love launched a clothing collection in January 2016 in association with Sophia Amoruso, "Love, Courtney," with 18 pieces based on her personal style. In November 2016, she began filming for A Midsummer's Nightmare, a Shakespeare anthology film made for Lifetime. In Menendez: Blood Brothers, a biopic television film based on Lyle and Erik Menendez' lives, she appeared as Kitty Menendez, which premiered on Lifetime in June 2017.

A 2005 video of Love warning young actresses about Weinstein went viral in October 2017, just after the Harvey Weinstein affair broke news. When Natasha Leggero's red carpet for Pamela Anderson's comedy Central Roast, Love was asked by her if she had any tips for "a teenage girl going to Hollywood"; she replied, "If Harvey Weinstein invites you to a private party in the Four Seasons [hotel], don't go." "I was never one of his victims," she said later on Twitter, "I was forever barred from speaking out by [Critical Artists Agency] for speaking out."

Love was cast in Justin Kelly's biopic JT LeRoy, portraying a film producer opposite Laura Dern for a year. She appeared in the music video for Marilyn Manson's "Tattooed in Reverse" in March 2018, and in April she appeared as a guest judge on RuPaul's Drag Race. Love received a restraining order against Sam Lutfi, who had been her boss for six years, alleging verbal assault and harassment. Lutfi's daughter, Frances, and her sister, Jaimee, were both given restraining orders. A Los Angeles County judge extended the three-year order to five years in January 2019, citing Lutfi's ability to "prey upon people."

Love performed a solo set at the Yola Da festival in Los Angeles on August 18, 2019, which also featured performances by Cat Power and Lykke Li. Love, a heiress to the Sackler family OxyContin fortune, was caught on September 9, after she reportedly offered Love $100,000 to attend her fashion preview during New York Fashion Week. Love wrote that she had relapsed into heroin use in 2018 in a joint statement, claiming that she had recently completed a year of sobriety. Love moved from Los Angeles to London in October 2019.

Love performed "Mother," written and produced by Lawrence Rothman, on November 21, 2019 as part of the horror film The Turning (2020). In January 2020, she was named "one of the most influential singers in alternative culture of the last 30 years" by the NME Awards; NME named her as "one of the most influential singers in alternative culture of the last 30 years"; Following month, she revealed she was writing in minor chords and that saddens me." Love said she had been hospitalized with acute anemia in August 2020, which had almost killed her and reduced her weight to 97 pounds (44 kg) in March 2021; she made a complete recovery in March 2021.

Love's book, The Girl with the Most Cake, was published in August 2022, after a nearly ten-year period of writing.

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