Courtney Love confesses daughter Frances is still #1

[HMG] – In a story whose timing was foreseen by many of her peers in the business, Courtney Love, widow of Nirvana frontman, Kurt Cobain has told the Oxford union her daughter is the core of her life.

Just one day after a court order restricting her access to 17-year old Frances was extended, Courtney, 45, told the world-famous British university forum her daughter was the one thing that consoled her after Kurt’s death in April of 1994.

”What gave me strength was my daughter’s life force. She’s the most important thing in my life,” she told an audience of over 300 students.

Frances is currently in the care of Kurt’s mother and sister, who secured temporary custody at the end of last year.

Courtney then surprised the students by comparing that ongoing saga with another favorite subject — Ancient Greek Myths;

”I’m having my Demeter and Persephone moment with her,” she explained to the crowd.

[In ancient mythology, Demeter [the Goddess of the Harvest,] had a daughter, Persephone, who was captured by Hades, the god of the underworld. Demeter then let all the crops on Earth wither until the other gods got sick of her moping and got the daughter returned.]

While she does not enjoy being regarded as merely ‘Mrs. Cobain,’ Courtney also told of the impact Kurt’s loss had on her and her life. Her new band’s guitarist thought Kurt was cool, but Love disagreed — by a lot;

”He goes: ‘Geez, Kurt was cool’. No, he wasn’t. That [Kurt's suicide] had a horrible effect on our family. It’s not cool.” Love told the students. ”And it was like I was expected to go with him or something?? But I worked. I had to work to get money to feed our child.”

With no counseling or other support, Courtney says her Buddhist faith and lots of chanting got her through. As for her own work, Love seemed almost modest, admitting she was ”not a very good celebrity.”

”I’m a very good rock musician. But when it comes to celebrity I don’t have it right – I couldn’t have a perfume. What would it be called??”

As for her history of drug use, Courtney says it’s just that — history. ”When you’re under 30, okay,” she said. ”But after 40 it’s just ugly.”

And although she was born in San Francisco, Love now calls herself ”Amglish,” having spent time at a private school in Suffolk and living in both Liverpool and Ireland, where Bono was her mentor as an impressionable teen.

”This is where I want to live; Either Oxfordshire or Buckinghamshire,” she confessed. “The first time I came to Oxford I walked around and the bricks were so black – it was all so magical.”

And despite outward evidence, Courtney might even have depth — She told the crowd she’d urged Frances to apply to Oxford, but Frances refused. Then she named Robert Graves as a favorite author, and would take Mozart’s music, not Kurt’s to a desert island if such need arose.

As for favorite films, would you believe Quantum physics videos on YouTube?

”Quantum physics has done my band a world of good,” she opined.

Could that because you can’t smoke them?

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