Courtney Love Shows Up Naked For New York Times Interview But Striving To Be Trusted Again

(HMG Celebrity News) – Anyone thinking that Courtney Love might mellow with age?  More likely she is just going to proceed from wild trainwreck to crazy old lady if this latest story is indicative.  Here’s a chronology of Love’s public appearances last week: At a screening of the movie “Due Date,”on Monday night,  Courtney Love told a reporter from Style.com that she was trying to take better care of herself.  On Tuesday night, Courtney Love arrives at a party in Midtown 15 minutes after it had ended and posed on a mostly deserted red carpet. Women’s Wear Daily said she looked “slightly dazed.”  On Wednesday night, Love who was to be interviewed by a NY Times fashion and style reporter and, by her own admission, “slightly drunk,” when she asks the interviewer to wait in her room because she is running a little late.  The reporter waits in the room for Love for an hour, until she shows  up naked, with dress slung on one arm and the noted German Neo-Expressionist artist Anselm Kiefer holding her up by the other arm.  Eventually after she leaves the room half naked for a while, Love returns and the NY Times fashion reporter gets her interview.   The interview goes on for more than five hours, and according to the reporter she comes across as calm, funny and well read, with a keen intelligence and a remarkable understanding of the fashion industry, both about its history and the way things work today.  Love admits by her own design, she is using fashion to undo some of the damage that has been done to her reputation and tells the NY Times reporter, “I’d like to be trusted again, like I was at one point,” she said. “I’m not trusted right now. People don’t want to get in trouble. They think that I am probably going to talk about things I shouldn’t talk about, which I do a little bit, but I am really trying to be trusted again.”

On Thursday night, Courtney Love sends the reporter a series of lengthy text messages, as she often does to anyone she meets, but these were unusually coherent. She apologized for what happened the night before and said she felt embarrassed for “living right up to my worst reputation.” She blamed a combination of Zoloft and a cocktail. And she blamed herself.

“I’m so humiliated,” she wrote. “That simply isn’t me. It has been, but I haven’t been such a mess for quite some time.”

Just before 2 a.m., she ended with this:

“I trust you understand that our hearts can take us all to dark and ill timed places. Warmly, Courtney. xx.”

Catch the full NY Times interview here.