Courtney Love admits using heroin while pregnant with daughter

In forthcoming HBO documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, Love states on camera: “I used it once then stopped. I knew she would be fine.”

Memorably, Love hit out at Vanity Fair writer Lynn Hirschberg after an article claimed she had taken the drug. Hirschberg’s piece features the following account: “After their New York [heroin] binge, it was suggested to Courtney that she have an abortion. She refused and, reportedly, had a battery of tests that indicated the fetus was fine. “She wanted to get off drugs,” says [Jimmy] Boyle [a friend of Love’s]. “I brought her herbs to ease the kick, so she wouldn’t freak out so badly. I was bringing stuff over to her house every day because it’s a whacked-out thing to do to a kid.”

After the article’s publication, Love recorded a bootleg EP at the time titled Bring Me The Head of Lynn Hirschberg and reportedly threatening the writer with violence multiple times.

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