Courtney Love Research Paper

Running Head: ALL LOVE

All Love for Courtney
Elizabeth Lemieux
Southern New Hampshire University

Who Is Courtney Love?
Courtney Love is an America singer, actress, songwriter, and guitarist (Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2016). She was born on July 9th, 1964 to Hank Harrison and Linda Carroll (Biography.com, 2017). Courtney married “Nirvana” front runner Kurt Cobain in 1992 and gave birth to his only daughter later that year. Love is infamous for her raunchy behavior and her abuse with drugs (Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2016). In fact, this abuse has been so extreme that Love has found herself in a cycle of arrests and court-mandated rehabilitations (Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2016).

Her parents divorced when she was very young (Biography.com, 2017). Her dad was absent for most of her childhood because of court-ruled restraining orders (NNDB, 2014). This was most likely best for Courtney given the circumstance. Her father allegedly dosed her with LSD when she was only three or four years old (FemaleFirst). While Hank refutes those claims to this day, Courtney still blames him for her present drug and alcohol addiction. Courtney also claims her mother locked her in their backyard shed when she was child (Appelo, 2006). Her mother refutes the claims and rather offers another explanation (Appelo, 2006). According to Linda Carroll in a memoir she wrote about her life, Courtney would often mess with her sisters’ minds in extremely detrimental ways (Appelo, 2006). She was very aggressive as a child playing the piano with her fists and even injuring the family dog (Appelo, 2006). She hallucinated ‘angels’ and overall was a menace to her family. Her mother claims that in order to protect herself and her other children from Courtney’s awful behavior, she let her daughter have the shed all to herself (Appelo, 2006). Carroll’s purpose for this was to keep her other children safe, however, she gave little to no consideration about the negative effects this isolation would have on Courtney. Love supposedly began therapy at six years old and she was exposed to

Her family is known to be difficult and mentally unstable so rather than blaming her own parenting methods, she tosses it all up to biology. This isn’t too hard to believe, however, when her family background is paid close attention to. In fact, her mother and her grandmother both had a similar childhood to this her own. Carroll didn’t know her mother when she was young. She was put up for adoption as a baby and raised by a sexually abusive father and an extremely catholic mother (Appelo, 2006). Carroll recently went on a search to learn more about her biology and discovered that Paula Fox was her biological mother. Fox had a similar struggle to her daughter. In fact, she was actually abandoned as a baby (Appelo, 2006). While each of these circumstances may have been coincidental, their reactions to these hardships were basically identical. Others who are faced with such situations may try to rise above their pain or find a positive way out, however, all three of these women drowned in their sorrow and were faced with more negative outcomes. To conclude, Linda Carroll may be onto something with her claim that Courtney’s troubles are biological. The evidence is just too great to deny