Courtney Love has called out Nirvana’s Dave Grohl for failing to tell his fans that they’re now on good terms after ending their decades-long feud.
The Hole front woman – who was married to Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain for two years before his death – famously sued the band’s remaining members in 1997 to dissolve their limited liability company, which had been formed to manage Nirvana’s business dealings.
While Grohl and band members Krist Novoselic countersued Love, they eventually reached a settlement in 2002, allowing a best-of compilation of Nirvana’s work to be released.
Speaking on The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan podcast over 24 years later, Love said that she squashed her beef with Grohl over a decade ago and that the Foo Fighters star needs to remind his fans of that.
“Like, come out with it and just say we’re cool. Like, come out with it. Right?” she said on the Smashing Pumpkins singer’s podcast on Wednesday (1 April). “Be man enough to man up.”
She claimed that Grohl was “afraid” that he would lose the audience of straight men who look up to him.
“We’re cool, but you won’t say it because you’re afraid you’ll lose your audience?” she said.
“Dave. It would really behoove me if the straight white males that are your base, if you will, stop picking on me. Millennials in particular. Gen Z is not picking on me anymore.”
Corgan added: “I can confirm that I’ve spent time with you and Dave together and Dave doesn’t have any issue with you.” The Independent has contacted Grohl for comment.
Grohl joined Nirvana back in 1990, shortly after which Love and Cobain began dating. They married in 1992 and welcomed their daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, later that year.
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Cobain died by suicide on 5 April 1994 at the age of 27.
Despite Grohl and Love’s legal battle in the Nineties, they both revealed in recent years that they buried the hatchet when Nirvana was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.
Grohl told Rolling Stone in 2024: “Early on in the evening I just tapped her on the shoulder. She turned around and I just said, ‘Hey.’ She said, ‘Hey.’
“Then we gave each other a big hug. I said, ‘How are you?’ She goes, ‘Good, how are you?’ I said, ‘All right.’ And she said, ‘Let’s do this. Let’s rock this tonight.’”
He added that they are “family” and “love each other, no matter what”.
