According to a new book, the late rocker Kurt Cobain had started divorce proceedings against his wife Courtney Love shortly before his took his life in 1994. Everett True, a friend of the 'Smell Likes Teen Spirit' singer, reveals in his book "Nirvana: The True Story" that Love and Cobain had a particularly nasty fight, which resulted in him calling his lawyer to start the paperwork.
True even describes Cobain as ending the fight with Love by stubbing out a cigarette on his own forehead.
"In the classic Kurt way of saying f**k you, he put a cigarette out in the middle of his forehead" True quotes Frances Bean's nanny Michael Dewitt as saying.
"If you watch the video (Heart-Shaped Box), there's a lot of makeup on his forehead because it was a really bad scab. He phoned Courtney, got into a fight, and immediately called his lawyer, Rosemary Carroll, to tell her he wanted a divorce," True related to the New York Daily News.
Here is the full press release for the book:
"Everett True is responsible for bringing Nirvana, Hole, Pavement, Soundgarden and a host of other bands to public attention. He introduced Kurt to Courtney, performed on stage with Nirvana on numerous occasions, famously pushed Kurt onto the stage of the Reading festival in 1992 in a wheelchair and was the only journalist allowed into Kurt Cobain's house immediately after his death.'Nirvana: The True Story' is an honest, moving, incisive, heartfelt re-evaluation of a band that have been misrepresented time and time again since their untimely demise in April 1994. As a personal friend of many of the stars of grunge Everett True is in a position to give far more of the detail behind the stories than ever before.
Everett True is the Editor-in-Chief of Plan B Magazine and a former Editor of Vox and Assistant Editor of Melody Maker. He has written books on The Ramones and The White Stripes, both published by Omnibus Press."
