Courtney Love: Nobody's Daughter | How Dirty Girls Get Clean | 193
Even the Rich
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4.4 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Courtney Love is famous, in love, and one half of grunge’s royal couple. But hostile press, addiction, and depression combine to destroy her newfound happiness.
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| 0:00.0 | Wundery Plus subscribers can binge the newest season of even the rich before anyone else. |
| 0:04.4 | Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:08.0 | This episode contains references to self-harm, gun violence, and descriptions of drug use. |
| 0:13.3 | There's also some strong language. |
| 0:14.9 | Please be advised. |
| 0:16.0 | It's April 8th, 1994 in California, and Courtney is shivering in a sweater and jeans in her |
| 0:28.9 | room at the Exodus Recovery Center. |
| 0:31.7 | Her hand is shaking as she lights her seventh cigarette of the day. |
| 0:35.4 | She's completely exhausted and she feels like she hasn't slept in weeks. |
| 0:40.7 | Courtney turns on the TV, but all it plays is a soothing montage of birds, beaches, and New Age music. |
| 0:47.0 | This is rehab after all. |
| 0:49.0 | It's the same place that Kurt checked into a week ago. |
| 0:53.0 | Now for the record, Courtney does not want to be in rehab right now. |
| 0:57.0 | She feels like she was managing just fine. |
| 1:00.0 | Sure, she was taking pills to keep things on the level, but she needed something to calm her down. |
| 1:05.0 | She'd been nearly hysterical, driving around LA trying to find Kurt. |
| 1:10.0 | Taking the pills gives her a tiny bit of peace in the middle of all this. |
| 1:14.0 | It's hard to know for sure what she's using, but it's likely Rehipnol and heroin. |
| 1:19.0 | Both of them help her calm the out-of-control panic she's been feeling for the last month. |
| 1:24.0 | But her manager told her that when Kurt comes home, he's going to need a house that's totally |
| 1:28.3 | clean. |
| 1:29.4 | And that includes Courtney. |
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