Courtney Love: Nobody's Daughter | Pretty on the Inside | 192
Even the Rich
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4.4 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Courtney Love always knew she would be famous. Ambition shot her straight to the top of the punk scene, and soon everyone else knew she'd be famous too. But Courtney knew she was lucky to find love with Kurt Cobain. So as she works to build a family with him, she'll have to fight her demons — and his — to keep it from falling apart.
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| 0:00.0 | Wundery Plus subscribers can binge the newest season of even the rich before anyone else. |
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| 0:07.4 | This episode contains references to self-harm, sexual assault, and descriptions of drug use. |
| 0:14.0 | There's also some strong language. Please be advised. It's 1979 in Salem, Oregon, and 15-year-old Courtney Michelle Rodriguez Menley is striding |
| 0:31.8 | down the hallway of Hillcrest Correctional Facility. |
| 0:35.0 | She's rocking brown-feathered hair, plenty of black eyeliner, and bra straps peeking out from under her torn tank top. |
| 0:42.0 | It's a look she's perfected during the two years. peeking out from under her torn tank top. |
| 0:42.7 | It's a look she's perfected during the two years she's lived here. |
| 0:46.5 | Today there's an extra swagger in Courtney's stride, |
| 0:49.8 | because at long last she's getting out. |
| 0:52.8 | She can't wait to finally be free. |
| 0:55.6 | She's been dreaming of this day for months. |
| 0:58.2 | She can't wait to eat some real food |
| 1:00.4 | and sleep in a halfway decent bed in a room with walls that aren't a cinder block. |
| 1:05.0 | But as the big metal double doors open in front of her, she stops short. |
| 1:10.0 | Her ex-Stepfather's blue station wagon is waiting for her. |
| 1:13.5 | Frank is what happens when no one else can be bothered with Courtney. |
| 1:17.6 | He's the closest thing she's ever had to an actual parent. |
| 1:21.0 | When Courtney's mom would get sick of her, she'd send her to live with Frank, even after they were divorced. |
| 1:26.4 | Okay, is this actually a record for how quickly we got to a shitty parent? |
| 1:30.4 | Yeah, the content warning better watch out. |
| 1:32.4 | Nah, You know. |
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