Courtney Love announced that her new album is complete, while opening up about a health scare she says nearly killed her after relocating from Los Angeles to London in 2019.
In an Instagram video, the Hole frontwoman said she was stepping back from social media for a few weeks. “A lot of you are asking where my record is at. It’s done. It’s kind of been done,” she said. “It’s a really good record. I put a lot into it.”
Love described the illness that followed her move to London without specifying a diagnosis, saying her body “exploded” and that she was frequently hospitalized. She has previously disclosed serious health struggles, revealing in 2021 that she had nearly died the previous year while hospitalized for anemia, during which she said doctors stigmatized her for being an addict.
Reflecting on Hole’s most recent album, 2010’s Nobody’s Daughter, Love called it “spectacularly humbling,” recalling a festival slot at 11 a.m. while Limp Bizkit and 30 Seconds to Mars headlined. She praised the current state of music: “People sound great live. The girlies are amazing. I will be back.”
Love formed Hole in Los Angeles in 1989. The band’s 1994 album Live Through This—released days after the death of her husband, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain—became a landmark of the era. Its 1998 follow-up Celebrity Skin became the band’s highest-charting release, debuting at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 and earning four Grammy nominations. Hole disbanded in 2002; Love released one solo album, 2004’s America’s Sweetheart, and the band briefly reformed for Nobody’s Daughter, which reached No. 15 on the Billboard 200.
Source: Billboard
