Courtney Love, the one-woman public relations nightmare, is once again brewing controversy. She seemingly works overtime to garner as much bad press as possible thanks to arrests, court battles and talk show appearances.
Love was again arrested Mar. 18 after a surprise show at New York club Plaid for allegedly throwing her microphone stand into the crowd, striking and injuring a 24-year-old male concert-goer.
Love now faces charges of reckless endangerment and third-degree assault.
Add those charges to the felony and misdemeanor drug possession charges stemming from an arrest in October.
Love has been repeatedly appearing late to court for the charges, if arriving at all, and consistently gaining trial extensions for the case.
Then there was Love’s appearance on David Letterman which aired the evening of her arrest.
Love danced atop Letterman’s table baring her breasts to the talk show host, singing “Danny Boy” and referencing the Federal Communications Commission.
But all of these antics are merely another link to the chain of bad behavior that makes Courtney Love notoriously iconic.
Love has been causing trouble for years using her positions as the former lead singer of Hole, the wife of late Nirvana front-man Kurt Cobain, and later as an actress as her channels to publicize her wild ways.
Trinella Tassin, a kinesiology freshman, said she thinks Love knowingly generates publicity.
“She likes to stay in the paper and she knows that’s the only way they know how to portray her,” Tassin said. “More trouble, more publicity.”
Tassin said she believed this reaction by the media just encourages Love’s cycle of bad behavior.
“She’s always going to jail and getting arrested for things,” Tassin said. “People are accustomed to her, but it’s time to draw the line.”
Love’s behavior may not just be self-detrimental.
Love is currently battling to regain custody after losing her 11-year-old daughter Frances Bean to Cobain’s mother in October after the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services removed her following the earlier arrest.
And many do not believe Love currently is a fit mother.
Mallory Durel, a biology freshman, said Love is not ready to be around her daughter.
“Not right now,” Durel said. “She’s out of her mind.”
Miranda Ambeau, a psychology senior, said Love’s actions at home in front of her daughter could be even worse than what the public sees.
“I believe you are crazier behind closed doors than you are in public,” Ambeau said.
Ambeau said she doubted Love ever altered her behavior to set a good example for Frances.
Destinee Thomas, also a psychology senior, said she thinks Love might be a different mother than people expect.
“She may not act like that around her daughter,” Thomas said. “You can’t judge her by her public life.”
Thomas said Love’s chances to keep custody could be influenced by her fame.
“They don’t take stars’ babies away like regular people,” Thomas said.