Courtney Love says she blew $27 million of late husband Kurt Cobain's "Nirvana money" after the rock icon committed suicide 20 years ago.
In an interview with the Sunday Times, she said she's somehow still financially okay today.
"I make enough to live on," she said. "I'm financially solvent. I focus on what I make now."
But when it comes to the millions that Cobain piled up being the primary songwriter for the world's most popular band?
"I lost about $27 million," she said. "I know that's a lifetime of money to most people, but I'm a big girl. It's rock 'n' roll. It's Nirvana money. I had to let it go."
The singer indicated that some of the money was spent settling lawsuits, but didn't offer any further explanation. Maybe Hole was simply an expression of the couple's bank account, although Black Hole might've been a little more accurate in light of Love's spending habits.
NME points out that Love recently won a libel case after one of her tweets regarding former attorney Rhonda Holmes was found to be not defamatory. Love had accused Holmes of being "bought off" in a fraud case against those handling Cobain's estate, but judges ruled that Love did not "actively seek" to promote false info.
The other big Love news is that she finally signed off on a Nirvana biopic, and said last month that production would begin within a year.
"I do have a say in it," she said to NME. "So do Frances (the couple's daughter), and Krist (Novoselic) and Dave (Grohl), for that matter, if it touches Nirvana - and it will. I am leading the charge because it's time to do this."
As previously reported, Love said a Hole reunion isn't happening because the band isn't "relevant."
"I don't want to get on the oldies circuit," she said. "I don't need to do that for money. I just want to put out music that is relevant today. [Being] one of the last chicks in a rock 'n' roll band is a weird place to be. It's scary not to be selling out."
We'll guarantee one thing: If Love somehow blows through another $27 million, Hole will be coming to a city near you.
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