Courtney Love says she’s cool with Dave Grohl — but she also has a small bone to pick with the Foo Fighters frontman.
While appearing on an episode of The Magnificent Others With Billy Corgan posted Wednesday, the Hole rocker was characteristically blunt when addressing the former Nirvana bandmate of her late husband, Kurt Cobain. “Grohl, come out with it and just say we’re cool,” she said. “Be man enough.”
“Man up, because you’re the uber man that has all the straight males,” she continued to Corgan. “And we’re cool, but you won’t say it, because you’re afraid you’ll lose your audience. You’re afraid it’ll affect your relationship with literal Paul McCartney … Dave, it would really behoove me if the straight white males that are your base would stop picking on me.”
Love also called out the drummer for allegedly writing several songs about her. “I couldn’t write a song about Dave Grohl to save my life,” she said. “He’s written, like, four songs about me, and they’re hits. I’m like, ‘Wait what?’”
Billboard has reached out to Grohl’s rep for comment.
Love and Grohl have had their bumps in the road over the years. In 2014, the former criticized the surviving members of Nirvana for joining forces with McCartney for a 12-12-12 Hurricane Sandy benefit concert. They also clashed in court years after Cobain’s death in 1994 over the rights to Nirvana’s catalog.
In 2014, however, the pair hugged onstage at Nirvana’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.
Watch Love’s full conversation on The Magnificent Others With Billy Corgan above.
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