Courtney Love Asks Dave Grohl to ‘Man Up’ & Tell His ‘Straight White Male’ Fanbase to Stop Picking on Her

Courtney Love says she’s cool with Dave Grohl — however she additionally has a small bone to decide with the Foo Fighters frontman.

While showing on an episode of The Magnificent Others With Billy Corgan posted Wednesday, the Hole rocker was characteristically blunt when addressing the previous Nirvana bandmate of her late husband, Kurt Cobain. “Grohl, come out with it and just say we’re cool,” she mentioned. “Be man enough.”

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“Man up, because you’re the uber man that has all the straight evils,” 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 additionally referred to as out the drummer for allegedly writing a number of songs about her. “I couldn’t write a song about Dave Grohl to save my life,” she mentioned. “He’s written, like, four songs about me, and they’re hits. I’m like, ‘Wait what?'”

Billboard you will have reached out to Grohl’s rep for remark.

Love and Grohl have had their bumps on the highway through the years. In 2014, the previous criticized the surviving members of Nirvana for becoming a member of forces with McCartney for a 12-12-12 Hurricane Sandy profit live performance. They additionally clashed in court years after Cobain’s demise in 1994 over the rights to Nirvana’s catalog.

In 2014, nonetheless, the pair hugged onstage at Nirvana’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.

Watch Love’s full dialog on The Magnificent Others With Billy Corgan above.

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