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Love discusses custody battle
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 16 March 2010
Courtney Love has spoken about the events that led up to her losing custody of her daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, last year.
As previously reported, custody of Cobain, was transferred to her grandmother, Wendy O’Connor, and aunt, Kimberly Dawn Cobain, respectively the mother and sister of her late father Kurt Cobain, following a hearing at the Los Angeles Superior Court late last year. The temporary order, which places the pair in charge of the seventeen year old’s personal and financial wellbeing, was originally due to expire in February, but was extended to April last month.
Although she doesn’t seem confident that the order will not be extended again next month, Love now says that she hopes to have her daughter back with her in time for her eighteenth birthday in August. She is keen to be reunited with Frances, even though she insists it was the teenager’s own actions that led to the court hearing, not her own.
Courtney told New York Daily News: “I was talking on the phone. Frances came out of my room. She was hysterical. First she was crying at my legs, saying, ‘Why was I born?’ Then she bites and scratches and pulls on my hair. She punched me. I grabbed her with both arms. That left a bruise and she took a picture of her bruise”.
