Courtney Love, 60, Reveals She Has a ‘Friend with Benefits’

Courtney Love has a relationship update.

The Man on the Moon actress revealed during an appearance on the June 11 episode of Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud podcast that she is seeing someone.

When asked how she deals with jealousy, Love, 60, said that she doesn’t “really get it.”

“I don’t know if I’m being in denial here but I have a friend, and I made friends with him when he was on the up in the art world and he’s done astonishingly well and I could not be happier for him,” she explained. “I have another friend who I met on her come up and now she’s bigger than I’ll ever, ever be and I’m really happy for her.”

When it comes to sexual jealousy, however, Love said: “I’m a libertine, and the person that I most do my romantic crap with is also a libertine, so we are really more friends with benefits.”

“I don’t like talking about them,” she added, “because there’s jealousy around that person.” She wouldn’t name her current partner.

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The actress was previously married to the late Nirvana rockstar Kurt Cobain from February 1992 until his death in 1994. She told Sassy magazine that she initiated the relationship, pursuing Cobain.

“I really pursued him, not too aggressive, but aggressive enough that some girls would have been embarrassed by it,” she told the publication in April 1992. “I’m direct. That can scare a lot of boys.”

“Kurt was scared of me. He said he didn’t have time to deal with me. But I knew it was inevitable,” Love added.

Love also revealed that she found the guitarist “really passionate and cute.” “I couldn’t tell if he was smart, or had any integrity,” she reflected.

Cobain told the publication that he was considering leaving the band, known for “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and “Come as You Are.”

“In the last couple months, I’ve gotten [married] and my attitude has changed drastically, and I can’t believe how much happier I am,” Cobain said. “At times I even forget that I’m in a band, I’m so blinded by love.”

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“I know that sounds embarrassing, but it’s true. I could give up the band right now,” he continued.

The couple share one child, daughter Frances Bean, whom they welcomed in 1992.

After Cobain’s death, Love never remarried but keeps her late husband’s memory alive with tribute posts. She dated Nicholas Jarecki briefly in 2015.

In 2024, she expressed her admiration for Kendrick Lamar, stating that she would love to collaborate with him and admitted to having a crush on the rapper.

“I would love to work with Kendrick Lamar,” Love told The Standard. “I have a mad crush on him,” adding that he’s a “genius.”