Is Courtney Love Mentally Ill?

In case you missed it, last Saturday, while performing at Brazil's SWU festival, Courtney Love had a minor meltdown after an audience member repeatedly held up a photo of Kurt Cobain. “I don't need to see a picture of Kurt, asshole!” she yelled. “And I'm going to have you

fucking removed if you keep holding that up. I'm not Kurt, I have to

live with his shit and his ghost and his kid every day and throwing that

up is stupid and rude and I'm going to beat the fuck out of you if you

do it again.”

On first seeing this, we thought, “You go, Courtney!” Just as Yoko Ono will always be remembered under the specter of breaking up the Beatles, Courtney will never get out from under the shadow of her deceased husband. It must be a heart-breaking, ultra-stressful, and, on some level, insulting thing to be faced with every day.

But then, just as we're with her, she goes and does what she always does: veers right and heads straight on into crazy town. “You didn't get kicked out of a band by him like Dave did,” Courtney yells at the audience member. “Go see the fuckin' Foo Fighters and do that shit.” After that, it's all downhill. Observe: