By the age of 13 he was smoking marijuana and six years later had his first taste of heroin. In the ’80s and ’90s, it was a full-blown addiction.
Around the same time, he met Love, a woman who was also having troubles. (For the record, she appeared to respond to new reports surrounding his death by posting a photo of herself reading Flamingo Estate’s Guide to Living on Instagram on February 9th.)
Cobain and Love married in 1992, albeit with a different kind of tragic ending than that toxic rock couple, a kind of “Sid and Nancy” of the grunge era. Their daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, was born six months later.
“I always knew our relationship was toxic,” Frances Bean told Rolling Stone in 2015, referring to the couple’s early bond over drugs. “And I don’t encourage them to have children on their own. That’s what I was. It was to solve their problems. … In the sense that they wanted to start their own family as soon as possible because their own family was so chaotic, ‘If we create our own family, it won’t be any different from our family.'”
Instead, the now 33-year-old, who welcomed son Ronin Walker Cobain Hawke with husband Riley Hawke in 2024, added: “It ended up being a million times more confusing.”
