Post by Dylan on Oct 3, 2005 7:59:07 GMT -5
Love's Mommie Dearest Moment
by Sarah Hall
E-online Sep 30, 2005, 11:15 AM PT
With a mother like this, who needs enemies?
Courtney Love is up in arms over a new tell-all penned by her mother, Linda Carroll, that claims among other things that the troubled rocker started using drugs at the age of 4.
Though Love has admittedly not read the book, titled Her Mother's Daughter and due out in January from Doubleday, she has denounced the memoir, claiming that it is full of inaccuracies.
The singer-actress released a statement through her spokesman, Peter Asher, saying that she finds it "astonishing, and profoundly depressing, that any mother would write a book containing numerous allegations about her own young daughter."
According to the New York Post, Carroll alleges in the book that Love's father used to dose his young daughter with "magic pills" and draw psychedelic designs all over her naked four-year-old body. She claims she eventually had to go to court to prevent him from having unsupervised visits with the child.
Unsurprisingly, given her mother's claims, Love reportedly started therapy at age 6. By age 9, she was caught reading porn magazines in an adult bookstore and by 12, she had started drinking heavily.
Carroll states that Love was kicked out of every school in which she enrolled and was eventually sent to a residential center for kids with severe behavioral problems after an incident that occurred one Christmas eve when the preteen drank until she vomited and then began cutting herself.
However, the center couldn't contain Love, who repeatedly broke out and wound up living on the streets, where she became involved in hard drugs. She was then detained in a juvenile facility until she was 16.
"Violent mood swings, troubles with attachment, terrible dreams, and a sense of persecution had plagued her all her life," Carroll writes, per the Post.
Asher called the book "a work of vicious and greedy fiction" and said that Love would not dignify Carroll's claims with individual responses.
He said that Carroll abandoned Love when she was seven and that the musician barely knows her.
Whether or not her mother's claims are valid, it's no secret that Love has had more than her fair share of troubles over the years.
Earlier this month, the legally challenged rocker was sentenced to 180 days in a live-in drug treatment facility after pleading guilty to violating her probation.
by Sarah Hall
E-online Sep 30, 2005, 11:15 AM PT
With a mother like this, who needs enemies?
Courtney Love is up in arms over a new tell-all penned by her mother, Linda Carroll, that claims among other things that the troubled rocker started using drugs at the age of 4.
Though Love has admittedly not read the book, titled Her Mother's Daughter and due out in January from Doubleday, she has denounced the memoir, claiming that it is full of inaccuracies.
The singer-actress released a statement through her spokesman, Peter Asher, saying that she finds it "astonishing, and profoundly depressing, that any mother would write a book containing numerous allegations about her own young daughter."
According to the New York Post, Carroll alleges in the book that Love's father used to dose his young daughter with "magic pills" and draw psychedelic designs all over her naked four-year-old body. She claims she eventually had to go to court to prevent him from having unsupervised visits with the child.
Unsurprisingly, given her mother's claims, Love reportedly started therapy at age 6. By age 9, she was caught reading porn magazines in an adult bookstore and by 12, she had started drinking heavily.
Carroll states that Love was kicked out of every school in which she enrolled and was eventually sent to a residential center for kids with severe behavioral problems after an incident that occurred one Christmas eve when the preteen drank until she vomited and then began cutting herself.
However, the center couldn't contain Love, who repeatedly broke out and wound up living on the streets, where she became involved in hard drugs. She was then detained in a juvenile facility until she was 16.
"Violent mood swings, troubles with attachment, terrible dreams, and a sense of persecution had plagued her all her life," Carroll writes, per the Post.
Asher called the book "a work of vicious and greedy fiction" and said that Love would not dignify Carroll's claims with individual responses.
He said that Carroll abandoned Love when she was seven and that the musician barely knows her.
Whether or not her mother's claims are valid, it's no secret that Love has had more than her fair share of troubles over the years.
Earlier this month, the legally challenged rocker was sentenced to 180 days in a live-in drug treatment facility after pleading guilty to violating her probation.