# Courtney Love has been institutionalized **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 15, 2004, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/courtney-love-has-been-institutionalized/255219 "2004-07-15T04:57:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/courtney-love-has-been-institutionalized/255219/1 "2004-07-15T04:57:06Z")
[And I, for one, am SHOCKED! Simply SHOCKED, I tell you!](http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040714/en_afp/us_justice_people_love_040714190717) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/courtney-love-has-been-institutionalized/255219/2 "2004-07-15T05:24:55Z")
Did I read that right? It wasn’t drugs, it was a _gynecological thing?_ I’m seen some nasty yeast infections up close, but they were never so bad that I thought I should, like, take legal responsibility for the poor creature and shut her up in a room with yellow wallpaper. What the hell? ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/courtney-love-has-been-institutionalized/255219/3 "2004-07-15T05:45:43Z")
Tertiary syphillis. I’d lay a bet. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/courtney-love-has-been-institutionalized/255219/4 "2004-07-15T06:02:27Z")
Oh, Jesus. That’s actually pretty freaking plausible. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/courtney-love-has-been-institutionalized/255219/5 "2004-07-15T06:08:49Z")
Here I thought she was getting ready to play Frances Farmer. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/courtney-love-has-been-institutionalized/255219/6 "2004-07-15T06:16:51Z")
[E Online](http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,14485,00.html) said: > [@](#): > > A spokesperson for the New York Fire Department confirmed that an EMS crew responded to a call at Love’s address for a “miscarriage,” but the rep would not identify the caller as Love. If the institution is in fact a mental institution, it can do nothing but help. It seems that she’s had a number of pretty shitty things happen to her over the years (some of which are self inflicted such as losing custody of her kid) so losing another kid wouldn’t exactly be good for her wellbeing. It could be the 8-ball that finally destroyed her heart (to put it in terms she’d understand). All she’s gone through couldn’t be handled by a well balanced person let alone someone as obvoiusly on the edge of sanity as she is… ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/courtney-love-has-been-institutionalized/255219/7 "2004-07-15T06:29:57Z")
BTW, does anyone know who has custody of Frances Bean? I seem to recall it was Courtney’s parents, but I could be wrong. (And, I’d like to add, that second picture of her in that article was truly horrifying!) ---
**Author:** ![angelicate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@angelicate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/angelicate)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/courtney-love-has-been-institutionalized/255219/8 "2004-07-15T06:34:49Z")
[Blender.com](http://Blender.com) (And apparently the NY Post) said: \*The New York Post reports that police were originally called to the singer’s fourth-floor apartment after receiving complaints that she was throwing bottles into the street. Love was later spotted in the lobby of her building complaining, “Today is my birthday and I had an abortion.” \* Who knows? ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/courtney-love-has-been-institutionalized/255219/9 "2004-07-15T07:07:18Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > BTW, does anyone know who has custody of Frances Bean? I seem to recall it was Courtney’s parents, but I could be wrong. Something like that. Courtney is only allowed to see Frances if C.'s stepfather is present at all times during the visit. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/courtney-love-has-been-institutionalized/255219/10 "2004-07-15T07:09:06Z")
I hope she smartens up. She’s bloody talented and the most charismatic female stagepersonality I know. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/courtney-love-has-been-institutionalized/255219/11 "2004-07-15T13:00:28Z")
I agree she’s bloody talented. Her performance in _The People vs. Larry Flint_ completely blew me away, and while I’m not a fan of _Hole_, it’s definitely got a style all of its own. But [Sweet Mother of God](http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20040714/s/r2510175212.jpg), talk about “letting yourself go”. She’s only 40, ferpetesakes. ---
**Author:** ![mbacko1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@mbacko1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbacko1)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/courtney-love-has-been-institutionalized/255219/12 "2004-07-15T13:01:57Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > [And I, for one, am SHOCKED! Simply SHOCKED, I tell you!](http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040714/en_afp/us_justice_people_love_040714190717) All I can say is that its about time. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/courtney-love-has-been-institutionalized/255219/13 "2004-07-15T13:17:18Z")
Frances Bean is 11 already? God, I feel old ☹ ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/courtney-love-has-been-institutionalized/255219/14 "2004-07-15T13:40:12Z")
I wish her only the best. (I also know that several of us have her on our Celebrity Death Pool lists - so, maybe we don’t really wish her the “best,” more like ‘Clean up enough to be an attractive corpse.’) ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/courtney-love-has-been-institutionalized/255219/15 "2004-07-15T14:20:40Z")
She’s a trainwreck waiting to happen. I think this is the best thing that could happen to her. Once she straightens up, she can get her kid back and try to re-build her life. I feel very sorry for her. She’s obviously very ill and in need of help. I hope she makes it. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/courtney-love-has-been-institutionalized/255219/16 "2004-07-15T15:25:58Z")
I feel bad for her, too. I can’t believe those two pictures are only two months apart. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/courtney-love-has-been-institutionalized/255219/17 "2004-07-15T16:13:03Z")
> [@plnnr](#): > > I wish her only the best. > > (I also know that several of us have her on our Celebrity Death Pool lists - so, maybe we don’t really wish her the “best,” more like ‘Clean up enough to be an attractive corpse.’) I’ve already written my entries for CDP05, and she’s #2, right after Tammy Faye, who is rumored to have terminal cancer. ---
**Author:** ![DaToad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@DaToad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaToad)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/courtney-love-has-been-institutionalized/255219/18 "2004-07-15T19:42:36Z")
It is a shame to see her waste her life. Maybe she has finally hit rockbottom will get the help she needs. I Looked at this link: [http://www.stereogum.com/archives/000669.html](http://www.stereogum.com/archives/000669.html), posted by **AveDementia** in another thread and thought, OMG, she’s taking lessons from Courtney Love. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/courtney-love-has-been-institutionalized/255219/19 "2004-07-15T20:21:47Z")
Speaking as a psychiatric inmates’ liberation front militant and advocate, I’m here to tell you that psychiatric “services” will not… ::pauses in mid-soapbox rant:: waitaminnit, does this mean we might have Courtney Love numbered amongst us? ::visceral shudder:: ---
**Author:** ![theR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@theR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theR)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/courtney-love-has-been-institutionalized/255219/20 "2004-07-15T20:37:05Z")
If Courtney’s mom and stepdad have custody of Courtney’s child, I wouldn’t hold out a ton of hope that she’s much better off than if the child was with Courtney. The biographies I’ve seen about Courney Love seemed to paint a pretty depressing picture of her childhood. I know, I know, that’s a huge surprising considering how she turned out. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/courtney-love-has-been-institutionalized/255219.md?page=2)