Courtney Love dedicates heartfelt message to Kurt Cobain on 28th wedding anniversary
‘I recall feeling, deeply, delighted, dizzy, so in love, and knowing how lucky I was,’ singer says
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Your support makes all the difference.Courtney Love has shared an emotional post on Instagram recalling her wedding to Kurt Cobain 28 years ago, describing the late Nirvana frontman as an “angel”.
On February 24 1992, two years after meeting in a nightclub, Cobain and Love were wed on Waikiki Beach in Hawaii. Their daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, was born six months later.
In April 1994, two years after the musicians tied the knot, Cobain passed away, having taken his own life.
On Monday, Love posted a photograph from the couple’s Hawaiian wedding on Instagram, in which they are both carrying bouquets and smiling at the camera.
Love wrote in the caption that she recalled feeling “dizzy” and “so in love” on the day she married Cobain, describing him as having a “strange amazing divinity”.
“28 years ago, we got married, in Honolulu, on Waikiki beach,” the Hole singer wrote.
She explained that on the night of what would have been their 28th wedding anniversary, she spoke to her sponsor, lit candles, chanted, walked her dog and went for sushi with her best friend.
“28 years ago, I recall feeling, deeply, delighted, dizzy, so in love, and knowing how lucky I was,” Love stated.
“This man was an angel. I thank him for looking out for me, many parts of the last 28 years have been torturous chaotic and uphill, and in public? That is the darkest s*** imaginable, it almost tapped my resilience, almost. [sic]”
Love continued, writing: “But between Kurt’s strange amazing divinity, and the honour of a few true friends, the gift of desperation and sobriety. Of a high power and of love, and of empathy, I’m here now. It’ll be ok, f***. I see him on the shore.
“Rocking in the free world. My husband.”
A number of Love’s Instagram followers left supportive comments underneath the post, including actor Busy Philipps, who wrote: “Sending you love.”
Supermodel and photographer Helena Christensen praised the post as “an absolute magically poetic picture of love”.
“You were lucky to meet such an angel and so was he,” Christensen wrote.
“You came out on the other side and he’ll be waiting on the other side.”
Last week, Love shared a captionless black and white photograph of Cobain on Instagram, in which he is looking to the side while holding a guitar.
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