[quote]She punched Kathleen Hanna because she went up to Courtney and said (and this has been quoted many times) “Where’s the baby? in the closet with an IV drip?” It was not unprovoked. Nobody is pretending Courtney has a squeaky clean record or isn’t narcissistic and ambitious (I like her music but don't find her likeable), but let’s at least deal with facts. That Mary Lou Lord chick is just as much of a star fucker. She still mentions Kurt’s name for media attention because she has done literally nothing else in her life. I also find it odd when people paint her as some messy, fucked up, druggy and insane woman, yet simultaneously this master manipulator who somehow managed to outfox all the Nirvana people, record label execs, journalists, lawyers, criminal investigators, media to get what she wants... [bold]how can she be so out of control yet pulling all the strings? Lol.[/bold]
About the Kathleen Hanna incident.
[italic]Spin[/bold], December 1995:
[quote]On the very first day of Lollapalooza, at the Gorge near George, Washington, the very worst thing that could have happened, did. Sonic Youth walked by with Kathleen Hanna.
[quote]K.H. was my husband’s worst enemy in the world, someone who would stop at nothing to aggravate us. Funny that they refer to her as being in a band. She’s not really in a band. Bikini Kill don’t really play and they don’t really write songs. She’s a political activist who took a bunch of women studies class is at Evergreen, probably the worst college in America for such things.
[quote]It’s after our set - before Sonic Youth’s - and I’m onstage talking to Beck when Eric comes up and says, ‘Kathleen’s behind you. You should give her some candy and freak her out.’ And there she was, sort of smirking at me. I dropped my sweater on the floor, and she sort of whispered under her breath, 'Where’s the baby? In a closet with an IV?’ I just snapped. My hand was filled with Skittles, and a couple of Tootsie Rolls. I just threw them up I the air and went, 'BAAAAAAAAA!’ And then she shoved me and I clocked her. This all happened within five seconds. These big bodyguards grab us, and we’re both being lifted up, and she’s screaming and screeching all sorts of things at me, and I was laughing at her, like 'Go feed the fucking homeless or something.’ I think I had a bag of tostadas as well, mixed in with the candy, so it was raining candy and tostadas everywhere. K.H. said that I attacked her and that I was on drugs and psychotic; you know, all the things that the hicks in Peoria would eat up. Then she went into Sonic Youth’s room and tattled and told them this totally exaggerated, insane story about how I had attacked her out of the blue and sucker-punched her, when in fact I had nine or ten witnesses to the contrary. She charged that I was jealous of her band, that I was ripping off Bikini Kill. I laughed really hard at that one.
[quote]K.H. suffered no damage. I barely got to hit her. Everybody in my band was really disgusted with her, as were those that had witnessed it, because a couple of people had heard what she said. She insulted my daughter and a very, very wicked and evil way. What an incredibly low thing. I actually had intended to give to her the candy and walk away.
[quote] .[On September 26 Love entered an Alford plea agreement to a charge of fourth-degree assault for her role in the Kathleen Hanna altercation. With the Alford plea, Love can have her guilty plea withdrawn and the charges dismissed if she meets the conditions set forth by the court. Love was handed a suspended one-year sentence, fined $285, and is not to punch or physically threaten anyone over the next two years.]
