In a new interview with NME, Lemonheads frontman Evan Dando addressed allegations that Courtney Love told husband Kurt Cobain that she was having an affair with him in an attempt to make Cobain jealous.
“She was treating me like her boyfriend, and she was on me the whole time, where it looked like we were doing something,” he said, recalling when Lemonheads toured with Hole in 1993.
Dando wrote about Love’s alleged lie in his recently released autobiography “Rumors of My Demise,” where he firmly denied the rumors.
However, according to the frontman, Cobain was convinced he and Love were having an affair up until the moment he died.
“My first spiritual experience was when Kurt died [in 1994], because I felt that he knew the truth – because he went to his death not knowing,” Dando explained to NME.
“[Nirvana’s] Pat Smear told me Kurt really thought I was having an affair with Courtney. I hope I’m balanced in the book about her, but I couldn’t help saying that the first thing she said to me when grunge broke and everybody had money was: ‘Evan, this is great! We can put hits out on people now!’”
“I felt that Kurt knew the truth a lot after he died,” he continued. “‘Cause me and him had this weird barrier. We were doppelgängers in a way. People who worked with us both said they couldn’t even tell who was onstage. We listened to a lot of the same music and even his singing – I think that early on, he heard our early stuff. There’s something about his voice.
“This sounds like a podcast and it’s so boring and who-gives-a-sh*t, but we could have been friends and it’s a bummer. And I think we are friends now ‘cause he knows the truth. One thing Courtney always used to say was that he said his prayers every night.”
When asked if he thinks Love has read “Rumors of My Demise,” Dando replied: “[Laughs] F*ck, I hope not! I think I might not be alive [if she had].”
