Courtney Love wants Dave Grohl to 'come out with it and say we're cool'

Courtney Love and Dave Grohl have certainly had their issues in the past, but the Hole frontwoman says that they're now good. Still, she wishes Grohl would say that, too.

"Grohl, come out with it and just say we're cool," Love says on the latest episode of Billy Corgan's The Magnificent Others podcast. "Be man enough to man up."

She continues, "We're cool, but you won't say it because you're afraid you'll lose your audience, you're afraid it'll affect your relationship with literal Paul McCartney?"

"Dave, it would really behoove me if the straight white males that are your base, if you will, stop picking on me," Love adds.

Love, of course, was married to Grohl's Nirvana bandmate, the late Kurt Cobain. Following Cobain's death in 1994, Love was involved in a legal battle with Grohl and Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic over plans to put out unreleased Nirvana music.

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