Frances Bean Cobain is having a hard time living up to her late father’s legacy — and an even harder time spending it.
The only child of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love appeared on RuPaul: What’s the Tee? podcast and opened up about the complicated relationships she has with her mother and what she inherited from her late father’s fortune.
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Explaining how she feels “guilt” over the money because she “didn’t earn it,” the 26-year-old said:
“My relationship to money is different because I didn’t earn it. And so it’s almost like this big, giant loan that I’ll never get rid of. I have an almost foreign relationship to it or guilt because it feels like money from somebody that I’ve never met, let alone earned myself.”
According to court docs related to Frances’ divorce, the musician earns over $95,000 a month from the former Nirvana frontman’s publicity rights.
While Frances said it used to be a struggle to learn how to manage her money, the self-described “trust-fund baby” got a handle on it after getting sober in 2016. She explained:
“I’d say in the last two years, I’ve taken real accountability at looking at every little thing and talking with the people in charge of my money. And also realizing that you don’t have to live lavishly to live well. … The one way that I was shown how to live was to…live beyond your means and live in excess. It took me stepping away from that and getting sober in order to realize that no matter how much money you think you have, it’s not permanent.”
Later in the episode, the artist spoke about her relationship with her 54-year-old mother, shedding some light as to why Love had a tendency to be “self-destructive”:
“When my mom is on a right and healthy path, she is one of the most fulfilling, beautiful, intelligent and kind people I ever met. The thing with somebody who is as smart as she is is that she doesn’t know how to sit with herself. Because she’s so deeply empathetic and so intelligent that when she has to just sit inside her skin, she doesn’t know how to handle that. So she’s highly self-destructive because she doesn’t know what to do with all that information and feeling.”
Wow. That is highly profound. And compassionate!
Though the two have had a rocky past, Frances said the’ve entered a new stage in their relationship: “the era of balance.”
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She explained:
“I am somebody who only wants to provide the role for her, as somebody who loves her and supports her and has a non-judgmental [perspective] of empathy and compassion that maybe nobody else in her life has… I don’t want to control her, I don’t want her to do one thing or the other, and I also don’t expect that my opinions are going to deter her decisions. I want our relationship to be based on open communication and love and truth and awareness on how our actions affect the other person… She’s a really good person.”
Great to hear they’re patching things up!
Read more highlights from Frances’ candid chat with RuPaul (below).
On why she decided to marry now ex-husband Isaiah Silva at such a young age:
“I got married because I met a guy when I was 17 and newly emancipated from my mother who gave me a sense of normalcy and stability… The idea of marriage, of security a family very early on, was the complete opposite of what my mom did. Cause my mom got married when she was 29 and had a baby when she was 30, and that’s not particularly old but she only had a family life for two years and then she never remarried. So I wasn’t provided with any stability. So I met this guy who presented himself to be stable and normal… but I really was grasping on for some kind of stability anywhere.”
On what her music sounds like:
“[My sounds is like] if PJ Harvey and Fiona Apple got into a fist fight that’s broken up by Dolly Parton, and Jeff Buckley’s crying in the corner.”
On fans comparing her music to her dad’s:
“Kurt’s artistry was on another level. As a fellow artist, I can recognize how important and substantial his lyrics and his melodies [were] and he was… There’s a desperate need for a lot of that fan base to project onto me that I’m the second female coming of Kurt. That is a really big need that needs to be fulfilled… People are going to project whatever they want upon me, that doesn’t mean I have to abide by that at all. But if people need that outlet in order to look at my music and look at my art and say, ‘It’s just like your dad,’ if people need that, if that’s the association they make, that’s a pretty damn good association. There are worse things to be called.”
On standing out in the music industry:
“The reality is, if people give my voice and my music a chance, I think what’s interesting is it’s not replicating somebody else’s thing. It’s really grounded. … my brand is authenticity. That’s what I’m trying to provide in this world, because it’s lacking. … Everything is so saturated and filtered and conceived. What people really are thirsty for… is being able to see somebody for who they are — all the messy bits involved.”
Sounds like Frances Bean plans on living up to the family name.
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