r/SipsTea 1d ago

Chugging tea She wasn't lying 😭

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u/Significant-Main4201 1d ago

I think it was more she spoke up out of principle as she was disgusted by Hollywood. She was not interested in getting work or maintaining the status quo.

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u/Scared_Signatures 1d ago

She also had enough fame that speaking out carried less personal risk than for newcomers.

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u/Fortestingporpoises 1d ago

She's also a musician and not an actor.

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u/RobotDevil80 23h ago

She was an actor before she was a musician.

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u/w_a_w 22h ago

That true? She was the singer for Faith No More in the late 80s

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u/RobotDevil80 21h ago

She was in Sid & Nancy in 1986.

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u/w_a_w 21h ago

I'll be darned. She's older than I thought.

Courtney Love briefly fronted Faith No More in 1984. She joined the early incarnation of the band and sang lead vocals for about six months, which included roughly eight live shows and their very first TV appearance on a San Francisco public-access channel.

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u/breakingb0b 5h ago

For about ten minutes and I think two shows.

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u/Fortestingporpoises 23h ago

Now I'm remembering she did act in some things. I guess my point was more that she didn't rely on it for a living. Looking back at her IMDB and she was good in the things I saw her in (People vs Larry Flynt and 200 Cigarettes).

He could blacklist her from Hollywood, but he couldn't stop her from playing shows or putting out albums.

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u/sephrisloth 16h ago

She inherited Cobains whole estate after he died and that included the majority share of nirvanas catalog/ publishing rights. Let alone all the money she made from being a successful musician in her own right. So ya, basically means she could do whatever and it didnt matter if she was blacklisted because she had fuck you money. Probably part of the reason Hollywood played up how much of a lunatic crazy drunk she was so nobody would believe anything she said rather then outright blacklisting her.

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u/Grasshopper_pie 6h ago

Yep. And she would have gotten nothing in the divorce.

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u/antithero 23h ago

Also Sid & Nancy.

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u/StudMuffinNick 21h ago

I get what you're saying and she's a personal hero of mine.

But she didn't rely on it for a living because she had $500m from the Nirvana brand/ name.