Frances Bean Cobain Reveals All About Kurt Cobain’s Death
For the first time ever, Frances Bean Cobain has spoken publicly about her late father Kurt Cobain, who committed suicide back in 1994 when she was almost two years old. In an interview with Rolling Stone, she talked about the Nirvana frontman taking his life and how there is a “mythology and romanticism” surrounding him because of his early death.
During the interview, she kept it real when talking about her father and his suicide: “He’s larger than life and our culture is obsessed with dead musicians. We love to put them on a pedestal. If Kurt had just been another guy who abandoned his family in the most awful way possible . . . But he wasn’t. He inspired people to put him on a pedestal, to become St. Kurt. He became even bigger after he died than he was when he was alive.”
Currently, Frances Bean Cobain is 22 years old and a visual artist. She is also the executive producer of the new HBO documentary about her father’s life, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck. She also talked about her father sacrificing everything in him for his music, which the world demanded of him. Because of that, she said, “I think that was one of the main triggers as to why he felt he didn’t want to be here and everyone would be happier without him.”
However, life would have been a lot different for Frances had her father not killed himself. She said, “I would have had a dad. And that would have been an incredible experience.”
