1989 was the first time Kurt and Courtney had ever met. “We bonded over pharmaceuticals. I had Vicodin extra strength, which was pills, and he had Hycomine cough syrup. I said ‘You’re a pussy, you shouldn’t drink that syrup because it’s bad for your stomach.” Kurt always referred to Courtney as “that junkie from L.A.”
Courtney became friends with Nirvana’s drummer, David Grohl. She told him she had a crush on Kurt and Dave said he had a crush on her too. Courtney gave Dave a present to give to Kurt. A Heart Shaped Box filled with seashells, pinecones, a miniature doll and a set of tiny teacups. Heart Shaped Box would later become a Nirvana song. In response to the gift, Kurt didn’t even thank her. He was cautious when it came to being involved with Courtney. “She seemed like poison,” he said.
Right after “Pretty On The Inside” was released, Nirvana released their second album, “Nevermind”, which went on to sell eight million copies. Kurt Cobain was now a rock star. One night, Courtney and Kat were sitting at a bar when Nirvana’s Nevermind album came on. “So we sat there and we drank and drank and drank and got really mad. We realized no girl could have done that. I wanted to write a really good record and I hadn’t done it yet.”
One night Courtney went to see a Nirvana show right after her ex-boyfriend kicked her out of his apartment. She went to the after hours party looking for Kurt while she carried around a big bag of lingerie. Kurt put on the lingerie and pranced around in it. Kurt and Courtney spent that entire night together.
A few months later, Kurt and Courtney again bonded, only this time it was while using heroin. Kurt and Courtney went on so many heroin binges that after so long they would get sick without it. After they had bonded so much over heroin trips, they were became a real couple.
One of the reasons Kurt and Courtney hit it off so well could be because Courtney was Kurt’s opposite. She loved attention; he hated it. She was loud; he was quiet. She was a namedropper; he hated the whole idea of being famous. She was materialistic; he was anything but. Kurt once said, “It’s like Evian water and battery acid. It doesn’t matter weather she’s a male, female, or hermaphrodite, or a donkey. We’re compatible.”
