Courtney Love has a new record almost ready to go, and a health scare behind it that she’s just now opening up about.
In an Instagram video posted Friday, Love, 62, gave fans a long-awaited update on her upcoming album. It’s finished, she said, and she put everything into it. But getting there wasn’t easy. Back in 2019, while traveling in England, everything fell apart at once. “My body just exploded,” she said.
What followed was a stretch in and out of hospitals that she never talked about publicly at the time. Love said she dropped to around 100 pounds and lost all her hair. At one point, doctors told her plainly that she wasn’t going to make it. But she didn’t buy it.
Love explained that her instinct to push back against bad news traces all the way back to childhood, when she says adults would try to convince her that what she was seeing wasn’t real. That same stubborn streak, she said, is what kept her from accepting the doctors’ prognosis in 2019. Somehow, against the odds they gave her, she pulled through.
“I’m healthy, which is amazing,” she said.
Love didn’t specify what caused the health crisis, and she’s kept those details private even now, focusing instead on what came out of it. Much of her time in the hospital, she said, doubled as writing and recording time for the album she now considers some of her most personal work.
Looking ahead, Love said touring and performing are what she wants most. “I want to tour more than anything,” she wrote in the post’s caption. “And I want to sing. That’s what keeps my soul and body happy.”
Six years after doctors weren’t sure she’d survive, Courtney Love is not only still here, she’s getting ready to get back on stage.