Courtney Love Claims Brad Pitt Is “Stalking Her” to Play Kurt Cobain and Got Her Fired From ‘Fight Club’

Courtney Love claims that Brad Pitt got her fired from David Fincher’s Fight Club. Pitt starred in the 1999 drama alongside Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf and Jared Leto, but Love was never in the film — and she blames him for her exclusion.

While speaking with Marc Maron on his WTF podcast this week, Love spilled the details about her low-key Hollywood battle with Pitt, and joked about her late husband Kurt Cobain’s tendency to “ruin” things for her – even after his death in 1994.

When asked for an example, she told a story about how he cost her a role in Fight Club. Love claimed that she brought the project to Fincher and was cast as Marla Singer, a character later played by Carter.

Ahead of production, Love alleged that she received a call from film director Gus Van Sant and Pitt saying that they were interested in making a biopic about Cobain. “It was like the Hellmouth opened,” Love recalled.

“This is like 2000, no one has ever done this. And 22 years later, I still kick myself for not having the shark instinct to be like, ‘sure’ and fuck them later. I went nuclear,” she added.

Love continued to say that her former partner, Norton, broke the news to her that evening. “Edward [Norton] gets home. He starts sobbing,” she claimed. “He was like, ‘I don’t have the power.’” Later, she got a call from Fincher confirming that she was no longer cast in the role.

Love insisted that her recollection of the story was not intended to insult Carter, calling her a “genius.” She also stated that she’s never seen Fight Club.

But that wasn’t the end of it. According to Love, Pitt once again approached her about a Cobain project in a separate conversation over a video chat. When he told her he wanted to produce a biopic about Cobain, she allegedly told him, “I don’t know that I trust you and I don’t know that your movies are for profit. They’re really good social justice movies.”

She continued to say that Pitt doesn’t understand her or Cobain, saying, “I was like, ‘If you don’t get me, you don’t get Kurt, and I don’t feel like you do, Brad.'” Love stated that the project Pitt was interested in doing had nothing to do Sants’ Last Days, which follows the last days of a rock musician, said to be loosely based on Cobain.

Love shared that her friend, Cameron Crowe, later told her, “Brad Pitt was put on this earth to stalk you for Kurt,” and said that he’s been vying for the role of her late husband since 1996.