Courtney Love changes name, says she is 'sick' of talking about Kurt Cobain

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Published on April 21, 2010 02:59PM EDT

Image Credit: Ferdaus Shamim/Getty ImagesCourtney has no more use for Love, she tells England's NME magazine (via the BBC).

The Hole frontwoman, whose Nobody's Daughter arrives this week, says definitively, "Courtney Love is dead. We've all decided we don't like her any more."

"We love her when she goes onstage," she continues," but I don't need her in the rest of my life. The name Courtney Love is a way to oppress me." Instead, she will now go by her given name, Courtney Michelle Harrison.

And she doesn't want to talk about Kurt anymore, either. "I am not his spokesperson on Earth. I don't know what he'd be like now, he could be into society girls, he could be into fat girls, he could be homosexual. We don't know, he died at 27."

UPDATE: A spokesperson tells MTV that the name-change sentiment was taken "100 percent out of context" by NME (in which the quote runs verbatim). "She's not changing her name," her rep continues, "unless it's to 'Courtney Love Mellencamp' or 'Big Baby Jesus.'"

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