Courtney Love was born Love Michelle Harrison on July 9, 1964, in San Francisco, California, and got off to a flamboyant start.
Her mother, Linda Carroll, was a prominent therapist, and her father, Hank Harrison, was a follower of the infamous rock icons The Grateful Dead, as well as the author of The Dead: A Social History of the Haight Ashbury Experience.
Who were Courtney Love’s parents?
Love’s early childhood was full of turmoil, and her parents divorced when she was a toddler.
Following a court battle in which her father lost custody of the child, Love’s name was changed to Courtney Michelle Harrison, and her father was denied further rights to visitation.
Love’s childhood continued to be unstable. She shuffled between Oregon, where she was initially raised, and New Zealand, where her mother moved with her third husband to start a sheep farm.
Courtney reacted to all the upheaval with rebellion, floating between boarding and reform school, committing petty crimes and causing a general amount of trouble.
Although she eventually dropped out of school, it was at Skipworth, a reform school in Oregon, that Love came to an important realization.
