Tragic Details Of Frances Bean Cobain's Life

In March 1994, Kurt Cobain had been struggling with his fame, drug use, and chronic stomach pain when he checked into a hotel in Rome. In what was later determined to be a suicide attempt, he overdosed. After a few days in the hospital, he was allowed to return home to recover. After a handful of frightening incidents, Cobain's friends and family held an intervention for the Nirvana frontman and insisted he check himself into rehab. Sadly, on April 5, 1994, Cobain killed himself, leaving behind his wife and daughter.

Frances Bean Cobain wasn't even 2 years old when her father ended his life, and it stuck with her forever. In a 2014 interview with The Guardian, Lana Del Rey made a statement about wishing she were dead, and Frances Bean was quick to comment about it on X (formerly known as Twitter). "[T]he death of young musicians isn't something to romanticize. ... I'll never know my father because he died young & it becomes a desirable feat because ppl like u think it's 'cool.' ... Well, it's f***ing not. Embrace life, because u only get one life. The ppl u mentioned wasted that life. Don't be 1 of those ppl," she wrote.

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