Hole’s Patty Schemel Wrote the Realest Book About Being an Addict in a Band

Written by Alyson Camus June 3, am responses. Officially, she died from a heroin overdose and her friend Paul Erickson found her dead, on June 16th, , locked in her bathroom with some drug paraphernalia on the floor. The last person who saw her alive was Hole guitarist and boyfriend Eric Erlandson, who visited her the evening before. First, Kristen had just completed drug rehab, wanted to start over and had decided to move to Minneapolis with Erickson; a packed Uhaul was even ready outside.

But was it a relapse nevertheless?

bassist, Kristen Pfaff, died of an apparent heroin overdose last June. (​Erlandson is dating actress Drew Barrymore, who recently appeared.

This was the After photo. She dazzled in her recent acting, social and romantic successes. She also knew exactly what she was: a demon. In interviews and music, Love has always acknowledged and played with archetypes — a witch vengeful and angry female, bog monster of a woman , Medusa or Siren bewitching Yoko slut who drags men, especially deified grunge gods, to their doom , evil widow Touring? Moreover she knew people craved someone in pop culture to enact the roles. Non-fans went to Hole gigs in and to witness The Courtney Show, perversely intrigued by a distraught woman tossing herself into the crowd or starting diatribes about the husband she had just lost.