What The Last Year Of Kurt Cobain's Life Was Like

Nirvana lead singer and chief songwriter Kurt Cobain struggled mightily with stardom and often bore the weight of his generation's problems. Sadly, these pressures became too much, and Cobain took his own life in April 1994. Here's how his tragic final days played out.

In September 1992, Vanity Fair published a profile of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, which detailed the couple's experiences with heroin and strongly suggested that Love used the drug while pregnant with daughter Frances Bean. Shortly after the issue hit newsstands, child welfare services temporarily removed the infant from her parents' custody. After a family court decision in late March 1993, Los Angeles officially ended its supervision of the Cobain household. All was apparently well and good... for about six weeks.

On May 2nd 1993, Cobain returned to the family's Seattle home trembling and in a dazed state. Love determined that her husband was exhibiting the telltale signs of a heroin overdose and tried to end the incident by orally administering a Valium, three Benadryl tablets, and four Tylenols with codeine added, as well as injecting a dose of buprenorphine, a controlled substance that can reverse the effects of too many opioids. Cobain recovered and wasn't arrested, even though the ensuing police report cited his heroin use.

Just over a month later, on June 4th 1993, police once again visited the home at Love's request. The couple had engaged in a heated argument, after which Cobain was charged with domestic assault and had his guns confiscated. Love said the fight started over Cobain's gun ownership, while Cobain later told a friend that it was a confrontation over his drug use.

Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love were grunge rock's king and queen. The pair married in early 1992, just a few months after Love's band Hole released their first album, Pretty on the Inside. That group signed with DGC for their second LP and major label debut, Live Through This, and by the time recording began, Nirvana were massively popular in their own right.

As Cobain was close with much of the band, it was a no-brainer for Hole to involve Cobain in the creation of the new record. Seeing and enjoying Radiohead's summer 1993 MTV hit "Creep," Cobain suggested the band bring in Paul Q. Kolderie and Sean Slade, who had co-produced the band's debut album Pablo Honey. Keep watching the video to see what the final year of Kurt Cobain's life was really like.

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Early troubles | 0:00
Cobain and Hole | 1:34
The VMAs | 2:30
Saturday Night Live | 3:34
Nirvana unplugged | 4:23
In Utero | 5:24
Rome | 6:37
The solo album | 7:51
The intervention | 8:29
Rehab | 10:07
Last days | 11:05

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