‘It wouldn’t stop’: Courtney Love says she quit acting after ‘a bunch of #MeToos’

‘Maybe in my next life I’ll be stronger and able to endure it,’ the Hole frontwoman said

Courtney Love at an event in 2019 (JC Olivera/Getty Images)

Courtney Love has revealed she stopped acting after experiencing “a bunch of #MeToos”.

The Hole frontwoman earned a Golden Globe nomination in 1997 for her performance in The People vs Larry Flynt. In the aftermath, she starred in a number of films, including Man on the Moon and 200 Cigarettes.

In an Instagram post, Love said that acting was “fun as hell”, but implied that she experienced sexual misconduct while working in Hollywood.

“I stopped being capable of it after a bunch of #metoos,” she wrote. “No one would believe me, and it wouldn’t stop. So I left, and it left. And I’m good with it.”

She continued: “Maybe in my next life I’ll be stronger & able to endure it. I tip my hat to those who can. It was super fun though.”

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Alongside a carousel of images of Love on the red carpet in the late Nineties, the musician recalled “movie star lessons” given to her by Sharon Stone, and expressed her longing to return to cinema.

“I sure do miss acting sometimes. To the tune of a great director. One of the greatest experiences, as a woman you can have, I think. All the glamour that comes after that is fun, flamboyant, gorgeous! But the trust one can achieve with a great director? It’s one of the most profound things I’ve ever known.”

After a long hiatus from acting, Love briefly returned to the screen in 2014 and 2015, playing an assassin on the US TV series Revenge and a recovering addict rock star on Lee Daniels’s music industry soap opera Empire.

While Love did not elaborate on the “#Metoos” she experienced, she had previously warned young actors to stay away from the convicted rapist and former film mogul Harvey Weinstein.

In a clip that resurfaced in 2017, Love told an interviewer in 2005 her advice to “young girls” wanting to make it in Hollywood: “If Harvey Weinstein invites you to a private party in the Four Seasons, don’t go.” Fifteen years later, Weinstein was convicted of rape and sexual assault.

In a tweet in 2017, Love clarified that she was “not one of [Weinstein’s] victims” but acknowledged that she had “spoken out” about his behaviour in the past.