Frances Bean Cobain, the daughter of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain has opened up about the ‘dynamic’ she has with her father, and how it’s almost akin to the relationship that a fan would have with the late rocker.
As The Daily Mail reports, Frances Bean was in Ireland recently for the opening ceremony of the Growing Up Kurt Cobain exhibition at The Museum of Style Icons. Attending alongside grandmother Wendy O’Connor and aunt Kim Cobain, the exhibition features a vast amount of items from Kurt’s life including, drawings, clothing, hand-written lyrics, and his one and only car.
While speaking for the event, Frances Bean opened up about the influence her father has had on her life, noting that due to her young age at the time of his passing, she has been resigned to having a relationship with him in much the same way a fan of Nirvana would.
“He’s unavoidable in my life, I see a Nirvana shirt every day,” Frances Bean Cobain explained.
“My dynamic with Kurt is probably more similar to a fan’s dynamic as there’s almost like an untouchable thing. All the information I have [about him] is from stories. He’s there every day of my life.”
“On some days it feels a little frustrating, like I’ve had emotional breakdowns in Ubers and he’s come on [the radio] and I’ve been like, ‘I needed you so much right now’,” she continued. “It plays out on different days in different ways.”
While speaking to Reuters, Frances Bean also touched upon the topic of mental health, deriding the social stigma that such issues carry with them.
“There is an association that is shameful and it shouldn’t be,” Frances Bean explained. “It’s taboo … despite the fact that it is present in our society every single day.”
“I think that in Europe it is a little less taboo, I think in America it is very, very frowned upon.”
This news comes only months after Frances Bean also revealed that she hopes to follow in her fathers footsteps, announcing her plans to release her own music at some point in the near future.
“With regards to music, I don’t want to pigeon hole myself and say I am a musician or a visual artist because I feel like it’s all encompassing and I feel like every bit of my art is related to the other,” she explained to E! back in April.
“So do I want to pursue my music further and see it come to fruition and see something further and see something palpable? Absolutely.”
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