Courtney Love reveals she 'almost died' during harrowing heath battle: 'My body just exploded'

Courtney Love revealed on Instagram this week that she nearly lost her life to a grueling secret medical crisis she suffered in 2019.

The 62-year-old, who has achieved sobriety after previously abusing cocaine, heroin and pills, neglected to specify the nature of her illness.

She recalled that her 'body just exploded,' precipitating a downward spiral in which she 'lost all my hair' and shrank to a mere 100lbs on a nearly 5'10" frame.

Nevertheless, she refused to trust doctors who 'told me I was going to die,' and 'somehow' she eventually recovered to the point of being 'healthy' now, she said. 

Love, the daughter of thrice-married couples counselor Linda Carroll and Grateful Dead tour manager Hank Harrison, claimed her reluctance to believe medical professionals was the residue of the lies adults told her during her childhood.

The grunge icon, who shot to the peak of her stardom in the 1990s as the wife of Kurt Cobain and the lead singer of Hole but has not released an album since 2010, assured her public that her upcoming album was 'done' and 'really good.'

The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for Love for comment. 

Love announced in February 2020 that she had been sober for 18 months, a period covering the entirety of 2019, the year her health drastically declined.

After seven years of silence, she relayed the story of her illness to her fans in a video she posted Friday for her more than a million Instagram followers.

'A lot of you asking where my record is at. It’s done. My record's done. It’s kind of been done. It’s a really good record. I put a lot into it,' she said. 

'And I went to England in 2019, and when I went there, my body just exploded. It just exploded, and I was in hospitals a lot,' Love disclosed.

'I almost died. I lost all my hair. I was about 100 pounds, and they told me I was going to die, and I didn’t believe them,' said the Doll Parts hitmaker.

Love, who has been estranged from her mother on-and-off for decades and who also suffered a longstanding falling-out with her father that lasted until his death in 2022, said her distrust of the doctors was fueled by her upbringing. 

'And when I was a kid - and I think this record is about this - I used to pattern-interrupt the adults, and they’d tell me "red." They’d say red was blue, and then I’d see blue, but blue was blue,' added the Miss World songstress.

'So now that I gaslight myself that maybe, maybe they were right and red was blue, and then I would see purple, and my head would explode. Like f***ing cope with that s***, right? I think some of you can relate to that,' she confided in fans.

'And then, anyway, I never really lost my ability to see that f***ing - that red was red, despite them telling me that red was blue,' insisted Love.

'And so when they said you’re gonna die, I just didn’t believe them. And somehow I got better. I’m healthy, which is amazing.'

She offered assurances to her public that her new album was in the offing, promoting the project in her caption: 'When I made , it i believed this was my last record so I made the record I always wanted to make. I was in the hospital mostly but when I wasn’t all I did was write & record it .'

In the video, she had looked back at the 'humbling' commercial failure of her most recently released album, the 2010 Hole record Nobody's Daughter.

Writing in her caption, she told her admirers: 'I want to tour more than anything. & I want to sing . That’s what keeps my soul & body happy .'