Courtney Love ‘almost died’ during terrifying health battle

Courtney Love is opening up about a terrifying health battle that almost killed her.

The rocker, 62, recalled going to the UK in 2019 and said her body “just exploded” in an Instagram video she posted Friday.

“It just exploded, and I was in hospitals a lot. I almost died,” she alarmingly shared.

“I lost all my hair,” she continued. “I was about 100 pounds, and they told me I was going to die, and I didn’t believe them.”

The Hole frontwoman attributed her reluctance to listen to her doctors to an attitude she’s had since childhood.

“I used to like, 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,” Love said.

“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,” she continued, “Like f—king cope with that sh—t, right? I think some of you can relate to that. And then, anyway, I never really lost my ability to see that f—king that ‘red was red,’ despite them telling me that ‘red was blue.’”

“And so when they said you’re gonna die, I just didn’t believe them.”

Love didn’t share the cause of her illness but said she “somehow” got better.

“I’m healthy, which is amazing,” she noted.

Love urged her fans to be patient about her releasing new music.

“I’m just figuring how to roll things out,” she explained. “Things are great right now.”

She insisted, “I will be back, I wasn’t public about being sick. I don’t want to be public about being sick. You know, I’m fine now.”

The singer gave more details about her new record in the caption for her video.

“When I made it, I believed this was my last record so I made the record I always wanted to make,” she wrote. “I was in the hospital mostly but when I wasn’t all I did was write & record it. I want to tour more than anything. & I want to sing.”

She concluded, “I’m not going to tell people red is blue anymore. Thank you for giving me the grace I need to prepare how to enter the world again.”

Kurt Cobain’s ex-wife’s last album was 2010’s “Nobody’s Daughter,” which is technically a Hole album, despite her being the only member of the band involved.

In March 2025, she said she’d permanently relocated to England to get away from President Trump’s second term as president.