14 DAY TRIAL // Marilyn Manson has a new album out, “The Pale Emperor,” and for the past couple of weeks, he’s been doing media interviews to promote it. In his chat with Esquire magazine, he manages to serve up a hefty dish of ‘90s nostalgia, but also to reignite the feud with Courtney Love, Kurt Cobain’s widow.
That would be the feud that he actually says never happened. Egos fly high with these rock stars.
Courtney Love wouldn’t sleep with Manson
Back in the day, Mason toured with Love’s Hole, but the gig only lasted for 9 performances before she dropped out. Manson had said that Hole was the last act he would ever consider taking on the road, but hey, he loved challenges and he wanted to show Courtney the difference between a celebrity and a real rock star, so he agreed to the gig.
Before she married Cobain, Love was linked to Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan, who was also Manson’s good friend at one point. The two reportedly dated again after Cobain’s death, but Corgan and Manson never reconciled after their falling out.
As you can see, relationships between these 3 were as such that if one fell through, the others would too. Despite years-long reports that Manson and Love fought like crazy and continued to feud for years to come, the rocker insists that there was no proper “falling out” that he could remember.
So no, there was no massive fight, and there was definitely no taking sides by Corgan.
“We’ve always been weird with each other, because she’s slept with pretty much every one of my friends, supposedly,” Manson says of Love. “Not me, though. She, one time, told me she was mad at me because I didn’t want to [expletive] her and I was smarter than her. I said, ‘Well, you kind of proved your own point right there on that one.’ But it was cool.”
The two were reunited just recently, when they both landed cameos in FX’s “Sons of Anarchy,” but Manson says that they didn’t really reconnect on set, because most of his scenes were with Charlie Hunnam in prison.
They did meet on a red carpet, he adds, and she had a wardrobe malfunction that he found quite hilarious. But they’re “cool,” he insists.
Love strikes back
Still, he called Love a tramp and she’s not the kind to just accept the insult without fighting back. Shortly after the Esquire interview came out, she linked to it on Twitter and then added a message directly for Manson: the reason they never slept together is that she always assumed he was gay.
Now that she knows that he’s not, Love adds, she’s willing to do the deed with him – and she even appoints an hour for it, saying she has several minutes to spare, which is more than enough to get it done and have a smoke afterwards.
If this feels like high school all over again, it’s because it could very well be.
The Rose McGowan warning from Billy Corgan
Since he’s on the topic of digging up dirt, Manson also recalls the warning he got from former good friend Billy Corgan regarding his fiancée of 2 years, actress Rose McGowan.
“He wrote a strongly worded letter about how Rose McGowan would ruin my life and ruin my career if I stayed with her, which was good advice, and he wrote it as a letter, which is very polite. There is sort of a guy code that I abide by where he totally offered his advice, and he was genuinely just looking out for my best interests,” Manson says.
However, the letter came after a period of not being in touch at all, which Manson found weird and surprising as well. He doesn’t hold a grudge on Corgan and doesn’t seem bitter as he is when he talks of Love: whatever happened between these two, it runs deep, because he seems to despise her.
