Late Friday, an L.A Judge awarded Wendy O’Connor and her daughter Kim, the mother and daughter of Courtney’s late husband, Kurt Cobain, joint legal guardianship of Frances Bean, pending a full custody hearing now scheduled for February 10.
“Frances is 17 and strong-willed, and this is a decision she made on her own,” adds the Attorney. “No matter what, Courtney loves her daughter more than anything in the world.”
And this isn’t the first time Courtney’s parental control over Frances has been blocked or removed – In 2003 the 44-year old singer was arrested for attempted burglary of her ex-boyfriend’s house. She lost guardianship of Frances to O’Connor for two years after that, but got it back in 2005 when she proved to a court she was now free of drugs.
As for Frances, in a Harper’s Bazaar interview that was published last year she made it clear that her Grandma, who lives in Olympia, Washington, had been a constant, positive force in her life. “She’s probably the person I respect most out of anybody in the world,” Frances told the scribes at the time.
Barring a relapse, the reasons that made Frances cut herself off from her mom are, so far, unknown. But it’s sufficient to say, she just wanted to get away from her crazy mom.
