Frances Bean Cobain has revealed a private battle with addiction as she celebrated two years sober.
The daughter of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love did not divulge details of her struggle but spoke about “self destruction and toxic consumption and deliverance from pain”, adding she thought her experiences might be useful to others.
The 25-year-old shared a video of herself in Oahu, Hawaii, on Instagram and wrote: “This moment is a representation of who I am on February 13th, 2018. It feels significant here, now because it’s my 2nd sober birthday.
“It’s an interesting and kaleidoscopic decision to share my feelings about something so intimate in a public forum.
“The fact that I’m sober isn’t really public knowledge, decidedly and deliberately.
“But I think it’s more important to put aside my fear about being judged or misunderstood or typecast as one specific thing.
“I want to have the capacity to recognise & observe that my journey might be informative, even helpful to other people who are going through something similar or different.
“It is an everyday battle to be in attendance for all the painful, bazaar, uncomfortable, tragic, f***** up things that have ever happened or will ever happen.
“Self destruction and toxic consumption and deliverance from pain is a lot easier to adhere to.
“Undeniably, for myself and those around me becoming present is the best decision I have ever made.
“How we treat our bodies directly correlates to how we treat our souls. It’s all interconnected. It has to be.
“So I’m gonna take today to celebrate my vibrant health and the abundance of happiness, gratitude, awareness, compassion, empathy, strength, fear, loss, wisdom, peace and the myriad of other messy emotions I feel constantly.”
Cobain said those emotions inform who she is and force her to acknowledge her boundaries and limitations.
She added: “As cheesy and cornball as it sounds life does get better, if you want it to. I’ll never claim I know something other people don’t.
“I only know what works for me and seeking to escape my life no longer works for me.”
Both Cobain’s parents battled substance abuse, while her father committed suicide in 1994 when she was still a baby.