Courtney Love Doubles Down on Her Claim That She Was Fired from ‘Fight Club,’ Says Brad Pitt ‘Kept on Stalking’ Her Over Kurt Cobain Movie

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Dec 30, 2022

Courtney Love is doubling down on her claim that she was fired from the movie Fight Club and she’s making it clear that she’s not a fan of Brad Pitt as a producer.

The 58-year-old singer previously said this week that Brad had her fired from the movie after she refused to let him make a movie about her late husband Kurt Cobain.

After the interview starting making headlines, a source close to the film told JustJared.com, “Nearly twenty-five years ago, Courtney Love auditioned for a role in Fight Club, a role she was never offered at any point. You cannot be fired for a job you didn’t get. It’s common knowledge that roles are not decided by other actors but by the director.”

Now, Courtney is doubling down on the claim in a lengthy statement posted to her Instagram account.

Click inside to find out what she said…

In her new statement, Courtney claims that Brad and director Gus Van Sant “tried to blackmail” her over the Fight Club role “for the rights to a film about Kurt. I lost my shit on them, and by 7pm I was fired from Fight Club. Every word of this is factual.”

Courtney also claims that Brad “kept on stalking” her about Kurt and even had a Zoom call with her about the project in 2020.

Read Courtney Love’s full statement below…

Hi. Regarding a story I told on the @marcmaron #wtf podcast. A story I was never going to tell. Brad pushed me a bridge too far. I don’t like the way he does business or wields his power. It’s a simple fact, and it started during the production of Fight Club.

I understand how much of a game of roulette casting is. I am not here 22 years later bitching about losing a part playing someone’s side piece in a movie.

On the podcast, I recount the day Brad & Gus Van Sant called me from lunch and tried to blackmail me over my role, for the rights to a film about Kurt. I lost my shit on them, and by 7pm I was fired from Fight Club. Every word of this is factual. This was always a secret that I was fine keeping.

It’s a movie. Indeed, I passed on better roles that that. Who cares? The point is Brad kept on stalking me about Kurt.

With all this resentment in our history, one might ask why I took yet another pitch for Kurt’s film from Brad after all these years? It’s because I’m in recovery. And resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies.

I was over being mad about it. Plus, I heard Pitt was dealing with the same demons. So, we might both have changed our spiritual world views. Not to be.

It’s not just the Zoom I had with Brad in 2020 where I said no to @planbfilms & Brad producing it. It’s that I said NO on the Zoom and that was not enough, and I was not heard. I was ignored.

I had no plans to bring it up with Marc Maron but up it came.

I told the story because I felt Pitt would not stop pursuing Kurt -unless I said it in public.

I don’t want Brad to be pissed off at me and become his resentment. I want him to do better. I’m not into assault. Cmon brother Pitt. I wish you well, truly.

If he’s mad at me, that’s his problem. I enjoy him as a movie star immensely. Not so much as a biopic producer.

Hope this clarifies, and thanks for your time.

I’m sure Helena Bonham Carter was utterly meant to be Marla Singer and I do not bear her or Edward Norton or David Fincher or Art Linson — all people whose work & genius I respect immensely — any ill will.

Xx. Nmrk. #GENTLEMAN? #IMNOTAREALBLONDE! Shall we get started” X c

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