Rock Icon ‘Fine Now’ After Overdose Courtney Love Will Appear With Her Band As Scheduled

Alternative-rock icon Courtney Love, hospitalized briefly after an apparent accidental prescription-drug overdose, is “fine now” and will appear in Los Angeles with her band next weekend, a spokesman for her recording company said Monday.

Love, lead singer of the rock band Hole and widow of Nirvana star Kurt Cobain, was hospitalized early Sunday, shortly after arriving here on a flight from New York, Geffen Records spokesman Roy Hamm said from Los Angeles.

Love took some prescription medication before she boarded the plane, he said.

The drug was “something she takes when she flies - similar to Valium, maybe a little stronger. She took too many of them,” Hamm said.

There is no indication the incident was anything but an accidental drug overdose, he said.

“She’s fine now. She’s resting at home.”

Medics were called to Love’s home on Lake Washington early Sunday. Love was unconscious, and a friend said she had taken pills from two bottles containing medication prescribed in New York on Friday, a police report said. All the names in the report were deleted.

The witness - who was on the flight with Love and a second friend - “said that before and during the flight, … she saw the victim take several pills from the bottles … (and) that during the flight, the victim became very groggy,” the report said.