Courtney Love has moved past her feud with Dave Grohl, and she believes everyone else should follow suit. The 61-year-old singer addressed her past differences with the Foo Fighters frontman during a recent appearance on The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan podcast on April 1.
While discussing being bad-mouthed in the press, Love encouraged Grohl, 57, to "come out and just say we're cool." She urged him, "Be a man enough to step up." She further alleged that the rocker is "afraid" he'd "lose his audience" if he publicly supported her, the widow of his Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain.
The former Hole frontwoman continued: "It would really benefit me if the straight white males that are your base, if you will, stopped picking on me. The millennials in particular. Gen Z isn't picking on me anymore."
Corgan, for his part, noted that he's spent time with Grohl and "can confirm that... Dave doesn't have any issue" with Love. Love replied, "Say that to his base. It's so stupid."
She further pointed out that Grohl has allegedly written several songs about her. "I couldn't write a song about Dave Grohl to save my life," she said. "He's written like four songs about me and they're hits. I'm like, wait what? What about me? I don't get it."
A representative for Grohl did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.
Grohl wrote the 1995 song "I'll Stick Around" about Love for the Foo Fighters' self-titled debut album. The song features the lyrics, "I've been around all the pawns you've gagged and bound / They'll come back and knock you down and I'll be free." He confirmed in a 2009 book that the track was indeed about Love. He also allegedly wrote the 2007 song "Let It Die" about her.
"[It's] a song that's written about feeling helpless to someone else's demise," he told the Guardian that year. "I've seen people lose it all to drugs and heartbreak and death. It's happened more than once in my life, but the one that's most noted is Kurt. And there are a lot of people that I've been angry with in my life, but the one that's most noted is Courtney. So it's pretty obvious to me that those correlations are gonna pop up every now and again."
The "Everlong" singer was one of just a few people to attend Love and Cobain’s 1992 wedding. But after Cobain died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1994, their friendship splintered.
Grohl publicly criticized Love’s songwriting abilities in a 1999 interview with Howard Stern, per Far Out Magazine, and she later called him a "stupid motherf---er" in an interview with Spin, alleging that Cobain preferred playing with her band, Hole, more than Nirvana.
Love and Grohl were also engaged in a bitter legal battle over the rights to Nirvana’s music, which ended in a 2002 settlement. The two appeared to have mended fences by 2014, though, when they were seen hugging at Nirvana’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Shortly after, Love said on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that she and Grohl had "picked up where we left off after 20 years of suing each other."
"Me and Grohl, we're totally tight," she said. "And I mean look, if you can give up a grudge like that—because there was a lot of crap that went on—I think anyone can do it."
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