HOLLYWOOD – A judge Friday ordered Courtney Love into drug treatment instead of jail for violating her probation on past narcotics and assault charges. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Rand Rubin also extended Love’s probation for 18 months.
Last month, Rubin warned the notoriously unstable rock musician, who had overdosed in July at a Hollywood nightclub, that she was heading toward “rock bottom.” But after receiving reports that Love had been in drug treatment for 28 days, the judge sounded more hopeful.
“I’m very pleased with your progress,” Rubin told Love. “I think it’s an excellent first step on your road to recovery.” Love, dressed in a plum-colored skirt and sweater, did not respond.
“You can just look at her and see she is doing great,” Love’s attorney, Howard Weitzman, said after the court hearing.
Love was on probation when she was taken by ambulance July 21 from the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, where she had been attending a fashion industry party, to Cedars-Sinai Hospital.
Love, 41, had publicly insisted for months that she had kicked her drug habit. Her renewed legal difficulties are expected to have major repercussions on her efforts to revive a stalled career and to maintain custody of her daughter, 13-year-old Frances Bean Cobain.
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