HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — If anyone can relate to the current troubles surrounding pop star Britney Spears, it's Courtney Love.
"I know the exactitudes of what's going on, having been there," Love says in a revealing interview with Access Hollywood.
Watching Spears taken away from her home by authorities twice this month, Love can certainly relate to the situation. In 2004, she also was photographed handcuffed to a gurney, whisked away to a hospital because of her own erratic behavior. Love says she worries, knowing full well about the dangerous situation at hand.
"Here is what's gonna happen if she doesn't get help — something very, very bad is gonna happen," the rocker says of Spears. "Marilyn Monroe was strapped to a gurney too, but other than me and Britney, no one else has ever been strapped to a gurney."
Now sober, Love credits actor Orlando Bloom for helping with her recovery. "The Pirates of the Caribbean" star and Love participate in the daily Buddhist practice of chanting.
"We do chant everyday," Love said of her relationship with the actor. "12-step demands that you have a spiritual practice that you do everyday.
"I love Orlando for this," Love continued. "He doesn't mind being outed [as a Buddhist]. I don't mind talking about it because it has changed my entire life, changed everything — restructured my body, restructured my physicality. Truly I can, not all the time, but I can take joy at really ****ty situations."
Love says she's ready to reach out to Spears, having already confronted another young star with past troubles, Lindsay Lohan.
"I went up to Lohan's room one time and there was a show on called '101 Celebrity Oops' and I am like every other one you know, boobs out, legs everywhere throwing **** at Madonna, you know, whatever. I'm like Lindsay, 'Look! Drugs are bad!' " Love said of the encounter.
The former Hole singer says she hopes the public wakes up soon and realizes the dangers that come along with drug use.
"People need to be more educated about drugs and the effect of drugs," she says. "It has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, it is a genetic condition and it is a disease. It's a part of our brain that doesn't care about consequences, doesn't care if our children are gonna get taken away."
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