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Courtney Love Ordered Back Into Rehab
08/22/2005 7:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
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A sobbing Courtney Love was ordered into a 28-day drug treatment program after admitting in a Los Angeles courtroom on Friday (August 19) that she used drugs in violation of her probation, according to Billboard.com. Superior Court Judge Rand Rubin told the singer he initially wanted to send her to jail, saying, "I think that you need to hit rock bottom before you make a decision about what you're going to do in the future." The judge relented, however, and told Love that she had to enter a rehab facility by the end of the day.
A bench warrant was issued for Love's arrest earlier in the month after prosecutors presented evidence that Love was under the influence of drugs when she passed out at a party on July 21.
Love's lawyer, Howard Weitzman, said outside the courtroom that Love "had a relapse," but wanted to kick her drug problem: "She's serious. She's sincere. And she's pretty tenacious about getting her life in order." Weitzman did not say how this new development would affect Love's custody of her daughter, Frances Bean Cobain.
Love was on probation as a result of two drug-related arrests in 2003.
She must appear in court on September 16 for sentencing in the probation violations. Judge Rubin said that there will be "further consequences" on that date, adding that he believes Love needs either "a long-term drug program or a long term in County Jail."
The former Hole vocalist and widow of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was praised by another judge in July for making progress in her rehabilitation.
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