The Foo Fighters frontman was a member of Nirvana, the band founded by Love’s late husband Kurt Cobain.

Courtney Love wants Dave Grohl to tell his fans they’re ‘cool’ now, years after feud: ‘Be man enough to man up’

The Foo Fighters frontman was a member of Nirvana, the band founded by Love's late husband Kurt Cobain.

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Courtney Love wants Dave Grohl to call off his fans, whom she says are still giving her a hard time after years of feuding with the Foo Fighters rocker.

"Like come out with it and just say we're cool. Like come out with it. Right?" she said Wednesday on *The Magnificent Others With Billy Corgan* podcast. "Be man enough to man up."

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The widow of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain has a long history with Grohl, who joined the band in 1990.

Cobain died in 1994 at 27.

Afterward, Grohl and the Hole rocker argued, sometimes over Nirvana, in court.

Dave Grohl, RuPaul, Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love, Frances Bean Cobain, and Krist Novoselic in 1993.

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But both said they had made amends when Nirvana was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.

"Early on in the evening I just tapped her on the shoulder," Grohl told *Rolling Stone*. "She turned around and I just said, 'Hey.' She said, 'Hey.' Then we gave each other a big hug. I said, 'How are you?' She goes, 'Good, how are you?' I said, 'All right.' And she said, 'Let's do this. Let's rock this tonight.'"

He added, "We're family, no matter what. And we all love each other, no matter what."

Love said it's important Grohl say the situation between them remains okay, because he's someone that straight men look up to.

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"We're cool, but you won't say it because you’re afraid you'll lose your audience?" she asked.

"Dave," Love said, "it would really behoove me if the straight white males that are your base, if you will, stop picking on me. Millennials in particular. Gen Z is not picking on me anymore."

The Smashing Pumpkins frontman confirmed that he, too, had seen that Grohl and Love have smoothed things over.

"I can confirm that I've spent time with you and Dave together," Corgan said, "and Dave doesn't have any issue with you."

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