Singer Courtney Love is no stranger to making headlines. Throughout her decades-long career, she has been in the news more often than not.
Now, the 60-year-old singer has opened up publicly about her ‘big move’ and what it entails and was inspired by.
Keep reading to know more.
Courtney Love has been living in London for the last five years and is now planning to make the move permanent. The former singer for Hole revealed that in six months, she would qualify for her British citizenship. And as things heat up in the United States politically, the singer seems to be happy at being able to relocate.
Earlier this month, she sat with Todd Almond at London’s Geographical Society and talked about his new oral history Slow Train Coming: Bob Dylan’s Girl from the North Country and Broadway’s Rebirth. She also performed, Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone,” at the occasion.
While the two spoke, she was vocal about her life in London. “I’m really glad I’m here. It’s so great to live here. I’m finally getting my British citizenship in six months. I get to be a citizen. I’m applying, man! Can’t get rid of me,” she apparently said.
Though she did not say the move was a direct result of President Donald Trump being sworn into office, she has in the past been vocal about her disdain for the politician. She had even compared his politics to “emperor-core,” and said things were “frightening now.”
“In terms of Trump, and particularly this group… it’s like emperor-core. Like, wearing million-dollar watches. Emperor-core is going on at Mar-a-Lago,” she said.
Courtney Love made the move to London from Los Angeles in October 2019. In a 2022 interview, she shared what she liked about the city, “Laws. No guns. Four seasons. Discourse. You stan a middle-aged woman far better. Discretion.”
“I’m an Anglophile. I love London, it’s my favorite city and is the best place I’ve ever lived,” she said in an interview in 2024. “I’m left alone, there are laws here that protect me when I’m being outspoken, I like the friends I’ve made here.”
The singer is just one of the many celebrities who are making moves to places outside of the U.S.
Earlier this month, Rosie O’Donnell shared that she had moved to Ireland with her 12-year-old child and was in the process of getting citizenship.
“I was never someone who thought I would move to another country, that’s what I decided would be the best for myself and my 12-year-old child. And here we are,” Rose O’Donnell explained in a TikTok video explaining her move. “You know, I’m happy. Clay is happy. I miss my other kids. I miss my friends. I miss many things about life there at home and I’m trying to find a home here in this beautiful country and when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that’s when we will consider coming back.”
She alluded to the reasons for her move being something to do with the new administration, saying, “It’s been heartbreaking to see what’s happening politically and hard for me personally as well. The personal is political, as we all know.”
Last year, Ellen DeGeneres also moved to England with her wife, Ellen DeGeneres.
“Ellen was in England house hunting in the beginning of October. She ended up finding a house that she loved and purchased it shortly after,” a source shared with the press.
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