Frances Bean Cobain Reveals That She Is Two Years Sober

Frances Bean Cobain, the daughter of famed Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and singer Courtney Love, took to Instagram this week to reveal that she is celebrating an important milestone in the world of recovery. She is two years sober.

While Cobain did not reveal the specifics of her addiction, she spoke beautifully of her decision to get and remain sober at this point her life. Posting a photo from her current travels to Oahu, Hawaii, she wrote that, “This moment is a representation of who I am on February 13th, 2018. It feels significant here, now because it’s my 2nd sober birthday.”

Cobain and Love’s only child has unfortunately become familiar with addiction in her immediate family. Her father tragically passed of an overdose when Frances was just two years old, while her mother has publicly struggled with addictions ever since. Love, according to testimony from her daughter in 2012, “[…] basically exist[ed] now on… Xanax, Adderall, Sonata and Abilify, sugar and cigarettes.”

While Love has spoken publicly of her daily battle with sobriety, she and her daughter appeared to have made amends in 2015 after a long period of estrangement.

Today, Frances Bean Cobain is speaking out about the toxic nature of her addiction, and the struggles she has dealt with to live a clean and sober life. With now over twenty years since the death of her father, Cobain has made a new life for herself in sobriety, and is noticing the differences within her self-image and the relationships she forms with others. She attributes all of the positive changes to becoming present in her own life.

“Self-destruction and toxic consumption and deliverance from pain is a lot easier to adhere to. Undeniably, for myself and those around me becoming present is the best decision I have ever made,” she wrote.

Cobain, now 25 years old, appears happy and healthy in her recent posts, and is celebrating her achievements with her boyfriend of just over a year, Matthew Cook. She was previously married to Isaiah Silva, whom she divorced in early 2016.

As she thrives in sobriety, it is clear that Cobain is creating her own legacy. Facing adversity in the wake of her father’s death and the addictions of her mother has led her to this point as a newly sober woman with the world at her feet.