Frances Bean Cobain shared a heartbreaking tribute to her rock star father Kurt Cobain on the 30th anniversary of his death.
The 31-year-old visual artist also posted flashback photos with the Nirvana musician.
The daughter of Courtney Love became philosophical as she discussed the complexity of loss and grief.
The model also touched on ‘life & death, pain & joy, yin & yang.’
And she lamented that she never spent much time with the music icon. ‘I wish I could’ve known my Dad. I wish I knew the cadence of his voice, how he liked his coffee or the way it felt to be tucked in after a bedtime story,’ she wrote.
Frances had a very warm reception as her friends like Paris Jackson (who also lost her musician father Michael Jackson at a young age) as well as Demi Moore‘s daughter Tallulah Willis, Eva Mendes and skateboarder Tony Hawk.
Frances Bean Cobain shared a heartbreaking tribute to her father Kurt Cobain on the 30th anniversary of his death. The visual artist also shared flashback photos with the Nirvana rock star
Frances is the only child of Hole singer Courtney Love and Nirvana frontman Kurt, who died by suicide in 1994
The post began, ’30 years ago my dad’s life ended.’
She then said the second and third photos were the last time she was with Kurt.
‘His mom Wendy would often press my hands to her cheeks & say, with a lulling sadness, “you have his hands.”‘ she said.
Frances then sweetly said she hopes she is holding his hands ‘wherever they are.’
Bean then noted that in the last 30 years her ideas around loss have been in a continuous state of metamorphosing.
‘The biggest lesson learned through grieving for almost as long as I’ve been conscious, is that it serves a purpose,’ she wrote.
‘The duality of life & death, pain & joy, yin & yang, need to exist along side each other or none of this would have any meaning,’ said the writer.
‘It is the impermanent nature of human existence which throws us into the depths of our most authentic lives.’
Frances then admitted there is no greater motivation for ‘leaning into loving awareness’ than knowing ‘everything ends.’
And she lamented that she never spent much time with the music icon.
‘I wish I could’ve known my Dad. I wish I knew the cadence of his voice, how he liked his coffee or the way it felt to be tucked in after a bedtime story,’ she wrote.
The post began, ’30 years ago my dad’s life ended.’ She then said the second and third photos were the last time she was with Kurt
‘His mom Wendy would often press my hands to her cheeks & say, with a lulling sadness, “you have his hands.”‘ she said. Frances then sweetly said she hopes she is holding his hands ‘wherever they are’
Bean then noted that in the last 30 years her ideas around loss have been in a continuous state of metamorphosing. ‘The biggest lesson learned through grieving for almost as long as I’ve been conscious, is that it serves a purpose,’ she wrote
‘The duality of life & death, pain & joy, yin & yang, need to exist along side each other or none of this would have any meaning,’ said the writer
‘It is the impermanent nature of human existence which throws us into the depths of our most authentic lives.’ Frances then admitted there is no greater motivation for ‘leaning into loving awareness’ than knowing ‘everything ends’
Here a young Kurt is seen with his mother Wendy
‘I always wondered if he would’ve caught tadpoles with me during the muggy Washington summers, or if he smelled of Camel Lights & strawberry nesquik (his favorites, I’ve been told).’
But it has helped her understand that life is precious.
‘He gifted me a lesson in death that can only come through the LIVED experience of losing someone,’ she said.
‘It’s the gift of knowing for certain, when we love ourselves & those around us with compassion, with openness, with grace, the more meaningful our time here inherently becomes.’
She then let followers know that Kurt wrote her a letter before she was born.
‘The last line of it reads, “wherever you go or wherever I go, I will always be with you.” He kept this promise because he is present in so many ways.’
Bean added: ‘Whether it’s by hearing a song or through the hands we share, in those moments I get to spend a little time with my dad & he feels transcendent. ✨’
And she lamented that she never spent much time with the music icon. ‘I wish I could’ve known my Dad. I wish I knew the cadence of his voice, how he liked his coffee or the way it felt to be tucked in after a bedtime story,’ she wrote
Frances in 2018 in Beverly Hills, left, and mom Courtney in 2023 in Paris
Frances (pictured with her mother in 2018) was just four months shy of her second birthday when her father died
She is the only child of Kurt and Courtney.
Frances’s father, Kurt, struggled with substance abuse and mental health issues throughout his life. He died by suicide at his Seattle home at the age of 27 in April 1994. Frances was just shy of two years old at the time.
Her mother, Courtney, was married to Kurt from 1992 until his death. Frances inherited 37 percent of her late father’s estate in December 2009.
In 2019, she revealed that she feels ‘guilt’ over inheriting the money, which is reported to be more than $95,000 a month, because she ‘didn’t earn it,’ People reported.
‘It’s almost like this big, giant loan that I’ll never get rid of,’ she explained during an episode of the RuPaul: What’s The Tee? podcast.
With her husband of one year, professional skateboarder Riley Hawk (pictured)
‘I have an almost foreign relationship to it or guilt because it feels like money from somebody that I’ve never met, let alone earned myself.’
Nirvana burst out of the underground and into the mainstream music scene in 1991 with the release of their seminal album Nevermind, which features their powerful lead single Smells Like Teen Spirit.
For the next three years, the Seattle-based rockers went on to become among the biggest bands in the world, selling over 75 million records worldwide.
Eventually, Nirvana was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in their first year of eligibility in 2014.
