The Complicated Life Of Kurt Cobain

His Loved Ones Executed An Intervention

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Cobain’s family and friends reached out to Steven Chatoff, executive director of Anacapa by the Sea, which treated people with addiction problems and psychological disorders. “They called me to see what could be done,” Chatoff told Rolling Stone. “He was using, up in Seattle. He was in full denial. It was very chaotic. And they were in fear for his life. It was a crisis.” Nirvana’s management decided to use a different intervention counselor, and Love, bandmates Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear, and others confronted Cobain at his home on Seattle’s Lake Washington Boulevard. The intervention took place over two days.