Right before Courtney Love began dating Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, she was involved with Billy Corgan. That relationship might have continued on a bit longer had Corgan been willing to pay for Love to fly home from Europe. In 1991, she accompanied Corgan when Smashing Pumpkins played some dates in Europe with Nirvana. But in the documentary Montage of Heck, Love mentions that Corgan wouldn't pay for Love's return trip, so her journey home began with a ferry ride with Cobain and the rest of Nirvana. Love admits she'd had a crush on Cobain already, but that Corgan's stinginess more-or-less pushed her to Cobain.

Corgan later reportedly pulled out of a tour with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nirvana because he wouldn't share a bill with Cobain's band, but he and Love reportedly got back together in the months after Cobain's death in 1994. That led to Corgan writing some songs with Love for Celebrity Skin, the 1998 album by her band, Hole. Corgan nevertheless trashed the album in the press, saying it "left a bad taste in [his] mouth." But years later, Corgan agreed to work with Love again, this time on her 2010 solo album, Nobody's Daughter. He later said two songs he'd written, "Samantha" and "How Dirty Girls Get Clean" were included on the album, even though he didn't want them used. And so he unloaded on Love on Twitter, saying things like "maybe you should go live off your husband's money."

As of 2014, the two alt rockers have reportedly reconciled. Demonstrating that they've truly let bygones be bygones, Love showed up to play with the Corgan and the Pumpkins at a New Jersey tour stop in August 2018. Love sang with the band on two Hole songs — "Celebrity Skin" and "Malibu," both of which Corgan co-wrote — as well as on the 1995 Pumpkins banger "Bullet with Butterfly Wings."

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