The Complicated Life Of Kurt Cobain

He Started Using Drugs At Age 13

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Cobain started smoking marijuana at age 13 and continued to use the drug throughout his life. His girlfriend Marander also claimed Cobain was a heavy user of LSD. His bandmate, bassist Krist Novoselic, said Cobain would do “drugs, acid, any kind of drug.” He also used heroin and went to rehab in 1992, but he relapsed and overdosed a few months later. In 1994, he had another drug and alcohol overdose. Novoselic recalled that Cobain was “out of his mind on heroin” just days before he committed suicide. “I remember seeing him those last days and he was loaded,” he told SPIN in 2015.