Thursday, November 09, 2006

Courtney Love Credits Gibson With Her Drug Addiction Recovery

New York, NY (AHN) - Noted actress and rock singer, Courtney Love said on Tuesday that Mel Gibson helped her on her road to recovery from drug addiction. The widow of rock legend Kurt Cobain, who has been sober for 15 months, said Gibson showed up unexpectedly at a Beverly Hills, California hotel where she was in the throws of a drug binge, and coaxed her to seek help. "Mel kept coming to the door with this cheesy grin going, `Hi!'" Love said on Tuesday on ABC's "Good Morning America." "I just kept looking at him going - I can't cuss - um, `Blank off!' ... I know him and he's a nice guy. It didn't matter who it was. It could have been Jesus. I didn't care," she said. The 42-year-old former lead singer for the band Hole, said that Gibson came with addiction counselor, Warren Boyd.

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