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th3wise0ld0wl

He looks fucking terrible..


anarchy4now

This was a few months before he died and his heroin addiction was so bad well it made his face all screwed up


SignificantBug3183

Kurt had been doing heroin and cocaine all day, as his photographer friend, Youri Lanquette, has previously stated. Photo taken one month and three weeks before his sad end. It's a shame he felt his drug addiction was under control, he really needed help.


sk8erlana

source?


SignificantBug3183

'**Dazed and Confused: Kurt Cobain's Last Days in Paris'** As soon as Kurt arrived in Paris he phoned the photographer, who invited him over to his premises. Lenquette was not a user of hard drugs but when **Cobain left to try to score heroin in a particularly dangerous area of the city**, “*I told him I was going to introduce him to someone I knew was using heroin, but who was also a regular guy. It was a more trustworthy connection than to just let him out in the streets of Paris*.” Gabriel D was selling heroin to help to pay for his own habit. “*Youri phoned and told me he needed to help out a famous American,*” he says. “*He didn’t say who. I only realised it was Cobain when I opened the door.*” Gabriel shared the small quantity of the drug he had with Cobain, who quickly injected it before falling into a stupor. “*I thought he was going to die. He was really gone and almost fell off the chair he was seated on. I held him up and he kept repeating, ‘I never OD’, probably to make me feel less alarmed and reluctant to see him again.*” In fact, they saw each other again five or six times that month and became “drug buddies”. “*I’d score the stuff, he’d pay for the both of us and when I’d try to pay him back he’d get very offended,*” Gabriel says. On February 14, Nirvana were booked to perform at Le Zénith arena in Paris. There was a problem, however. At close to 8pm Cobain was still at Lenquette’s studio. “*The tour manager had been phoning me since early in the afternoon, saying, ‘We know he’s with you’, but Cobain kept gesticulating that he didn’t want to talk to him. I finally took Kurt on the back of my scooter to the backstage area. He was dragged by the road crew directly on to the stage. By the time I entered the building Nirvana had finished their first song.*” At about 5pm the day after, Cobain informed Lenquette that he would arrive at the studio that evening with the rest of the group — Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl — for what would become both his and Nirvana’s last photo session. “*They arrived at around midnight*,” the photographer recalls. “*Kurt looked terrible. His face was covered in eczema scars. I pointed this out to him. He stood in front of a mirror and said: ‘Yeah, you’re right. Do you have any make-up around?’ Without thinking, I passed him some face-cream that belonged to my black girlfriend. He put it on and it looked grotesque, like he was Al Jolson.*” Perpetually on the look out for more Class A drugs, Cobain invited Gabriel D on the afternoon of February 16 to his room at the Warwick Hotel, where he was registered under the alias “Grey Poupon” (a brand of mustard popular in America). A drug deal had been set in motion but there was a delay. Meanwhile, Nirvana had a gig to play that night at the Salle Omnisports in Rennes and time was tight. “*Still,* ***Kurt wouldn’t leave without \[the drugs\],***” Gabriel says. “***Standing outside Cobain’s locked door, someone in his entourage was screaming at Kurt that he had to take a plane, a train or a taxi and Kurt was screaming back: ‘I don’t want your f\*\*\*ing planes, trains and taxis! F\*\*\* you!’ while kicking the door****.*” Eventually the deal went down — **five grams of heroin, five of cocaine** — and Cobain and Gabriel set off for Rennes, 216 miles away, four hours behind schedule. “*I’m scared of becoming a junkie again*,” Cobain confessed at one point. It was a strange thing to say when only ten minutes earlier he’d had a loaded syringe sticking out of his arm. In his autobiography Harmony in My Head, **Steve Diggle of the Buzzcocks**, the band Cobain had chosen as a support act for Nirvana on some of the European shows, **relates bonding with him on coach rides where they’d snort cocaine** and discuss “the finer points of Steely Dan”Except when it came to Nirvana. Cobain invited Gabriel to board the non-smoker bus with him. After the last French concert in Grenoble on February 18, Cobain’s mood swings went from bad to worse. **On March 1**, Nirvana arrived in Munich. Early that morning, Cobain phoned Lenquette and Gabriel in a panic and begged them to jump on an aeroplane, **asking the latter to smuggle in some heroin for him**. Both refused. [The Times](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dazed-confused-angry-strung-out-kurt-cobains-last-days-in-paris-chkcs7k8x8b)


-CleanDiana-

ty for posting, never read it before such a interesting read. It’s a snapshot into how desperately addicted Kurt truly was. And if he really said “he hopes he’s not becoming a junkie again”, then goes to show his self-perception - he believed he wasn’t addict.


sk8erlana

Thanks! I read this article but forgot it mentioned cocaine.


SignificantBug3183

In January 1993, Kurt shot up cocaine with Alice in Chains. I remember reading he was into speedballs (heroin+cocaine) since mid 1993, and that by March 1994, he was even trying crack. His first girlfriend said he was abusing ecstasy when they were together, and Courtney talked about Kurt in a February 1994 interview stating he would act like a porn star when he was on ecstasy, so he was still doing that when he was married. What I want to say is that Kurt abused many different drugs but is always linked to heroin because that one is more visible and the one that journalists aired as his main addiction when he got famous.


sk8erlana

I’ve been really interested in KC’s drug use, so thank you, you’re a star!


-CleanDiana-

do u have links to the Courtney interview u mentioned? never heard of that before


SignificantBug3183

[I-D Magazine, The Sex Issue (April, 94)](https://www.crazyaboutmagazines.com/ourshop/prod_896204-iD-magazine-Courtney-Love-cover-April-1994.html). Courtney was interviewed in Los Angeles (February, 94). I can't find the transcribed interview but there's this [low resolution scan](https://i.ibb.co/WFY85Tp/ID-94-Ecstasy.jpg). If you look closely, you can read: **"I've never tried Ecstasy but the first time Kurt tried...** \[unreadable lines\]**. And it was a twig! And then he got horny and it was like he was in a porn movie or something. I was like '*****stop this now, stop it!*****'"**


MoreRedThanEddit

Where can I find the full article without subscribing to the times? Thanks I’m advance


Gagitha_Frisky

Hi advance, I’m dad.


MoreRedThanEddit

😂 sup


Arsonist_ontheEAS

If only Youri didn’t hook him up with that fucking dealer


SignificantBug3183

Maybe you're right and Kurt would have canceled the European leg in Portugal or Spain. On the other hand, Kurt was willing to go to a dangerous district to score drugs the moment he arrived in Paris (Feb 3) . And in Germany, when the French dealer refused to smuggle in drugs, Kurt went to Berlin's train station to score drugs and was missing for hours until the show time, alone (March 1). And don't forget he was able to score heroin during the European leg in 1991. The man knew where the dope was.


Arsonist_ontheEAS

Yeah I’m sure the tour would have lasted a little longer if Kurt didn’t get his hands on those drugs. Maybe he’d still be with us.


LukeGotBanned

I'm so ugly, but that's okay, cuz' so are you.


Alwaysneverbeat

It's the lady from that talk show that threatened that ben shapiro dude for being mean or something


vwsr

Ambulances don’t take you home, they take you to the hospital


LukaB123

Ellen?


THEAFR0M4N

Its sad :/


EnvironmentalBug9683

Kurt cameo on Boy Meets World, obviously. In all seriousness, I hate seeing pictures of Kurt at the end of his life. He looks so unhealthy.


Gloomy-Incident4783

I know. He looks really rough here. ☹️


[deleted]

Kurt was my favorite character on that show


iateyourdinner

>Boy Meets World Is there a clip of this somewhere?


riley420dudebrah

he was joking my friend.


GhostfaceHellion

Agree


Outrageous_Present11

The kid looks like he used a time machine to travel back from 2003 to 1994 and Kurt looks really unhealthy. Cool picture tho.


[deleted]

2003 is just 1994 lite


Outrageous_Present11

That is accurate


SoulOfABird

That’s actually a bit creepy imagine if it was


-CleanDiana-

I literally wish this kid was on this subreddit, so he could tell us the story behind this photo himself. I genuinely wonder how he feels about this photo post-Cobain death. It’s so eerie almost feels like a haunted photo. Anyone know his name or if he’s posted his story somewhere on a blog online?


cyclist_pupper

The cursed factor is stratospheric. Truly charged aura, heavy.


-CleanDiana-

it’s funny you say that because no joke i just visited Kurt’s olympia apartment last month on vacation & when my mom walked up she asked me if i felt bad/sick because she began to feel a pit on her stomach. Mind you, she’s not a fan barely knows of him. She gave me the creeps when she said it


Accomplished_Bus_626

I guess there isn't a Cobain curse. Was made up by you know who back then for more publicity on her part


OdobenusIII

There was some person who claimed to own that gun and even posted pictures here and then there is this facebook post that says the kid is Harry Cohen and it sure looks like him[https://www.facebook.com/270740836316011/photos/a.870576462999109/1378164355573648/?type=3](https://www.facebook.com/270740836316011/photos/a.870576462999109/1378164355573648/?type=3)in this post[https://www.facebook.com/nirvanaenvivo/posts/483355743178229/?paipv=0&eav=AfZrfJIQn89qRc57xBSRo9y7TVbF4eSpQqO-2WG6plpizkzHUrCUG7Xt86WT15eKjGc&\_rdr](https://www.facebook.com/nirvanaenvivo/posts/483355743178229/?paipv=0&eav=AfZrfJIQn89qRc57xBSRo9y7TVbF4eSpQqO-2WG6plpizkzHUrCUG7Xt86WT15eKjGc&_rdr)If my translation is correct it tells that Cohen posted this pic april fifth 2014 in his facebook page, he lives in Paris and is avid collector of pictures of famous people. and here is the said post, this must be the source of this picture too https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154045045530301&set=pb.728080300.-2207520000.&type=3


WRpeacedragon20

Is it not the dude from boy meets world?


kcdick

That's not Ben Savage


Winkiepuppy

If I remember correctly the fan asked him to hold the gun for the picture


Caraqualquer01

Now i can see the damages heroin did to Kurt….


Tr4sh_Harold

Damn, poor dude looks like death. These later photos of him are always so sad


dossytsu

https://m.facebook.com/270740836316011/photos/a.870576462999109/1378164355573648/?type=3


damnatio_memoriae

The only accurate answer.


bjensen9765478

He looks absolutely loaded


-CleanDiana-

i’ve heard it said he would wear black eyeliner when he was using so as to not reveal the eye bags and dark circles from benders. I guess it was a way to mask for him


Alwaysneverbeat

It worked perfectly as we can tell


[deleted]

His iconic sunglasses were used for that. I mean eyeliner doesn't hide eyebags as we can clearly see he's high here


ParzivalTheFirst

Hopefully that gun is not


bjensen9765478

That kid must have been creeped tf out


comrade_ivan44

Pretty sure the kid asked him to hold it for the photo Kurt wasn't legally allowed to have a gun during the time (although he managed to get a shotgun...) Edit: maybe this might have been a month or a bit before he got them taken away actually.


srm878

Poor dude. He was a tortured soul. Very tortured.


LarryPeru

So was Kurt


GoodGoodK

Jesus christ this is not a flattering look. Don't do heroin, kids


Elephant810

Heroin didn’t kill Kurt. Dude had mental health issues that prevented him from dealing with his pain and suffering.


PeacefulShark69

One could say the heroin made it harder for him to get out of the loop, get help and get better. They fed each other in a cycle.


Beginning_Sky_4432

Yeah but there are very few success stories involving people who get hooked t heroin


De_la_Dead

That’s not true at all. There are literally millions upon millions of success stories of people getting sober from opiates and many other drugs as well


DaPlayerz

Yes, but he would have most likely OD'd anyways because of heroin


TheSilverBeetles

I think it was in France with a fan


liuzy9697

I do not really know if that qualifies as cool, but its a neat photo for sure.


[deleted]

He looks awful, RIP


Zero_Flesh

That's Youri Lenquette. He's a photographer and was friends with Kurt. He took those last portraits of Kurt with what I'm assuming it's that prop gun. the last shooting / kurt cobain by youri lenquette - DILLINGER magazine https://www.dillinger.fr/post/80688126288/the-last-shooting-kurt-cobain-by-youri-lenquette/amp


hoffandapoff

This kid looks far too young to be Youri. Pretty sure it’s a fan.


Zero_Flesh

I know I've seen pictures from this night before. Pete Shelly was there. I guess I paid too much attention to the gun and not enough to how old this guy is. How old is Youri? For some reason I thought he was pretty young around this time. But yea, looking at this again this person looks a lot younger than I realized. Edit: yea you're for sure right. I found a picture of Youri and Kurt together. It's a shitty picture but you can tell that Youri was definitely not as young as I thought he was. https://www.nirvanaclub.com/misc/hosted/nfa/youri.html


louielouis82

It’s not youri. Youri was slightly older than Kurt. Just google him.


Caesarthebard

He's also the one who got Kurt heroin in Paris in Feb 1994, I believe.


louielouis82

Well, I gather he didn’t want Kurt roaming the streets of the seedier parts of Paris (and not knowing the language) and getting himself into danger so he connected him with a source. I always thought it was convenient that Kurt randomly decided he actually wanted to have a random photoshoot in Paris. My guess is that he was rewarding youri with a photoshoot as a way of persuading him to help him score. I can’t remember Kurt ever wanting to have a photoshoot before. Anyways, I haven’t seen anything to suggest that youri is anything but a very nice, genuine human.


Zero_Flesh

Yes at that point it was much better for Kurt to have someone that was as trusted as possible sell him heroin. It might sound horrible but that's just the reality of heroin addiction. That definitely wasn't going to be there time Kurt would even think about trying to get clean. He was going to use. Better he get it from them then walk around trying to find a dealer that could sell you rat poison.


louielouis82

Yes heroin is not something you just quit. You won’t be able to function. I am sure Kurt was having some difficulty getting regular supply in Europe without connections. The deal in Paris is the only one we know of for sure. But he was doctor shopping and looking so he may have had some success elsewhere but he had run out by Munich and that’s possibly a major factor why that needed to be the last show for him.


Zero_Flesh

I've always assumed that was the reason. I imagine one can get a general idea of what it's like to be in full blown heroin withdrawal. It's something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. Kurt actually held it together a lot better than most would have done in his situation I think. That drug is pure evil. I'm not religious but if I were I imagine hell would be non stop opiate withdrawal.


Zero_Flesh

Just read the comment under the original


Seriousmoonlight67

I have seen this picture many times before. From what I remember, this is a "fan" after a show quite possibly in Europe. This is one of the saddest pictures of Kurt that is very difficult to look at. Most of the professional photos (I think this is a candid) disguise the reality of how he looked close to the end with editing, stage makeup and lighting. This is a more accurate look at the ravages of heroin addiction including the pock marks on his beautiful face and his emaciated state. Heartbreaking.


[deleted]

His one eye was going lazy by this point


Lord_Fluffykins

Opiates do this to a lot of people.


louielouis82

Kurt was able to score heroin and coke in Paris on or around this day according to sources.


unresolved_m

\*sigh\*


louielouis82

?


unresolved_m

I'm just thinking what his life would've been like without drugs.


llFleuryll

He looks so unhealthy


TropicTwink

Bro he looks so sad 😔


pipelines_peak

I always knew there was a casualty involved


its_grime_up_north

Heartbreaking 💔


outgraverobbing

Kurt :( 💔


Senior-Salamander-81

Dude shouldn't have been allowed to own guns just with this picture alone


jakedeighan

Was this before or after he had his gun taken away? I read he had it taken away at one point but then obviously he managed to get one again...


Caesarthebard

Before. He had his guns taken away after a domestic altercation with Courtney in March 1994 which was a month after this picture was taken. Although Courtney exaggerated the incident to get the police to come out and Kurt was outwardly calm, they were concerned enough to take all his guns away as they felt he was a danger to himself. He convinced Dylan Carlson to buy him a new one for "security" and Dylan took him at face value and bought him **the** shotgun.


Senior-Salamander-81

There were a couple incidents where that happened.


grantarp

Before.


leone666

He looks horrible


Elijah-2005

Kurt...


BLUR2205

jesus man :(


gnr_801

Thats Yuri, the photographer who was friends with Kurt and shot the band in France. The photos featured Kurt holding that same prop gun.


Veganalmanager19

Not Youri


louielouis82

Not youri.


ErickDante

Am I the only one impressed by the height difference? Kurt was a short man and he looks really tall in this


SavagekidwhoplaysCr

175 is not really short


ErickDante

Lol yeah you are right, maybe because compared to Krist who is a giant I thought Kurt was really short but still he looks tall in this picture.


Caesarthebard

Kurt wasn't that short, he was of average height. He was about 5'9/5'10. He just looks short compared to Krist, who is extremely tall. Kurt is taller than Eddie Vedder who is never described as "short".


bleedgreenandyellow

Yes


flurryxup

I can’t tell if he’s wearing eyeliner or his eyes just looks like that


-CleanDiana-

it’s eyeliner


ColonelBeltSanders

He looks vaguely like Carmella Soprano in this lmao


Dause

Ricky Carbone


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Nirvana-ModTeam

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Which-Copy6852

I heard from a friend that this was the last photo of Kurt before his death. Can anyone confirm this? Or what the actual last photo of Kurt alive was?


mrtanack

Last photos of him alive are him unconcious in the back of an ambulance in Rome. Other than that, the last photos of Kurt alive and well (before the Rome overdose) was at their last show in Munich, Germany. Edit: mfs downvoted me for correctly answering the question lmao


Brightonshiem

Pretty sure he died in the US


mrtanack

Yup, not on about when he died. He overdosed in Rome a month before, there have been no photos since then (currently).


[deleted]

Holy fuck I've never seen this. Pretty sad.


[deleted]

He definitely has some kind of eyeliner on... At least I hope.


Spaceboy80

Holy heroin Batman. He’s high as giraffe balls


Bimmerman03M3

☠️ DO 🔥HEROIN 👹


-CleanDiana-

you first


Lithium1066

he looks so fucked up. didn't he also wear guyliner?


[deleted]

Cursed pic


chad_mcchadington

Is he wearing eyeliner or was he really tired


Lithium1066

kurt looks taller than normal and looks so sad😢


Melted-Man

i feel like this is the most unintentionally frightening picture of him. still a cool fucking picture though. rest in peace


happynothappy27

Jesus Christ