The gun was hidden under the bed, and one night when he was eight years old and couldn't take it anymore, Courtney Love called his father and told him he was going to use it.
His mother was out again, but she always seemed to be out somewhere, leaving Courtney to fend for himself. She wouldn't take him to his baseball games, wouldn't let him sign up for the same exercise program she'd let his older sister join and wouldn't explain why she refused to do any of it. She appeared, at least in Courtney's mind, to be projecting all of her spitefulness onto him.