Courtney Love blasts Nirvana rocker Dave Grohl and begs star to stop his 'straight white male' fans from bullying her

Courtney Love said she hopes Dave Grohl will eventually publicly announce that they're on good terms - so his fans will lay off her.

Love, who is the widow of Grohl's late Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain, appeared Wednesday on The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan podcast.

The San Francisco native, 61, spoke on the podcast about her current status with the former Nirvana drummer, 57, encouraging Grohl to 'come out with it and just say we're cool,' and to 'be man enough to man up.'

The Hole singer said that fans of the Foo Fighters frontman continue to be rude to her - under the false idea she and Grohl are at odds.

The Daily Mail has reached out to representatives for Grohl for comment but has yet to hear back.

Love said she thinks Grohl remains hesitant to publicly embrace her due to a concern of his audience turning on him as a result. 

'It would really behoove me if the straight white males that are your base, if you will, stop picking on me,' said the Doll Parts vocalist.

'The millennials in particular. Gen Z is not picking on me anymore.' 

Host Corgan backed up Love's account, saying that he 'can confirm that... Dave doesn't have any issue' with Love.

Love, who was married to late grunge icon Kurt Cobain from February 24, 1992 until his April 5, 1994 death, replied, 'Say that to his base - it's so stupid.'

Love said on the podcast that Grohl has penned multiple songs about her.

'I couldn't write a song about Dave Grohl to save my life,' Love said. 'He's written like, four songs about me and they're hits. I'm like, wait what? Like, what about me? I don't get it.'

Grohl in 2009 confirmed that he had Love in mind when penning the 1995 Foo Fighters track I'll Stick Around.'

The 2007 track Let It Die also was peripheral to Love, Grohl told The Guardian, describing it as 'a song that's written about feeling helpless to someone else's demise.'

The rock icon explained, 'I've seen people lose it all to drugs and heartbreak and death. It's happened more than once in my life, but the one that's most noted is Kurt.

'And there are a lot of people that I've been angry with in my life, but the one that's most noted is Courtney.'

He added, 'It's pretty obvious to me that those correlations are gonna pop up every now and again.'

Grohl and Love have had bad blood surface publicly in the past, dating back to the 90s.

In 1999, Love called Grohl a 'stupid motherf***er' in a chat with Spin in which she said Cobain was partial to performing with her and Hole 'more than he did with' Grohl and Krist Novoselic in Nirvana 'because he liked us better.'

They were involved in a legal dispute in 2002 over ownership to Nirvana's catalogue, resulting in a settlement.

Love spoke with the outlet Pitchfork in 2014 about how she and Grohl got along while crossing paths at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the year Nirvana was inducted. 

'On my way to the bathroom, I saw Grohl, and Grohl saw me, and he came up to me first—which really pissed me off, because I was going to go up to him first,' said Love.

She said that she told him she hopes they could set aside any past hard feelings on the joyous night.

'I was like, "All right, no matter what happens, we're not going to be bitches,"' Love said.

'That was my attitude going in, and obviously his. Not much else needs to be said. We just both knew it was time to let it go, and we were ready to do it.'

Grohl gave his account of the exchange to Rolling Stone: 'Early on in the evening I just tapped her on the shoulder. She turned around and I just said, "Hey." She said, "Hey."

'Then we gave each other a big hug. I said, "How are you?" She goes, "Good, how are you?" I said, "All right." And she said, "Let's do this. Let's rock this tonight."'

Grohl said of Love, 'We're family, no matter what. And we all love each other, no matter what.'