Courtney Love wanted to snort Kurt Cobain's ashes after he died, new book claims

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Singer Courtney Love wanted to snort late husband Kurt Cobain's ashes, a new book claims.

Courtney Love was so attached to rocker husband Kurt Cobain that she wanted to keep his ashes as close to her as possible - by snorting them, a new book claims.

Author and former music reporter Nick Strauss writes in his new book that the Hole singer tried to get him to inhale Cobain's cremated remains with her, RadarOnline.com reports.

"She was serious when she made the suggestion," Strauss said, according to the gossip site. "She actually said she would offer his ashes to me first to snort and then said she would like them."

The only thing that stopped her, Strauss claims, was the fact that he didn't use cocaine.

Strauss's, who tells the tale in his new book "Everybody Loves You When You Are Dead," says he was at the quirky singer's house in Los Angeles shortly after the Nirvana frontman's death when Love proposed the unorthodox idea.

"She leaped off her bed and suddenly said, 'Say hi to Kurt,'" Strauss told Radar.

The singer then produced a tin container which contained a "plastic bag full of white ashes."

"Too bad you don't do coke," Love said, according to Strauss. "Otherwise I'd suggest taking a metal straw to it."

"Yeah, I don?t think that would be the right thing to do," the writer claims he replied.

"I'd like to though," Love reportedly said.

Though Love left Cobain's ashes un-inhaled, she isn't the only celebrity who has wanted to snort a loved one's remains.

Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards revealed last year that he snorted his father's ashes.

"As I took the lid off of the box [of ashes], a fine spray of his ashes blew out on to the table," the rock star wrote in his autobiographymee. "I couldn't just brush him off so I wiped my finger over it and snorted the residue."

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