Lana Del Rey may have become a punchline when she said she wished she “was dead already,” but to Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain, it’s no laughing matter.
The 21-year old, who was a year-and-a-half old when her father committed suicide in 1994, took to Twitter on Sunday evening to discuss why she saw no glamor in dying young.
“@LanaDelRey Well, it’s f—–g not. Embrace life, because u only get one life. The ppl u mentioned wasted that life.Don’t be 1 of those ppl,” she wrote in another tweet, before telling the singer she had too much talent to want to die young.
Cobain also noted that she was not attacking Del Rey, just sharing how her personal experiences had shaped her opinion on the matter.
In the same interview, Del Rey, 28, also mentioned her admiration for the “27 Club,” a group of musicians who died at age 27, which includes Cobain’s father.
But Del Rey has tried to distance herself from the quotes and the interview, which originally appeared in the Guardian, saying that the paper was “sinister” for asking leading questions, reports Pitchfork.
“i regret trusting the guardian – no I didn’t want to do an interview but the journalist was persistent. Alexis masked as a fan,” she wrote about Guardian critic Alexis Petridis, in a since-deleted tweet, even though it was Tim Jonze who wrote the profile.
“His leading questions about death and persona were calculated,” she added later, in another deleted tweet.
Jonze defended himself on the Guardian’s website, contradicting Del Rey’s claims, and also posted the segment of their interview where she said she wished she “was dead already.”