THE troubled family history of Courtney Love is set to catch up with her as the rock star-cum-actress prepares to publish a series of “intimate” journals.

Love’s father, a former rock manager called Hank Harrison, is preparing to sue her and Faber & Faber, publisher of her book Dirty Blonde, if she alleges that he put her on the road to drug addiction by giving her LSD as a toddler.

Harrison has already warned his ex-wife Linda Carroll that he may take legal action against her for airing the allegations in the book Her Mother’s Daughter.

Last month Love was released from a court-ordered drug rehabilitation clinic and regained custody of Frances Bean, her daughter with the rock star Kurt Cobain, who died of gunshot wounds in 1994.

At 41, the flamboyant and seemingly self-destructive star has promised a Los Angeles judge that she will “clean up my act”. She is writing the book in part because, although she has the lucrative rights to songs written by Cobain, frontman of grunge pioneers Nirvana, she faces tough financial decisions. It has been reported that she is considering selling the rights to Cobain’s songs for £60m.

A woodland bungalow near Seattle that she bought for Cobain’s sister Kim in 1997 was put up for public auction last December after she fell behind on mortgage payments. She is also being sued by her former lawyers over unpaid bills.

Love is unlikely to get much financial aid from her parents. Last week her 64-year-old father, who runs an equestrian centre in central California, said he had mixed feelings about his daughter.

“Courtney is a brilliant artist with a photographic memory and a mass of talent, but she can also be a mean bitch, although I put a lot of that down to her mother,” Harrison said.

“I have been told she was given a $1m (£570,000) advance for her book, and for that it will have to be pretty detailed. I know she has told other people that I gave her drugs when she was three years old, which she cannot possibly remember and is absolutely untrue as I was an anti-drugs counsellor in the 1960s. But I do fear what she might write now to make the book sell.”

Dirty Blonde, due to be published in November, is based on her journals of life with Cobain, as a rock star with her own band Hole and her acting career, which peaked with her role in the 1996 film The People vs Larry Flynt.

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