Courtney Love accused of “grabbing journalist’s crotch” without consent

nme.com:

Courtney Love once grabbed his crotch without his consent.Frank Elaridi spoke about the alleged incident on his podcast, Quite Frankly, in which he had a conversation with Nahko Bear, who faced an allegation of sexual misconduct in 2020.The pair were discussing an incident in which Bear was alleged to have groped a woman’s breast without her consent, which he has denied.

Elaridi then recalled his interaction with Love, which he said had taken place six years ago.“I think I was like 24 or something at the time – naive,” he said [via The Independent]. “They send me to Coachella to go do an interview with her.

I’m at her afterparty, interviewing her in a side room, and then she’s like, ‘Come hang out with us!’”Elaridi claimed that he was “caught off guard” when the Hole singer touched him inappropriately after having a photo of them taken together.“And the second [the] photo’s done, she grabs my crotch, like, really hard,” he said.“I was caught off guard.

There’s literally a photo ‘cause somebody across the room snapped it [and] sent it to me.”The podcast is also available to watch as a video, in which Elaridi displays the photo in question.