Frances Bean Cobain reflects on near-death experience to mark 30th birthday

nme.com:

Frances Bean Cobain has marked her 30th birthday by sharing a statement in which she reflects on a near-death experience from five years ago.In 2017, the daughter of Kurt Cobain was on a flight when one of the engines caught fire. “I promised myself that if I made it through, that I would no longer try to escape the moments of my life,” she wrote in a statement at the time.Now, she has marked her 30th birthday by taking to Instagram and sharing what she has learned in the half-decade since the incident.“I made it!” she began. “Honestly, 20 year old Frances wasn’t sure that was going to happen.

At the time, an intrinsic sense of deep self loathing dictated by insecurity, destructive coping mechanisms & more trauma than my body or brain knew how to handle, informed how I saw myself and the world; through a lens of resentment for being brought into a life that seemingly attracted so much chaos and the kind of pain tied to grief that felt inescapable.”She added: “Then, an event on a plane which brought me closer in proximity to death is ironically the event that catapulted me towards running at this lived experience with radical gratitude.