Courtney Love claims Brad Pitt got her fired from Fight Club

Courtney Love has again hit out at Brad Pitt, accusing the star of stalking her “for years” and forcing her to go public against him.

Courtney Love and Brad Pitt.

UPDATE: Courtney Love has clarified the comments about actor Brad Pitt on a podcast this week, taking to Instagram to explain that Pitt had pushed her “a bridge too far” and that he had “kept on stalking (her) for years” in his quest to play her late husband Kurt Cobain in a film.

“I told the story because I felt Pitt would not stop pursuing Kurt - unless I said it in public,” she wrote in the statement, posted across two Instagram slides:

Earlier, Love claimed that Pitt got her fired from director David Fincher’s classic movie Fight Club.

Pitt, now 59, starred in the 1999 drama alongside Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf and Jared Leto, but Love was never in the film — and she blames Pitt for her exclusion.

While speaking with Marc Maron on his WTF podcast this week, Love spilled the details about her low-key Hollywood battle with Pitt, and joked about her late husband Kurt Cobain’s tendency to “ruin” things for her – even after his death in 1994.

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Love says she was originally cast in Fight Club – before Pitt intervened. Picture: Getty

Brad Pitt in the film, which became a cult classic.

When asked for an example, she told a story about how Cobain inadvertently cost her a role in Fight Club. Love claimed that she brought the project to Fincher and was cast as Marla Singer, a character later played by Bonham Carter.

Ahead of production, Love alleged that she received a call from film director Gus Van Sant and Pitt saying that they were interested in making a biopic about Cobain. “It was like the Hellmouth opened,” Love recalled.

“This is like 2000, no one has ever done this. And 22 years later, I still kick myself for not having the shark instinct to be like, ‘sure’ and f**k them later. [Instead] I went nuclear,” she added.

Love’s former partner Norton (right) was left to break the news.

Love added that her former partner, Norton, broke the news to her that evening that she’d lost the role.

“Edward [Norton] gets home. He starts sobbing,” she claimed. “He was like, ‘I don’t have the power.’” Later, she got a call from Fincher confirming that she was no longer cast in the role.

Love insisted that her recollection of the story was not intended to insult Bonham Carter, calling her a “genius.” She also stated that she’s never seen Fight Club.

But that wasn’t the end of it. According to Love, Pitt once again approached her about a Cobain project in a separate conversation over a video chat. When he told her he wanted to produce a biopic about Cobain, she allegedly told him, “I don’t know that I trust you and I don’t know that your movies are for profit. They’re really good social justice movies.”

Love claims that Pitt has been eager for years to play her late husband Kurt Cobain (right). Picture: Terry McGinnis/WireImage

She continued to say that Pitt doesn’t understand her or Cobain, saying, “I was like, ‘If you don’t get me, you don’t get Kurt, and I don’t feel like you do, Brad.’” Love stated that the project Pitt was interested in doing had nothing to do with Sants’ Last Days, which follows the last days of a rock musician, said to be loosely based on Cobain.

Love shared that her friend, Cameron Crowe, later told her, “Brad Pitt was put on this earth to stalk you for Kurt,” and said that he’s been vying for the role of her late husband since 1996.

This story originally appeared on Decider and is republished here with permission