Courtney Love has been living in London for the past five years — and she plans to make the move permanent.
The former Hole singer, 60, revealed that she’ll be getting her British citizenship in six months, and described the political situation in her native United States as “frightening,” according to the Daily Mail.
Love sat for an interview with Todd Almond at London’s Geographical Society on March 4 to celebrate the release of his new oral history Slow Train Coming: Bob Dylan’s Girl from the North Country and Broadway’s Rebirth, and also performed Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone.”
During their chat, the “Celebrity Skin” singer raved about her life in London to the crowd.
“I’m really glad I’m here. It’s so great to live here. I’m finally getting my British citizenship in six months. I get to be a citizen. I’m applying, man! Can’t get rid of me,” she reportedly said.
Though Love did not directly link her move to President Donald Trump’s administration, the singer — who has been vocal in her disdain for Trump over the years — reportedly went on to compare his politics to “emperor-core,” and said things were “frightening now.”
“In terms of Trump, and particularly this group… it’s like emperor-core. Like, wearing million-dollar watches. Emperor-core is going on at Mar-a-Lago,” she said, according to the Mail.
A rep for Love did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Love moved from Los Angeles to London in October 2019, and explained to Soho Home in 2022 what she loved about the city: “Laws. No guns. Four seasons. Discourse. You stan a middle-aged woman far better. Discretion.”
“I’m an Anglophile. I love London, it’s my favorite city and is the best place I’ve ever lived,” she added to the London Evening Standard in 2024. “I’m left alone, there are laws here that protect me when I’m being outspoken, I like the friends I’ve made here.”
The rocker is just the latest celebrity to leave the U.S. for the British Isles.
Earlier this month, Rosie O’Donnell announced that she and her 12-year-old child Clay moved to Ireland in January, and she’s in the process of getting Irish citizenship.
“I was never someone who thought I would move to another country, that’s what I decided would be the best for myself and my 12-year-old child. And here we are,” she said in a TikTok video. “You know, I’m happy. Clay is happy. I miss my other kids. I miss my friends. I miss many things about life there at home and I’m trying to find a home here in this beautiful country and when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that’s when we will consider coming back.”
The star alluded to changes made in the country since Trump’s inauguration, saying, “It’s been heartbreaking to see what’s happening politically and hard for me personally as well. The personal is political, as we all know.”
Comedian Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi also moved to England last year, relocating to the countryside after selling their California estate for $96 million.
“Ellen was in England house hunting in the beginning of October. She ended up finding a house that she loved and purchased it shortly after,” a source told PEOPLE in November.
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