Courtney Love tells Elle magazine that her drug addiction, arrests, custody battles, jail sentences, awful plastic surgery and her controversial weight loss set the stage for Britney Spears public meltdown.

“I had a long, hard fall. I set the stage for Britney to crash and burn. I went through it all first.”

She also comes clean to Elle magazine about her weight and the rumor that a surgically inserted gastric band helped her lose soooo much weight this year.

“If I could get a gastric band I would!” she says. “I did go to see a Hollywood doctor about it. I wasn’t desperate, I just knew I had to do something. He said no. I might have been fat, but I wasn’t that fat. I tried lipo on my stomach after that. It was horrible and it didn’t work.”

Courtney says the only thing that worked was just NOT EATING. She started eating again when she noticed that “I lost my tits, I lost my ass. My stomach was really loose and saggy because I hadn’t done any exercise to lose the weight, I simply hadn’t eaten.”

None of this surprises me….but I am pleased to hear that at least one Hollywood plastic surgeon has some sense. Or maybe it was just the CLove just isnt’ big enough star for him to bend the rule for.