Evan Dando Denies He and Courtney Love Had an Affair

Evan Dando denied he had an affair with Courtney Love in his new book.

In his memoir Rumors of My Demise (out Tuesday, Oct. 7 via Gallery Books), the Lemonheads’ bandleader claimed he tried to brush off the Hole musician’s advances both before and after Kurt Cobain’s death.

While touring with Hole in 1993 following the release of The Lemonheads’ album Come on Feel the Lemonheads, Dando, now 58, writes that Love, now 61, was fun to spend time with but was “a chaos agent of the first order.”

The “My Drug Buddy” singer claims the “Celebrity Skin” artist told him that she made the Nirvana frontman cry the night before because Love told him she and Dando were having an affair.

“F—, Courtney! Why did you do that?” he writes in the book. He then goes on to deny they ever slept together or “fooled around.” According to Dando, they just “did drugs” together.

 “I thought it was a terrible thing to say to Kurt,” writes Dando, claiming that Love “laughed it off.”

The “Into Your Arms” artist was allegedly “appalled” that the “Doll Parts” performer would do something like that and didn’t want Cobain to be mad at him despite not knowing him too well.

“How could we ever be friends if in the back of his mind he was always wondering if I’d slept with his wife?” he writes.

While he claims he liked Love, he wasn’t attracted to her “physically.”

Later, Dando recalls Cobain’s death in 1994 and its aftermath, where many people allegedly thought he and Love were involved.

According to Dando, Love “had tried to make it happen,” but he wouldn’t do it.

“Nothing happened between us, but she told people that it had, and they believed her,” he writes.

Dando recalls finding out from Nirvana guitarist Pat Smear that Cobain allegedly thought Love and him were having an affair after his death.

Allegedly, Smear told Cobain there was nothing happening between them but claims the “Lithium” performer wasn’t convinced.

After Cobain’s death, Love allegedly “kept trying to make something happen” between her and Dando.

“I would tell her no and she would sulk about it for a while and I’d avoid her,” he writes.

According to Dando, at one point while he was in a New York City hotel room with Love and some other musicians, Love asked him to take a picture with her and “pretend” to make out.

While Dando claims he told her he didn’t want to do it, he relented and thought the photo would never be seen.

“Our lips barely touched, like the way you’d kiss a close friend or relative,” he recalls of the encounter.

A few days later, his camera allegedly went missing and the photo of him and Love kissing ended up in the New York Post.

A rep for Love did not respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

Rumors of My Demise is out now.