Lisa Roberts, who co-founded the band Hole with Courtney Love and Eric Erlandson in 1989, packed her bags and moved to Ukraine when the country's war with Russia broke out.
Roberts' move to Ukraine was revealed in a new interview with The Daily Beast, in which she recalls that she was first drawn to the Ukrainian cause through the country's heavy metal community. Once she learned that her friends (and members of the Ukrainian metal scene) needed urgent help, she moved to Donbass to work as a logistics manager for the humanitarian NGO Road to Relief.
Before joining the front lines in Donbass, the California native had been working for a major logistics company and felt her skills could translate to needed humanitarian relief efforts in Ukraine. Last year she volunteered with an NGO to provide aid to the looted villages of Donbass and now she is back in California with high hopes that the conflict will subside. Additionally, she is studying paramedicine and plans to return to Ukraine later this year to finish her volunteer service.
“For now I'm sitting here in America, depressed, surrounded by people who don't give a damn and don't see the war with Russia as a problem for their way of life. They just don't care. “They don’t want to talk about it and they really don’t give a damn what I have to say about it,” Roberts told The Daily Beast. “If I have the opportunity to come back, I don't think I will ever come back here. “I have no reason to do it.”
Elsewhere in her interview with The Daily Beast, Lisa Roberts also spoke about her friendship with former bandmate Courtney Love, the formation of Hole and subsequently her resignation from the band (“I quit because I felt there was a lack of quality”) and her meeting with Kurt Cobain, whom he described. as “a very angry and troubled man.”
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