Personal Life
Bjelland was married and divorced twice and had a son, Henry, with her second husband. In 2007, it was reported that Bjelland had fallen into a schizophrenic episode and had received treatment. Bjelland commented on the event, saying: “I don’t know how I’ve progressed musically as such but a major influence in my writing was dealing with my whole schizophrenia episode. I actually haven’t spoken to anyone much about this. Dealing with multiple personalities was extremely difficult because some days I didn’t know who I was or where I was at. I was very lucky that Adrian stuck by and helped me through it all. So obviously that was going to affect some of what I wrote about.”
In her 2010 episode of Behind the Music, Courtney Love reflected on her formative years in rock music in Portland, Oregon, and said, "The best thing that ever happened to me, in a way, was Kat", noting their friendship and musical collaboration. Despite the on-and-off nature of their friendship, Bjelland had flown to Seattle immediately after Kurt Cobain's suicide in 1994 to support Love, and she also participated in the Behind the Music segment on Love in 2010.
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