Courtney Love has continued her war of words with Steve Coogan over Owen Wilson’s suicide attempt.

After suggesting the British comedian was to blame for Owen’s overdose at the weekend, a spokesperson for Steve said that they were considering legal action but Courtney insists: “There’s nothing illegal or wrong with saying that someone’s a bad influence. I could get into some very specific detail that I’m not going to.”

“I’m not judgmental on anyone else’s lifestyle at all. I have done everything there is to do. If someone wants to do drugs they can do drugs, if someone wants to have all the sex in the world they can have all the sex in the world - I don’t care.”

“But it starts to get to the place where it hurts people around them, and the numbers are astonishing of who it hurts.”

“I’m no the only person saying this either. I think next week you’ll see a lot more quotes.

Courtney added about the Alan Partridge star: “Hopefully [Steve] will leave us alone in this town and go back to Brighton or wherever the hell he’s from… and stay there.”

“He’s not even known over here. No one knows who the guy is. He has bit parts in movies - that’s what he does.”

In return, Steve has now told Access Hollywood: “My thoughts are with my friend Owen at this difficult time, but I do want to set the record straight and say that the allegations are completely and utterly false.”

He also told Blackbook magazine editor Steve Garbarino that as well as Courtney spreading pregnancy rumours after their brief fling in 2005, she also tried to break into his house and stalked him.

But a friend of Courtney’s told the New York Post that actually the reverse is true: “[Steve] has stalked Courtney over the years. He has gone to her house on several occasions. He e-mailed her nanny. He asked her to marry him and told her, ‘You’re the most intriguing woman alive.’ You name it.”

“His saying Courtney ever stalked him is the biggest lie ever! He has done nothing but go out of his way to hurt her. He’s obsessed with her.”