i never thort lena was plump as a child. r.i.p lena

beautiful song bird Lena.

dont believe it these operations or ECT. Psychiatric diseases should be treated by psychological treatments. Lena was still young. all was not yet tried and all was not lost. xx

Suicide can be inherited.

thank u 4 posting this, i remember Lena so vividly, from when she won opportunity knocks, but did not know how the poor woman suffered…may she rest in peace with all the love and care she deserves

@nailsandashesI totally agree. I also feel Her mom was a “basket case” and incapable of loving Lena the way she needed a mother to love her. Her manager only saw Lena as a vessel to make money. I don’t believe she cared for her at all. GREED!!!!!!!

@jbmatthias You are being very unfair on Lena’s mum. Remember she committed ******* and was very troubled in her life. Let’s leave it there.

sad sad story…but she was crap!..still she was a human being who didn’t deserve the cards she was dealt

An interesting documentary. Thanks.

IMO, people wo put little children on telivision and the stage are selfish. How many child acot, actresses, singers are miserable adults where a large percentage use drugs or are anorexic,bulemic. Too many ,unwarrented youg deaths. For the sake of entertainment? Not worth it. I don’t care how much talent a youngsters has. Nurture their brains with education and don’t exploite these precious gifts of our Savior. Rest in peace to all the deaths of our young,who were ,are gone too soon,,,,,,,,,,

@MJWarner The parents of Lena obiously loved their daughter like crazy abd would do anything to try and save her from herself but, sadly it didn’t work. A very talented voiced silenced by the ugly disease called Anorexia.To Lenas parents , may your pain ease withe passage of time andmay the world learn from Lena’s life and death, Bless you all, who tried to intervene and save her from herself.

@MJWarner The parents of Lena obiously loved their daughter like crazy and would do anything to try and save her from herself but, sadly it didn’t work. A very talented voiced silenced by the ugly disease called Anorexia.To Lenas parents , may your pain ease with passage of time and may the world learn from Lena’s life and death, Bless you all, who tried to intervene and save her from herself

@pleasureseekers you twat

@itsminered errr why? because i thought she was crap? or because i felt sorry for her? perhaps when you’ve learnt to string a sentence together you could clarify your point. I do love the people on here who aren’t intelligent enough to reply properly and resort to intellectual statements like “you twat”. I think it says more about you than me!

@pleasureseekers OK intellectual one, expand on your statement, “she was crap” if you can.

@newagemisfit Why would I need to do that. My previous comment stands! You think i’m a **** because either a) I felt sorry for her or b) I thought she was crap. IMHO I don’t think that she had as much talent as is made out. I always thought that other “all rounders” such as Bonnie Langford were far more talented. That doesn’t mean that i’m a **** because I have an opinion. Why? should I like everyone in film/music/art/poetry?

@pleasureseekers So you have nothing more to add to your “she was crap” statement other than in your opinion BL was more talented. I thought as much. I did not say that you were a **** and of course you are entitled to your opinion. However, you do have a very twatish way of expressing a very twatish opinion.

How can anyone compare a voice such a leana’s and Bonnies dance technique, both beautifull talented women and friends, and are both loved and appreaciated, and neither will ever be forgotten.

I remember Lena winning Opportunity Knocks. We all envied her! She is the same age as me, so we sort of identified with her. I remember at the time, wondering how she could bear to leave home to live with strangers – no fame is worth that. The family was misguided. God help them in their obvious pain now. That manager – comes across as a cold fish. Rest in Peace Lena x

Sadly, like MJ she lost her childhood. She spent time away from her parents and family and worked until she didn’t have her own identity, she was just a talented money making machine… that must be hard to come to terms with has a child. It’s tragic not only how her life ended, but what seems so amazing to someone else can be the ruination of that person. Maybe if she’d been introduced to stardom later in life, she would have handled it better. RIP Lena. I hope the ‘static’ is now a rainbow.