Unbeknownst to her fans, friends, and even her family, though, behind the "squeaky clean" image she perfected for decades Scottish singer Lulu, 76, was fighting a secret, decades-long battle with addiction.
"For many years, and I can't say how many, I had not been happy with the way I felt, not at all happy and [yet] unable to ask for help," she told The Times.
Born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie, Lulu grew up in a Glasgow tenement where she witnessed violent domestic abuse between her parents. "Nobody said alcoholic where I came from," she told The Times, recalling how her father would regularly hit her mother when he was drunk, leaving bruises and bloody eyes her mother would then blame on tripping over a broom. "My mother taught me how to keep secrets."
In 1967, she starred opposite Sidney Poitier in the classic film To Sir, With Love and sang the theme song, which soared to No. 1 in the United States. In 1969, she represented the UK and won the Eurovision Song Contest with "Boom Bang-a-Bang." She became the only Eurovision winner to also record a James Bond theme, singing "The Man with the Golden Gun" in 1974. That same year, she collaborated with the legendary David Bowie, who produced her hit cover of "The Man Who Sold the World."
Despite her incredible success, though, it was not without sacrifice. In her interview with The Times, she explained, “‘Lulu' is a character I play, a part.” The real her, Marie, was "a bit of a tortured soul.” To keep Lulu alive, “that [real] part of me got shoved down.”
Today, however, Lulu is in a place of peace and acceptance. "Now I'm in recovery, I probably have never been happier in my life, and at the same time, never been more in touch with my feelings," she told The Times. This has allowed her to forgive her parents and understand their struggles.
After a lifetime of battling generational trauma, Lulu's story is not one of regret, but of strength. "I thank God for that every day," she said of her resilience in her interview with The Times. "I think music saved my life."
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