nietoperz wrote:Lena Zavarone! I remember her from when I was growing up: she won a TV talent show with that song, after having been pushed into it by her nightmare of a mother. She died of anorexia in the end...
Yeah, poor girl.
Actually, I think following her lobotomy surgery she died from complications of pneumonia, but all of that could be said to be due to her life-threatening struggle with depression and anorexia. It's amazing that in 1999, our understanding of neurology was still so rudimentary and that a lobotomy was still the "cure" for a lot of people.