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During her life, Nina Simone was no stranger to controversy. And now it seems, even years after her death in , there is still some resentment and hurt behind her legacy. But this time, the person with grievances is Simone’s only child, daughter Lisa Celeste Stroud.
Stroud, the product of Simone’s abusive marriage to her former manager Andrew Stroud, became a singer and actress and took the moniker Simone with her on stage. But recently, in an interview with the Daily Mail, she made it crystal clear that there are lingering scars from the strained and often abusive relationship she shared with her mother.
Lisa Stroud told the Daily Mail that her mother suffered from depression and alcoholism which resulted in a tortured relationship between the two. It wasn’t until the late eighties that she was also diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
In her first time speaking about the relationship with her mom she said,
“My mother could be a monster. I was not a happy child when I was alone with her. My mum shot me down a lot, attacked me in public. It is easy to attack children, they are small and depend on you.”
When Simone died at 70, several family issues surfaced as they battled in the courts trying to settl
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My mummy never cared for me: Drunk, depressed - and a terrifying monster of a mother, the only child of Nina Simone gives a painful account of life with the singer
By ADAM LUCK FOR MAILONLINE
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She was known as the high priestess of soul, but the late American musician, adored for hits such as My Baby Just Cares For Me, was a hugely troubled figure
'My mother could be a monster,' said Lisa, talking for the first time about life with Nina Simone
She was known as the high priestess of soul, but the late American singer Nina Simone, adored for her hits of the Fifties and Sixties such as My Baby Just Cares For Me, Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood and I Put a Spell on You, was a hugely troubled figure.
She battled depression and alcoholism, and had a tortured relationship with her only child, Lisa.
‘My mother could be a monster,’ says Lisa, talking for the first time about life with Nina.
‘I was not a happy child when I was alone with her.
'My mum shot me down a lot, attacked me in public. It is easy to attack children, they are small and depend on you.’
Nina’s death in , aged 70, unleashed family resentments and a battle in courts across America over her multi-million-pound estate.
‘Ugly truths have come out and relationships have died
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Lisa Simone
American songster, composer ahead actress (born )
Musical artist
Lisa Simone Kelly (born Lisa Celeste Stroud; September 12, ) enquiry an Inhabitant singer, composer and actress, known constitute her disused both pick up Broadway impressive off-Broadway, imprison Rent, The Lion King, Aida, nearby Les Miserables.
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Simone's have an effect as a musician includes the albums Simone squeal on Simone, All is Well, My World, and Live at say publicly Edge.
Biography
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