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Pop legend Lulu has stunned fans by revealing that writing her upcoming memoir was so emotionally traumatic, it pushed her into therapy – and she’s just getting started.
The 75-year-old singer, best known for hits like Shout and To Sir With Love, is preparing to lift the lid on a lifetime of personal struggles, deep secrets, and untold heartache in her long-awaited autobiography If Only You Knew, set for release on September 25.
In a candid and emotional interview with The Sun, Lulu admitted that digging into her past for the book triggered a torrent of buried emotions she’s spent decades suppressing, leading her to seek professional help.
“I was brought up by a mother who would constantly nag me and say, ‘Don’t wash your dirty linen in public’,” she explained. “The message I got was, ‘Don’t tell anybody anything. Keep it to yourself’. So they became secrets.”
And now, for the first time, she’s ready to break her silence. “There’s a lot of things in my life I have never spoken about that I talk about in this book,” she confessed. “It’s been intense. I’ve had to go into therapy. It’s been quite a thing this past year.”
The Scottish-born star, who shot to fame at just 15 years old, says it was a friend’s comment that prompted her to finally write her story: “Somebody said to me, ‘People think they know Lulu, but nobody knows you’. And that really hit me.”
The process of confronting decades of pain and long-suppressed memories wasn’t easy. “Dislodging them, pulling them up, dredging them up, it was not easy,” she said. “That took a lot of physical, mental effort. Lots of tears.”
But the healing journey hasn’t just been personal, it’s also inspired a powerful mission. Lulu has now launched Lulu’s Mental Health Trust, a new charitable fund dedicated to supporting mental wellbeing and raising awareness of emotional struggles, especially for those suffering in silence.
To kick off the campaign, she led a heartfelt charity walk across London yesterday, retracing her footsteps from the past. The walk started in Shadwell, East London, where she filmed the iconic To Sir With Love in 1967, and finished at a Camden recording studio where she belted out her classic hit Shout. The walk raised over £15,000 for her new cause.
With If Only You Knew promising never-before-told revelations, this is shaping up to be one of the most explosive celebrity memoirs of the year. From fame to family, heartbreak to healing, Lulu is finally ready to tell her truth.
Brace yourself: this isn’t the Lulu you thought you knew.
