What a shocking news to wake up to and it just brings me back exactly 20 years in 2003 when news broke about Leslie Cheung’s passing. Hong born and America raised singer superstar Coco Lee (Lee Wen) has passed away as confirmed by her two older sisters in an official announcement. She was 48-years old and took her own life on July 2nd and was discovered by her elderly mother in her own home. After being rushed to the hospital and on life support for three days, she passed away. Coco was one of the last mega super stars in Canto- and Mando-pop and even reached the Oscar stage as the singer and voice of the Chinese-dubbed version of the Disney animated movie Mulan. She was married to Canadian music mogul Bruce Rockowitz but never had any kids with him. Reportedly the two have been separated for half a year after she caught Bruce cheating multiple times with much younger women, and recently Coco had surgery for a long standing spinal and leg pain problem and was recovering. Her sisters wrote that Coco was suffering from depression these past few years and ultimately is at peace now.
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