The Mirror: “When he walked on to the ward and saw him, Dad was completely gutted.“He kept visiting him from that day forward and they stayed friends.“But I think from an early age I realised people feared my dad.
We didn’t have a normal upbringing.”Even when Lenny tried to get on the straight and narrow, with the family buying a newsagents in the late 80s, his violent streaks came out.He once hurled the till at the head of a man who said he had short changed him – by a penny.McLean described his family as his "rock," whose existence helped him to reject a life solely devoted to crime, and for whom he maintained some self-control during his fights.Kelly believes her dad had a version of bipolar disorder, after she too was diganosed with it.She said: “I wish he was here now so I could get him some help.
I don’t think he enjoyed life. He always looked like he had the world on his shoulders.” Lenny eventually became a cult figure and fell into acting after being asked to “mind” the cast of EastEnders.This kickstarted his carer as an actor and he stared in Guy Ritchie’s 1998 crime thriller Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.He died in July later that year of terminal lung cancer.For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here..
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