A Sick Life: TLC 'n Me: Stories from On and Off the Stage

A candid memoir of fame strength family and friendship from the lead singer of TLC As the lead singer of Grammy-winning supergroup TLC Tionne T-Boz Watkins has seen phenomenal fame success and critical acclaim. But backstage she has lived a dual life. In addition to the balancing act of juggling an all-consuming music career and her family Tionne has struggled her whole life with sickle-cell diseasea debilitating and incurable condition that can render her unable to perform walk or even breathe. A Sick Life chronicles Tionnes journey from a sickly young girl in Des Moines who was told she wouldnt live to see 30 through her teen years in Atlanta to how she broke into the music scene and became the superstar musician and sickle-cell disease advocate she is today. Through Tionnes tough funny tell-it-like-it-is voice she shares how she found the inner strength grit and determination to live her dream despite her often unpredictable and debilitating health issues. She dives deep into never-before-told TLC stories including accounts of her friendship with Lisa Left-Eye Lopes and her tragic death. Tionnes unvarnished discussion of her remarkable life disease unending strength and ability to power through the odds offers a story like no other.