The actress, whose real name was Lauren Scott, was found dead at her Los Angeles home on Wednesday, the US Sun reported. While the exact cause of death remains unclear, a woman identifying herself as the performer’s aunt said substance abuse may have played a role.
“Lauren was a product of a highly dysfunctional family involving drugs, alcohol, physical, emotional, verbal and sexual abuse,” the woman, Linda Arden, told the Sun. “She died almost exactly two years after her mother’s – my baby sister’s – death, which was caused by addiction and alcoholism.”