The True Story would have been more interesting!

I have to say I've been researching Frankie's life for the past 10 years and this movie that introduced the world to Frankie could have been better. The truth would have made people understand him more. Many walked away from the movie not truly understanding or knowing Frankie. The truth about his life is more entertaining then what was presented. I hate that the movie was pretty much centered around the three women and Frankie. The women really weren't in his life that long to have been the main focus. I rather the movie be about Frankie and his life and career including some info on the women. Frankie died at 25 but he did more in his life than most people who live to be 50 and maybe that's what killed him...growing up too fast. There was many reasons for his drug addiction that the movie didn't show. He didn't have much of a childhood, his father wasn't around much, possibly an alcoholic or drug addict himself, Frankie had an older brother but Frankie ended up being the one having to go out and support the family at 10, 11, 12 years old. He was out on the street pretty much pimping, getting guys for prostitutes and he would get paid for that with money and sex. He suffered the fate of most child stars, he became a superstar influenced a generation of singers than by 18 became like a has-been, no one wanted to give the adult Frankie Lymon a new chance because of who he was once. No one cared about his new voice or new image, they wanted him to sing like he once did and because of this he developed a hate for Rock N' Roll and R&B, the music that made him a household name. While in show business he was exposed to fast women, partying, and drugs, since he thought he was grown and had no supervision, he wanted to fit in with the older people and got introduced to heroin. At first he did it for fun and recreation like most but the drugs ended up being his escape and cover for pain. His mother died of cancer when he was 17 or 18. His older brother Howie died of a illness. He never could make a comeback. He was taken advantage of. He had no money to show for his childhood success. His marriages were disasters. I read in Jet that he had a baby with his first wife Mickey but the baby girl died two days after being born. The biggest hurt was the fact that he was still young, had a great voice still but couldn't become a star again and many other singers in his age group who he influenced were successful but he couldn't be again. He wasn't where he felt he should be at his age but by no fault of his own but because he was held back from making it. All this hell and hurt he went through definitely contributed to his drug use. He was severely depressed throughout his 20's because of all I explained. The movie never told all about this and the movie should have because it would have presented the true story of Frankie and why he did the things he did. He was a man with many flaws who was suffering and unfortunately found an outlet through heroin but had a good heart. All the wives said Frankie did treat them like queens in the beginning. He was a hopeless romantic not a player or bigamist. I believe the movie made Frankie out to be a low-life and he wasn't, he was trying to survive in a cruel world and in return he did some cruel things.

I hate how the movie left out Frankie's brother Lewis. Lewis should have been involved in the movie not just Frankie's wife who only knew him a few months.