*Keyshia Cole’s biopic premiered on Lifetime Saturday and the singer admits that filming scenes about her late mother was emotionally challenging.
In “Keyshia Cole: This Is My Story,” the multiple Grammy-award nominee makes her acting debut, playing herself, in the new biopic following Cole’s early days in Oakland honing her musical talents to her rise to fame. The film also highlights Cole’s complicated relationship with her mother Frankie Lons played by Debbi Morgan. Lons died on her 61st birthday in July 2021 from an accidental overdose.
At a recent screening of the biopic and Q&A in Los Angeles, Cole said she struggled while filming some of the scenes about her mother.
“It was difficult,” she told the audience at the Grammy Museum, Urban Hollywood 411 reports.
“The casket [scene] was really difficult,” Cole shared. “The rehab scene was really difficult.”
“It was also something like my last goodbye to her, in a way,” she explained.
Cole also noted how supportive Morgan was during some of the highly emotional scenes.
“She just kept saying, ‘I feel like your mom is here,’” Cole recalled Morgan telling her, and the veteran actress added “‘Not everybody is perfect.’”
Directed by D’Angela Proctor and Manu Boyer, Lifetime describes the biopic as “a story of childhood trauma, tragedy, complexity of love and overcoming obstacles to become the best version of oneself.”
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