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Tulisa: My Mum and Me

"A brave, eye-opening, and...potentially life changing film" Radio Times

"What a service the once derided BBC Three does for its target audience (and me) by using celebrity to open eyes to the awful variety of teenage experience" The Times


Broadcast on BBC3 August 2010

Tulisa Contostavlos is best known for being the girl in the pop band N-Dubz, but she is also a carer for her mum who has suffered from a mental illness since before Tulisa was born. In this personal, authored documentary, Tulisa finds out what life is like for some of the 80,000 other young people in Britain caring for a parent with mental health problems.




Tulisa: My Mum and Me from Rowan Deacon on Vimeo.

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