I don't find it hard to care about someone like Lulu. She's no different from any of us. The problem people have, I think, is that someone like her seems to have no worries - she has fame and money and could, theoretically, have anything she wants. How can she possibly not be satisfied with that? The fact is, though, that she's had to hold down a job just like the rest of us, with her job being completely dependent upon looking great ALL the time. Can't ever leave the house without looking immaculate, can't slob down to the corner shop for a Sunday paper in trackie bottoms and without makeup, because it could literally threaten her career. Knowing that every word she says could finish up in the papers, never knowing if someone wants to know her for who she is and what they can get from her. Not the pressures most of us have to deal with, but pressure nevertheless, and horrendous if you're depressed and are of the age where you can't any longer stop the looks that your life has depended on for the past 50 years deteriorating. Look how much QVC customers shell out for skin care and gadgets to try to hold back time - imagine how it must feel to be ageing when you're photographed every time you set foot outside the door.
With regard to her not looking after her son, Lulu has talked about that and I also saw John Frieda interviewed about it, because people love to pick on it as an example of what a terrible person she is. The boy wasn't a child, he was a teenager, John Frieda was moving to the USA after their divorce and wanted to take the boy with him, and Lulu admitted that she was "a complete mess" because she hadn't recovered from a miscarriage and was devastated by the divorce. Both she and Frieda thought it would be better for their son at that time for him to live with his dad. The fact that her son and his family are so close to her is testament to the fact that he didn't have a problem with that.