Her mom died during a plastic surgery procedure. Now, Susan Lieu is trying to avenge her death on stage with her one-woman play.
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00:00That morning, she went in for plastic surgery.
00:02Two hours into the operation, she lost oxygen to her brain.
00:06♪♪
00:15♪♪
00:25I can't believe you, Ma!
00:26You die from a tummy tuck,
00:28and then you're telling me what I can and can't eat?
00:31I steal your mom, okay?
00:33I see you when you smoke all the pot,
00:35and you get all the high,
00:37and then you eat the whole bag potato chip,
00:39then you all sad, sad, you cannot wear bikini!
00:42It's been a forcing function for me to, like, interview my family
00:46and retrace my mom's last day
00:48and read all these legal depositions
00:49and really figure out what was happening,
00:51because no one in my family ever wanted to talk about it.
00:53And I was just like, no more.
00:55Like, I'm an adult now,
00:57and I need to have closure on this.
01:00And so I go, I look for the doctor,
01:03I reach out to his family,
01:06and then I produce this show.
01:09♪♪
01:20My godmother used to say that no one would ever love me
01:23if I wasn't a size zero, max size two.
01:26Well, guess what?
01:28I'm a size eight, and I'm married up because he's Korean!
01:32The gold standard for Asian hotness.
01:37It's brought me to this really beautiful place,
01:40because now it's like, I forgive the doctor and his family.
01:44I'm not mad.
01:47I'm not mad at my mom for leaving me
01:49and dying what I thought was, like, a senseless death, right?
01:52It was elective cosmetic surgery.
01:54It wasn't something that...
01:55And that's why, like, I never wanted to share this,
01:57was because it wasn't, like, a good way to die.
02:00It was something that she had some agency in.
02:03♪♪
02:05I come from a family of hustlers,
02:08spirit channelers, and survivors,
02:10and I'm not going to let one negligent man
02:13control my destiny or my mother's story.
02:17I'm 140 pounds.
02:20She was 140 pounds.
02:23And so much more.
02:25♪♪
02:26-♪♪