It was funny. That even I thought there were very few people coming to this sitethe past months. It was like everyone had forgotten. Only a few post in a months time. It saddened me. But there was one certain post in the last few weeks that confirmed that there are still plenty who care. Silent but here. I thank you all who came to Andreas defense when someone wrote to try to take her honor of who she was away. It is you. The fans, family, and friends who made up very much of Andrea. And yes thru all of us she remains with us.
Andrea was like you and me. And when the time would come she would love playing a role of an actress. She knew her popularity was gaining and people started to talk about her. And she could play the role. She loved to be around positive people. She very much liked talking to her fans. She loved the fact that she was doing something that would make her financialy secure back home. She respected everyone who respected her. She did not hold ill will on anyone. She was the type of person who would try anything once. And when she had a chance she would take it. I never got into food with her for some reason so I couldn't tell you what she loved to eat. My guess would be that she liked pastries. But that is just a wild guess. I do know she loved fancy dinners. I remember when she called me from a party. She had been drinking. In fact she had overdone it at the time. You could tell she was drunk.It was funny. She was talking about Monica and Silvie and me were doing this and that. And then they were going to do this and that. After she was done she realized (after I finally could let her know it was me) she meant to call someone else. I was laughing and she was laughing and she said "sorry I called". Then she hung up. I knew the circumstances and chuckled it off. Thirty minutes later or abouts she called me up sobbing a bit telling me she was sorry she hung up on me. I told her I understood and said she needed to get to bed. She was a person that always wanted to make sure all was good. She was a very sweet, considerate person. Remembering and looking back is bittersweet for me. I remember just before she passed I was going to save some money to go and see her this past summer. It's very heartbreaking she's gone. But I am blessed that she was and still is and will always be a part of my life. In a way bigger than her or I actually realized it to be. Everyone that reads this think of the closest person to you and call them right now. Tell them you love them. Because you never ever really know when it will be the last.
Like I said before, Andrea was like all of us. She had people she loved and people she did not like at all. In all circles of her life. She mostly coped with them just how you or I would normaly cope with it. For the most part she did not dwell on it. Tom would be only a faint little memory if that by now. So, we should let that be as well. We all got our say in. Now it is time to move on. Andrea really tried to be positive. And she would really try to stay away from a negative situation if possible. Most the time. Even though there were those people she disliked I never ever heard her call anyone an enemy. She had disagreements that she stood firm on with friends and family. Just like most of us. She had feelings just like us.
For the most part she was practical. Sometimes when she would mention something I would wonder what she was thinking. But she had a level head and quite knowing what she was getting herself into most of the time. Or at least it seemed that way. Andrea would dress quite casual usually. With the exception of special events. She did know, but really did not like thinking about it, know that eventually her time would be done in the adult film business. And though she did not exactly mention what, she apparently had something or wanted to make sure she had something to fall back on career wise after her movie career was over. I do know very much so that she loved children. And she was seriously thinking about starting a family. But she did not want to be busy traveling and raising children. And there were other personal issues that she wanted to try to work out before she had children. Andrea seemed like more of a people person. She had gone thru good times and bad. She seemed to relate to others well. She still talked about diving. She was proud and always rooting for her sister Lucie when she was diving. For those of you that do not know Lucie dives. I really think that diving was her first love. She missed the competitions. I think I remember that she actually still did dive for fun. To say Andrea was fearful. That makes me chuckle. And she would be chuckling too. If there was something that you told her she couldn't do, she would try it to prove wrong.
And I would like to clarify that I physically seen Andrea very little. However, I did speak with her on the phone and chatted on the net and also conversed with emails quite often with her. We had a mutual feeling for eachother. It was a distant sibling feeling of sorts. We shared a lot of personal information with eachother. We had fun. What I am saying is that everything here I say here is pretty much what I know of Andrea. She may of been very diffrent around and talking with diffrent people. I will also state here that there are things that I am very reluctant to say. Please understand that there are things that were told to me that should and shall remain private. Unless of course it comes to a book of some sorts. I really do not know if Chris still is planning a book or not. But if he does, everything that you should know will probably be in that book. I think Andreas family along with Chris should be the ones that do a book, if there will be a book. Of course it would be an autobiography.
Dear Para, many thanks for what you told us about Andrea. Like the others I like to know more of her, but for sure we alle have to respect, that you want to keep some things in private.
It was very silent on the forum for many month and I didn’t visit it for some weeks, because there were no new entries and I myself had nothing to say. I never met Andrea or talked to her, so I couldn’t tell anything about her. But not talking about her doesn’t mean, that she is out of mind. Even after nearly a year I often think about her and I open Lea’s page every two or three days to see, if Chris wrote an update. And I’m sure, I’m not the only one. So even if there is not much reply on this forum, people are still looking to it and do not want Andrea to be forgotten.
What you wrote about the phone call from Andrea when she was drunken and the later call, whe she just wanted to say sorry, was very nice. Little examples like this shows what a person she was, more than all general words about her can do. So I just want to say thanks for it.
Yes Frank, I also am one who has not posted very much until Tom had made his comments on here. And I can see by how many views are in just this little topic that people are coming here. And that is very comforting. I myself would like to see an update here about every four to six weeks. But there could be just the case of there is really much to say. However, there is issues such as there was a book that was a possiblility. Is it still? And much more to that effect. The special thing that I think this site brings is that Andreas friends, family, and fans were both contributing. Letting us know what was going on. This has unfortunatley has slowed to almost nothing now. Though Chris did stop and comment on some of Toms comments. And for all of you that come to see what is going on out of love and caring I think Andrea would thank you from the bottom of her heart. Telling you there would be no words to express her gradatude. All of you that just visit to see what is going on means that Andrea is still with us in thought. And regardless of some peoples thoughts on her. She totally desrves to be rememberd. Not because of what she did. But because of who she was.
I was a big fan of Andrea and I really felt a crushing loss when she left. I think that says alot about a person that I never met, that she can come across as such a beautiful person.
Para, when I go to Prague is there any of Andreas favourite places ie bars, restaurants that you could tell me to visit?
With high interest I'm reading all the posts and I must apologize that I'm not able to update this site as often and as extensive as requested by some fans/friends of Lea. As far as I knew her she wouldn't believe that anybody in the world still might be interested in her fate after one long year anyway. I do, however. Because she was one of the sweetest persons I've ever met. This is not just talking good about somebody who's not with us anymore.
After reading the interesting passages of Para I guess he even knew her better that I did. And I hope he will be able to write a little more from time to time, whenever nice little events come back to his memory. What he wrote so far about her was 100% fitting to my personal impression of Andrea.
There were rumours about a book? I think I've never mentioned anything like that. I can only remember that I told Andrea in the hospital that whenever I should write a book about my photography in Prague she would play a main and very positive role in it. She was curious and already wanted to read it, but I had to clarify that it was only just an idea, not a real project. So I read to her a few lines from my diary. Only a few weeks later when I was back in Germany, Lucie sent me a message: Andrejka has just passed away ...
Right now I'm in Prague again and Lucie gave me some information which will be the basis of Lea's biography. Within the next week I should be able to put it online. I also try to finally get some stories from Silvie, Daniela and others whom Lea worked and travelled with.
Somebody asked what Andrea liked to eat? I can only tell that she was crazy about Sushi. And she mentioned a good Sushi Bar in Prague which she and I wanted to visit one time. It never happened. Lucie told me that she was there with her sister when she already received brutal chemo and radiation therapy after her brain operation. Andrea ate her Sushi as if she was in a hurry. When they drove home she had to spit it all out. I don't know the name not the exact place of this Sushi Bar. I can ask Lucie.
When you come to Prague where can I go to worship Andrejka? As there is still no place at the cemetery I go to the different places where we've taken our last pictures. Besides these locations I only know the street where Andrea lived as a child and where her mother took me at Xmas 2004. See the photos and name of the street: http://www.y-in-brackets.com/PM/LeaDeMae/G3/index.html.
I think it is very comforting here to have someone here that posts once in a while like you or Lucie that was on hand thru Andreas illness. And she may of shared diffrent things with me than you. But to say I knew her better I think it would not be accurate. In her hardest times YOU were there. Physically, mentaly, emotionly for her. Do not for one minute sell yourself short. To do the things and the sacrifices you personaly and professionally made goes way above friendship. You were one of those people in Andreas life that made everyday worth while. I always believe a special person keeps other special people close to them. And I mean this personal behalf from one of Andreas friends to another. Thank you for all you had done for her. And thank you for even setting up this page. You undoubtedly have done everything you could to help Andrea and her family. In a business that can be so uncaring you totally show the opposite side of what it could be like. Take warmth in the fact that others have seen your kindness and I hope it returns to you 10 fold.