Eleanor Neale

I think that was kind of the overarching thing of all of this.

She loved to perform.

She loved to entertain.

She loved to make people laugh and smile.

But as she grew a bit older, Anastasia seemed to become a lot less happy-go-lucky and a lot more just problem after problem.

This girl had such a hard time in her life.

She suffered with quite a few physical illnesses over the years.

I don't really know all of them to be able to name to you but I do know a few of the different things that she suffered with.

At one point she developed a tumour behind her right ear that actually blocked a lot of her hearing.

She was almost fully deaf in that ear.

She had to have like a six hour surgery to remove this tumour and she was left with a massive scar.

Oh wait no, the scar was actually from eye surgery because she had really bad eyesight.

Some of the sources I read actually linked the tumour behind her ear and her bad eyesight, saying that the tumour might have caused it.

But yeah, after that she actually had to have surgery on her eyes to correct her eyesight and that was what the scar was from.

She had quite a big one I think on the back of her head.

So she was struggling with a few different physical issues but overall she was a happy child nevertheless.

But when she was about 11 years old, Anna was due to finish primary school and head on to secondary school, which is big school.

It's where all the big kids are.

And her teachers were a little bit concerned about how she was going to go in big school.

In fact, they were so concerned that one of them made a call to Anna's mother to say that they were worried that Anna might actually be a target for bullies in secondary school.