Film legend's only surviving child back in family home after 35 years
It has been almost 35 years since Shannon Lee, the only surviving child of movie and martial arts legend Bruce Lee, set foot inside 41 Cumberland Road, Kowloon Tong, the former home of the movie star.
'I was four [when I left]. I haven't been back to the house since I lived there,' said Lee, 39, daughter of the late star and his wife, Linda Lee Cadwell.
'It looks pretty different from when I lived there, when it was much more of a house. It had a yard. Now it's kind of concrete and closed off ... that's sort of not charming ... and not just because it is a [love] hotel.'
The 'Crane's Nest', the childhood home that for her is filled with many happy memories of herself, her father and her late brother, Brandon, playing in the front area of the house, is no longer the same. It has become a popular love hotel - the Romance Hotel, that while the Post was there, was busy with flashy cars and guests coming and going.
'I only have flashes of memories because I was so young, but certainly one thing I remember about my father was that, he was extremely playful ... It was always a lot of fun,' Lee recalled. 'He taught a lot [of martial arts] to Brandon because he was older. I was only four. I had only informal training.'