I went to work. That was a turning point. When you have to do eight shows a week and your name is on the marquee, no matter what is going on at home or what's on the cover of the newspapers, you've got to do your job.

I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life.

I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team.

I have a little baby. She knows who I am. My friends know. My family knows.

My personal life was fair game. And that's what hurt me.

When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York.

Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.