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

If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.

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

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.

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

What was a really private and nice relationship was judged and made to be something ugly.

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.