✦Her style of music and appearance led her to become known as the Debbie Gibson of Canada.
✦Was robbed in L.A. while walking on a deserted street, an experience that subsequently developed to intense and general angst such as daily panic attacks.
✦Hosted the 2004 Juno Awards dressed in a bathrobe, which she took off to reveal a flesh-coloured bodysuit, in response to the era of censorship in the U.S.
✦Suffered from anorexia and bulimia in her teens, prompted by the managerial demands of her body image.
✦Became an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church, in mid 2004.