Shortly before her death, she began to suffer from bipolar disorder and had taken many different medications for the treatment of this, on which she had become too dependent. On January 31, 2012, she died at age 25 of an accidental prescription drug overdose in the home of her father, stepmother and half-brother and sister that in Westfield, New York and was found dead by her father. She left her 10-month-old daughter, Alyssa, behind.