Her father, Vernon Franklin Moorer, a school teacher, was an alcoholic and abused his family on a regular basis. On an early morning in the summer of 1986, he shot her mother, Laura Lynn Smith Moorer, and then shot himself.
Alumna of the Delta Sigma chapter of Kappa Delta Sorority.
Mother, with ex-husband Steve Earle, of son John Henry Earle (b. April 5, 2010).
Her son John was diagnosed with autism at 23 months old.