Conflict with her parents after her return at the end of the summer had her run away from home just days after the start of her senior year of high school. Living among other homeless people in both Lancaster and Boston, she turned to sex work to support her drug addiction and recounted later the several instances of her being raped, including once at knifepoint. Despite this, she still attended her high school during the time period she was homeless and was living in a halfway house in Scranton, Pennsylvania while taking her AP exams.