in the late 1960s durbin began a relationship with expatriate new zealand record producer howard gable, then a senior a&r manager/house producer for emi australia, and they subsequently married and started a family. during the 1970s, as her career waned, durbin began using heroin and her marriage to gable ended. in 1985 she publicly acknowledged her battle with drugs and sought treatment at odyssey house, a drug rehabilitation centre, but she was struck by a car just after her release from the centre, which left her with serious injuries, including a broken jaw. after she recovered, she worked as a country music singer in the late 1980s. on 1 june 2007, under her married name allison giles, she was sentenced to 12 months' jail for cannabis trafficking. one of her co-accused, the man she allegedly supplied with marijuana, was the convicted drug dealer giuseppe "joe" barbaro.