My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.

Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.

My brother was really smart, and I definitely had a little ADD - I was very creative and active - and my mom thought, 'Why should I send them to school when they can work at a higher level at home?'

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