Birthday: May 25, 1951.

Birthplace: New York City.

Current home: Santa Monica, Calif.

Occupation: Actress.

Marital status: Divorced twice.

Child: Jesse Wayne Johnson, 6. Don Johnson is his father.

Working on: Playing Amber Twine in CBS’ Wiseguy, and Cathy Evelyn Smith in Wired, the movie about John Belushi.

I stay home to watch: All My Children and Santa Barbara.

The book I’ve been recommending lately is: The Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley.

Nickname: Trouble.

Favorite childhood memory: Shopping with my grandmother at Bloomingdale’s in New York and then having tea at the Plaza.

Nobody knows I’m: Very vulnerable.

I’ve never been able to: Stop getting crushes on men.

I’d give anything to have met: Marilyn Monroe. I’d like to know if her beauty mark was real.

My fantasy is: I’m on the beach in Positano, Italy, surrounded by several thousand kids, five of whom are mine.

The one thing I can’t stand is: People who do drugs. I won’t tolerate them around me.

People who knew me in high school thought I: Wouldn’t live to see 21. I was wild.

I knew I was a grown–up when I: Am I a grown-up? What a concept!

My most irrational act: Taking the first puff of a marijuana cigarette. I wish I had never done it.

When I’m feeling sorry for myself, I: Write poetry.

Nobody would believe it if they saw me: Naked. I’ve got tattoos all over me.

If I’ve learned one thing in life, it’s: Pray every day.

My most humbling experience: Realizing I was an addict.