Shelley Ann Beattie was born in Orange County, California, where she at the age of three suffered from severe hearing loss due to overdose of aspirins; the overdose caused her to lose all her ability to hear in one ear and reduced her ability to hear by thirty percent in the other. This event changed her life at an early age. She was raised in ...
For a long time she suffered from depression but only a month before her death, was actually diagnosed with bipolar disorder. While under a doctor's care during a six-week stay at a psychiatric hospital, she attempted suicide by hanging herself on February 13, 2008, and died three days later.
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Her life partner was Julie Moisa.
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Overdosed on aspirin when she was 3 years old, which eventually led to her hearing loss.
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Spectators in the American Gladiators (1989) audience would wave at her to acknowledge that she did well.
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Has been completely deaf since childhood, and received visual cues from referee Larry Thompson when competing in American Gladiators (1989).
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