[citation needed] Her younger brother is choreographer Robert, who has also worked in films as an actor.
[2] Alphonsa had lived with an upcoming actor, Vinod, in a live-in relationship for two years, before he committed suicide in 2012.
Alphonsa also then attempted suicide in March 2012 by consuming excessive sleeping pills, but was saved.
[citation needed] Reports initially emerged casting suspicion over the actress's involvement in Vinod's death.
She stated that Vinod had played the lead in a movie called Kavasam, alongside Murali, which was put on hold because of financial problems, and that the failure to make it as an actor in films despite half a decade of hard work had him feeling depressed enough to commit suicide.