During the mid-eighties, at age 17, she left home and moved to London, England, where she became a musician, playing drums with local rock bands.
Her novel Cortex depicts a domestic terrorist attack at the Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles and parts ways with her previous themes.
The follow-up, La Grâce et les ténèbres (Grace and Darkness), highlights cyber-surveillance and the fight against jihadist propaganda on social networks alongside a group of French citizens named the Katiba des Narvalos.
She was close friends to Daul Kim and Lee Alexander McQueen and paid them tribute in the French magazine Libération.
She was strongly rejected by a part of the French gay and lesbian community[citation needed] after declaring on the set of French TV show Nulle Part Ailleurs that she found homosexuality "immature":[6] "Being bisexual has often brought some kind of balance to my life, but having strict homosexual relationships led to pathological experiences for me".