[6] Through his son Luther, she is the great-great granddaughter of William Rufus Day, who was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

[citation needed] She moved to Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, where she shared a house with Pamela Adlon.

[17] In August 2013, she wrote an op-ed piece for The New York Times examining the public dislike directed toward her character.

[18] In 2011, Gunn had a lead role in the Lifetime film Secrets of Eden, opposite John Stamos.

[20] In 2014, Gunn starred Off-Broadway with Billy Magnussen in Sex with Strangers, directed by David Schwimmer at Second Stage Theater.

[24] In 2019, Gunn starred as Maxine Faulk in the Noël Coward Theater limited-time production of Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana.