[1] Keenan is known for her biography Broken, in which she discusses the long-term and extreme sexual abuse she experienced from her stepfather, Stanley Claridge.
[3] For her work with sexual abuse victims, Keenan received a Women Of The Year award in 2008.
[4] In 2013 Keenan's fourteen-year-old son Ayden Olson was discovered dead within his home, having committed suicide.
[8][1] One encounter at age 10 left her with a fractured skull and Claridge kept Keenan and others from escaping by telling them that he had murdered various people and buried them under the house.
Macdonald stated that Keenan had "sent an explicit and disgusting tape recording of her father talking about abusing children to the police and social services - they did nothing.