[clarification needed] In September 1990, her mother threw her out of the presidential house during a nervous breakdown.

Beginning in the 1990s, Zoilamérica recounted that her sexual harassment of her by the former president became telephone calls, and was never physical again.

[3] From her exile in Costa Rica she condemned her stepfather during the 2021 Nicaraguan general election.

[4] Her mother is Rosario Murillo, her father was Jorge Narváez Parajón (m. 1967; d. 1968).

The 2019 documentary film Exiliada (Exiled) revolves around and interviews her, as well as her complaints of sexual abuse against Ortega in 1998.