Background
Ana Rose Morlan was born on January 3, 1958, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. From 1961 to 1969, she lived in Los Angeles, California. She changed her legal birth name Arlette Renee to Ana Rose.
Morlan told about her family in an interview: "The past few years have been very traumatic personally; I’ve had problems with my mother ever since her mother passed in 1999, and a few years ago she moved out, and right after that my father and his family "found" me after losing touch with me for fifty years (it turns out I’d been kidnapped after my mother lost custody of me; rather than turn me over to my father, she and her mother took me out of state, halfway across the country, and he wasn’t able to find me), which created a great deal of stress and unhappiness for me; finding out that I should’ve had another type of life rather than the constant abuse and neglect which I did end up enduring was quite an emotional shock to me. And when my father and his relatives told me that my accounts of what had happened to me were upsetting them - and subsequently ordered me to never mention any of it to them! - I ended up spending several years mired in a PTSD (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder) haze, until I finally decided to sever all contact with him and them."
