In 2017, she published a book, The Hostage's Daughter: A Story of Family, Madness, and the Middle East which detailed her struggles with drug addiction and depression.[3][4] The book won a bronze Nonfiction Book Award from the Nonfiction Authors Association.[5]
Her father was journalist
Terry A. Anderson, who was kidnapped and held hostage by
Hezbollah from 1985 to 1991. Her mother is Madeleine Bassil, who is Lebanese
Maronite Catholic.[6] On April 22, 2024, she announced her father's death in Greenwood Lake, N.Y.[7]