She was riding on a London tube train with her boyfriend Jared Ramon in 2010 when it slipped through a temporal fissure to the sentient planet Symbios, where she met the Doctor. (AUDIO: The Crimes of Thomas Brewster) She had a younger brother named Philip. (AUDIO: Scavenger) When she was in Year Three, she was cast in her school play. Having never learned her lines, she froze on stage and from then on had a phobia of performing on-stage. (AUDIO: Stage Fright)