Frequently Asked Questions

This website is aimed to help people who are lost and broken like I was. It also was created to show you the LOVE of GOD through JESUS CHRIST. So, with sharing the main focus of the website, I want everyone to know that I do not mind answering some questions about my friendship with the Nicks family. The Nicks are still very dear friends of mine. I have a lot of love and respect for them. I just want to keep the main focus on HIM and how HE can change a life.

(For answers, click on the specific questions.)

 

 

Please feel free to go to the Ask Cheryl page and submit any other questions you may have.  

 

Is there anything about your past life that you miss?

Yes. It wasn’t easy to give up the spotlight and a very lucrative career for an uncertain future. But, as I grew in my faith and love for Christ, I found the pull of my past life growing dimmer and dimmer, and my desire for the things of God growing stronger each day.   (back to top)

 

Was the cost of your former life too high a price to pay for fame and fortune?

Yes, and this is why God brought it to an abrupt end. I truly believe He ordained my prison experience as a place and time where He could bring me to true freedom. In the end, the time I spent behind bars was a very small price to pay to find the love of God.   (back to top)

 

What was it like spending four years in prison?

It was the most difficult thing I have ever had to endure. But at the same time, it was the very best thing that could have happened to me at that time of my life. Prison forced me to deal with issues that I’d never had the courage to face. And the bottom line is, I belonged there for all the unacceptable things I had done in my life up until that point.

With my freedom taken entirely away—along with the ability to make even the simplest choices about my daily life—I was completely stripped of my pride, was forced to evaluate my choices and behavior, and, ultimately, was put in a position where all I could do was simply receive and embrace the healing and transforming love of Jesus Christ.   (back to top)

 

How did you become a Stevie Nicks impersonator?

I was raised in Arizona where Stevie Nicks is from, and as I grew up many people commented on how much I resembled her. Someone told me about the popularity of look-a-like shows and how well celebrity impersonators were paid. After I placed third in a look-a-like contest where I impersonated Stevie, my entertainment career took off.   (back to top)

 

How did you meet Stevie Nicks’ family?

One of my backup singers invited me to a concert with some of the staff from a local radio station. While I was relaxing in the station’s RV, a Nicks’ song came on the radio. While singing along, I suddenly heard a commotion outside. A large crowd had gathered around a metal fence outside where the RV was parked, and people were shouting excitedly that Stevie Nicks was in the motor home.

As the crowd grew more frenzied, I became fearful and locked myself in the bathroom. A half-hour later one of the staff from the radio station showed up to rescue me. He was accompanied by Mary Lou and Gene Nicks, Stevie Nicks’ aunt and uncle, who owned the concert facility with Stevie’s father, Jess Nicks.

In my book, Looking for Love, I tell what it was like to develop meaningful relationships with members of the Nicks family.  (back to top)

 

What inspired you to write the book Looking for Love?

From a very young age I was repeatedly abused—physically, emotionally, and sexually—at the hands of various people in whom I had placed my deepest trust. I watched helplessly as my own mother struggled in a relationship with an abusive man. Because I had very few positive role models, my own search to find love in the world became an enormous uphill battle.

I began looking for love in all the wrong places, but nothing could fill the emptiness I felt deep inside. I had been introduced to God’s love early in my life by a caring teacher, and that tiny glimmer of hope eventually became a shining beacon at the end of a very dark tunnel. After years of battling abuse, depression, gambling, and finally a four-year prison sentence, I experienced a powerful vision from God—which led me to give my heart and life to Jesus Christ.

Ironically, I discovered that the very love I had sought for years had been right there in front of me all along. Looking for Love was inspired by my journey to faith in Christ. Writing my story fulfilled a deep hope that others might benefit from own experience.   (back to top)

 

What caused you to become a follower of Christ?

I was first brought face-to-face with Christ when my eighth grade teacher asked me to stay after class one day. I was twelve years old, and I was afraid she was going to turn me in for being stoned in her class. But instead, she shared Christ with me, and invited me to be part of a Bible study she had. I went and was exposed to God’s Word, but because my heart was cold, that Word fell on rocky ground and didn’t affect my life at that point in time.

But the seed of God’s love had been planted in my heart, and somehow God protected it there. For many years I lived in darkness and sin, until one day I found myself at the end of all hope, alone in a prison cell. It was there that I cried out to God to let me die—and it was there that He began to pour His life into me.

In my new book Looking for Love you will read about the powerful vision God gave me while I was in prison, and how He transformed my life through Jesus Christ.   (back to top)

 

What are you doing with your life today?

First and foremost, I am a child of God through faith in Christ. Secondly, I am an evangelist, author, speaker, and singer for Him, going wherever He takes me to share the gospel of Jesus Christ, in order to help people who are as lost as I once was.   (back to top)