• Was raised in a cult called The Children of God, the same cult the Phoenix's were part of. Rose's father ran the Italian chapter.

• Did not have a birth certificate until she was 10-years old so her birthdate is not absolutely certain.

• Handcuffed herself to the Denver capital building for a Save the Whales campaign when she was 9-

• Changed schools often as a child as her family rarely stayed long in one place. In some cities she would be popular while in others she was constantly picked on. "In some towns, I'd be the hot, popular thing, and then in the next I'd be a total freak."

• Says she has spent most of her life being depressed.

• Was locked up in a drug-rehab clinic at 14 because of her appearance, although she had not done drugs at that time. She hated it, ran away and was homeless for a year.

• Legally emancipated herself from her parents at the age of 15. She even represented herself on the court! "I remember the judge being extremely impressed."

• Dreams of being a museum curator. She hates the way so many museums have become archaic and unfriendly to younger people and dreams of opening them up so that the average person can connect to the art within.

• Led a discussion on sexual assault facts and myths at UC Irvine New University in 2006. "I am just here as a girl who has had sexual assault touch my life. I have been grabbed at while in concerts and had guys stick their hands up my skirt in clubs."

• Loves living in Los Angeles. "I wish the people that say they hate it would just go away, because I need their parking space."

• Collects Marlene Dietrich and Shirley Temple memorabilia.

• Is fascinated by the 1930s era.

• Absolutely hates fish. "My dad used to sit on me, and try to shove salmon down my mouth and I refused to eat it. That was no way to get me to eat it."

• Refuses to eat lamb, pork, rabbit, or fish

• The only thing worse than fish to Rose is the thought of having a baby. "I'd love to hire out", she says.

• Says most of her boyfriends have been Jewish.

• Met former fiancée Marilyn Manson at the premiere of Gummo in October 1997. He had had a crush on Rose ever since he saw The Doom Generation, which he describes in his autobiography, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell.

• Used to dance at gay clubs because she didn't want guys hitting on her but she once ended up being gay bashed! "I travelled to Portland and started hanging out in gay clubs, where you could spend all night and be safe - although I was gay-bashed one time coming out of a club. I got socked in the face because someone thought I was a lesbian, and I woke up in the parking lot. But this isn't even an eighth of the things that happened to me."

• She prefers gay and lesbian clubs, where the music's better and no one's going to hit on her. Infact Rose refers to gay people as "my people".

• Drank too much champagne on her 21st birthday and was rushed to the hospital with alcohol poisoning. She came to wearing a satin gown and realized she had mistakenly been placed in a paediatric Aids ward.

• Loves singing and writes her own music. She dreams of releasing her own album some day.

• Is addicted to karaoke and has her own karaoke machine.

• Knows every Patsy Cline song by heart.

• Enjoys knitting, gardening and baking.

• In 2004 the viewers of Live with Regis and Kelly voted Rose to look best as a brunette. She dyed her hair back to dark brown shortly after.

• Absolutely loves dogs, especially small ones.

• Had a pet lamb called Lambie as a child. "...Until they decided to cook him for dinner."

• Is terrified of heights. "But I've jumped out of a plane three times, and I go on roller coasters although I hate them."

• During her trip to Hawaii she swam with dolphins, even though she's terrified of water and doesn't really know how to swim.

• Goes to strange places by herself, like a small island off Turkey swimming with Russian mobsters, and a weird, isolated mountain town in the middle of Mexico: "It’s a very dangerous place to go, but my thought process, my security, was to go get a really dark fake tan – that way I would blend in, not look like a white chick wandering around and have to have a security guard with me."

• Knows a fair amount about Jeffery Dahmer and other serial killers.

• Loathes the words 'romantic' and 'lover'. She likes 'oh my goodness' and 'for corns sake' and her favorite curse word is 'cocksucker'.

• Describes herself tenacious, warm and quick.

• Says that she is a big klutz: "My body is always moving and oftentimes my brain is left behind."

• When she dies, she wants to be buried under a weeping willow.

• Admires Clara Bow, Claudette Colbert and Barbara Stanwyck.

• Among the living actors she likes Jessica Lange, Susan Sarandon, Reese Witherspoon, Toni Collette, Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Will Ferrell, Kevin Spacey and Tom Cruise.

• Beauty icons include Joan Collins, Ava Gardner and Elizabeth Taylor; "I tend to gravitate toward women with dark hair. I like people with strong looks, like Paloma Picasso."

• Considers marriage the ultimate compliment.

• Weirdest fan experience? "Probably a 65-year-old cab driver stopping the car and turning around to hug me in New York."

• Her best and worst Valentine's stories; "I was proposed to on Valentine's Day so I suppose that would be the best, and I suppose dumping someone on Valentines Day. I don't know if that would be their worst or my worst but I felt badly."

• Her favorite Charmed episodes are The Power Of Three Blondes and Charmed Noir and least favorite Oh My Goddess; "Because the outfits were awful. We look Greek, first of all, so I look like I'm wearing a toga. Secondly, I just didn't like it." She also disliked Nymphs Just Want To Have Fun.

• Is a fan of Nicole Ritchie. "Paris Hilton is very sweet but Nicole Ritchie, she seems one pancake short of a stack. She's become my hero."

• Considers Julianne Moore a hero of hers. "When I get depressed and I'm stuck in a certain place, I think about how she busted out in her very late thirties. She's an amazing talent and crazy beautiful."

• Had such major commitment issues when joining Charmed that she went to see a hypnotherapist to get rid of her fears. "Now I have to take one day at a time so I don't freak out." She originally wanted and expected to only do one season.

• Absolutely loves the candy 'Laffy Taffy' by Wonka and her favorite flavour is Grape. "People give me fancy chocolate, but I eat 'Laffy Taffy', OK? If you cut open my stomach, you'll see giant globs of hydronated purple stuff."

• Is a huge old movie buff and stops at 1962 (after Doris Day, she says).

• Overall prefers Los Angeles to New York City – although she loved living on Charles Street in the West Village, while dating Men's Health editor-in-chief Dave Zinczenko. She isn't a fan of the cold weather – or all the snobs: "I just hate it, I can't bear it. I find it to be as small-minded as any other small-minded town. I don't really understand it, but I do love it here and I love my car and driving really fast."

• She gets up to 120mph on the freeway in her BMW M5, and she admits to following ambulances, but she's never been ticketed for speeding. "I'm good friends with the police chief."

• Before going to bed she watches Cold Case Files or City Confidential and during the day, its Dr Phil. "I'm not kidding, I love some Dr Phil. He cracks me up."

• If she could make a perfect boyfriend in a laboratory she's whip up a mixture of Cary Grant, Robert Mitchwm and Napoleon, the latter of whom she was obsessed with while growing up.

• Has never smoked a cigarette, has taken one puff of marijuana, didn't get high, and, no matter what she told The Face magazine in 1998, she has never tripped on acid. "That's a myth", she says now.

• When she's very sad she likes to play Pat Benatar's cover of Kate Bush's song Wuthering heights. Repeatedly: The Journey over and over.

• Loves Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind (the book) and identifies with Scarlett.

• Reads Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead annually.

• Is into circles and the number 5. She likes the curves of it and she was born on September 5. When she was five, she says, "My dad made this big headdress with the number five on it. We lived in Italy and I led this little bunch of kids on this procession up these rocky hills and unpaved roads. Everyone was singing. My hair was still blonde and cute. It was idyllic."

• Loathes Oregon, particularly the little town of Noti.

• Is close to her family these days and her siblings are all extremely accomplished (an aeronautical engineer, a biochemical engineer, a fighter pilot, an artist...). "It was sink or swim for us," she explains. When comparing herself to her siblings, she says she calls herself the dumb actress. "That's the hardest thing to deal with, that I do nothing that uses my brain."

• The day she arrived in Los Angeles, at age 19, she learned that her boyfriend, who had just moved there, had been murdered.

• Was very close to Johnny Ramone, who died of cancer in 2004. "He's one of the loves of my life."

• Her favorite website is cuteoverload.com.

• Used to always carry a polaroid camera with her but eventually got bored with it and moved on.

• Once jumped out of a cake on Marilyn Manson's birthday.