She later said that Jesus Christ appeared to her at that time and offered her a second chance at life if she abandoned her Vanity persona. In 1994, that addiction led to near-fatal renal failure.
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As she cycled through rocker boyfriends (Billy Idol, Adam Ant and Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx, among them), she developed a dangerous addiction to crack cocaine. Matthews’ reputation as a hard partier in those early years of fame was both widely known and well-founded. “She was pretty wild,” Stamos recently told THRabout his co-star. “She was like Al Pacino in Scarface, blasting these f- ing machine guns all over the place. Vanity was born Denise Katherine Matthews in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, the daughter of Helga Senyk and James Levia Matthews. Vanity was a glamorous Canadian model and lead singer of the all-girl group Vanity 6. Vanity, whose real name was Denise Katrina Matthews. She specialized in playing sultry female characters often in trouble with the law. Vanity, lead singer of the '80s girl group Vanity 6, has died after years of battling kidney failure and, more recently, an abdominal illness. The following year, she was cast opposite John Stamos in Never Too Young to Die, a disastrous send-up of James Bond movies that featured KISS’ Gene Simmons as a cross-dressing villain. Vanity was a glamorous Canadian model and lead singer of the all-girl group 'Vanity 6'. She also embarked on an acting career, starring in the Berry Gordy-produced musical martial-arts film The Last Dragon in 1985.
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Matthews disbanded Vanity 6 after the group’s debut release and signed with Motown Records in 1984, under which she released two solo records, Wild Animal and Skin on Skin. It has since gone on to become a dance-floor classic. The biggest by far was 1982’s “Nasty Girl.” An infectious synth-funk single with overtly sexual lyrics, the song stalled on mainstream radio but managed to reach No.
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