Christine Quinn "grew up real quick" when she was sent to an "alternative school"

She said: "She sent me to an alternative school. And that was, you know, an eye-opener.

"I went to school with people that were members of gangs, with girls that were being trafficked. With girls that were prostitutes, and I would see their pimps pick them up after school. Girls that were pregnant.

"[Kids who were] in and out of jail, problems with drugs. And I learnt to grow up really quick."

Christine herself was arrested on her 17th birthday for marijuana possession and her parents refused to bail her out in order to "teach [her] a lesson".

She recalled to the Sunday Times Style magazine: “At my birthday someone gave me a little marijuana. My parents taught me a lesson. They left me in jail for four days.

“The food was horrible, and everyone was in there for things like prostitution, and I was just, like, I’m here for friggin’ weed.”

When she got home, the 33-year-old star - who has six-month-old son Christian Jr. with husband Christian Richard - moved out and enrolled in acting classes, where she had her Texan accent "beaten" out of her.

However, she noted: “Sometimes when I drink it can come out.”