At 10 years old, she was diagnosed with Tourette syndrome, and has spent the rest of her life trying to hide the verbal and facial tics she has every day. For years, Westmore kept her Tourette's under wraps. But she changed her mind after working on the short film Goodbye Dessa, created by a close friend for the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge and confirmed she had Tourette's when she was nearly 42. Tourette's is incurable, and at that point the only treatment was doses of lithium.