According to the Los Angeles County Coroner's report Stefanie Sherk's death was listed as a "suicide," caused as a "result of the effect of lack of oxygen, mainly on the brain, produced by a purposeful drowning episode." The report revealed that Sherk was found at the bottom of her swimming pool with "a backpack strapped to her back filled with dumbbells and weights attached to her ankles."
A graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City.
She graduated from The University of Western Ontario with an Honors BA in History and spent her third year on exchange at The University of London, UK.
Pursued her Masters degree in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Despite being a Jungian, she had a colossal crush on her 80 year old Freud professor Christine Downing.