She was a friend of Spanish war correspondent Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora, with whom she went to Srebrenica right after the 1995 massacre there. Miguel Gil Moreno was later shot to death in the Sierra Leone Civil War. During her service in the Second Liberian Civil War, she became a friend of the war correspondents Tim Hetherington from England and Chris Hondros from the U.S., who were killed in the 2011 Libyan Civil War.