Complex sentence: Her father, John Sarkisian, was an Armenian-American truck driver with drug and gambling problems, and her mother, Jackie Jean Crouch, was an occasional model and bit-part actress with Irish, English, German and Cherokee ancestry.
Split into simpler sentences: Her father, John Sarkisian, was an Armenian-American truck driver with drug and gambling problems. Her mother, Jackie Jean Crouch, was an occasional model and bit-part actress with Irish, English, German and Cherokee ancestry.