Cheryl Cusella - Stevie's daughter?
 

I found the strangest thing about Stevie on a website, and really don't believe it. Have any of you ever heard of Cheryl Cusella? Apparently she was a Stevie impersonator who looks just like her, and someone on THIS website claims she is her biological daughter:
Who is this supposed expert and does she have any credibility? Does anyone have pictures of Cheryl? I don't think the "evidence" presented is very convincing. However, I find it interesting that there was an impersonator that looked so much like her, was well-known, and was even befriended by the family?? I was unable to find any pictures, other than on this site:
http://cherylcusella.com/
She has written a book, mostly about her claimed conversion to Christianity, and makes claims about her connection to the Nicks family here, but she is a con artist with a shady past:
http://cherylcusella.com/faq.html
Just wondering what all of you think of this and if you have any pics. I even found something about her on The Ledge when I did a search:
http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=21436

She doesn't claim that on her website from what I recall reading.

Who doesn't claim it? Cheryl? No, she doesn't, but she is not the one I was referring to. The quote is from another website, by someone who is described as an expert.

Well then please go discuss it on that other site. Here, we don't want garbage like this discussed. No offense to you though, just the subject.

i have the book sold thru rolling stone that this chick wrote about being a stevie impersonator & no she isn't stevie's daughter, but a rather shady character~

What gives you the right to decide what should be posted here? If the OP wants to post something that is Stevie related to bring it to light, especially to members who may not be aware of this con artist, then the OP has every right to do so. If you don't like this subject, then don't read the thread.

This band is not about facts ... it's about Rumours ...
And that's what that sounds like.

she does bear a resemblance....
u know who i always thought looked a bit like stevie? lucy walsh. first i saw her & had that feeling, THEN found out who her dad is. of course, im not claiming anything ;)

She looks like Stevie and Joni Mitchell's lovechild. It's really uncanny.

I was just about to say the same thing!

Blimey... she does look like her!

Isn't it ironic.

Cheryl Cusella is beautiful & has great bones, but she is a charlatan & a bunco artist.

Dude, who's we? This is the Stevie forum, and this person posted info about Stevie. :shrug: What's the problem.

I personally think this is a load of ****. I think it's more probable that Christopher knocked some girl up & this chick is HIS kid. :cool:

I heard Chris Nicks separated from Lori Nicks. She & daughter moved out & they are heading to divorce court.

who peed in your weaties? & who made you form god?~

Interesting. I've never heard about this woman or the claim that she is Stevie's daughter. Obviously she isn't, but she really does look like Stevie. I wonder if they're any pics of her from when she was younger.

A little bit like Stevie
 

Yeah, she looks like Stevie. But I don't think that it's her daughter...Stevie was oly 16 when she was born.

I seriously doubt Stevie's daughter would be a Stevie Nicks impersonator...

I believe I was Cheryl's (Cusella) first date. It was a double date (thank god) so it was not like we saw each other much before the date. She just wanted to be with her best friend Melinda, and my friend need someone with a car. I don't remember much about the date.....but probably a disco for the 18 and under crowd...Mabel Murphy's-on a sunday night....maybe?

There was not a lot to Cheryl back in early 1979...very shy (at least around guys), but she was very attractive.

Her mom worked many years as a waitress at Coco's in Scottsdale's fashion square area. She seemed to be the bread winner of the family, making life for young Cheryl, Theresa, and Nino a challenge early on . I remember even back then the rumor that Cheryl was related to Stevie Nicks, but at the time, I really did not put much thought into it.

I remember meeting Cheryl's stepdad (Theresa's dad), and at the time got the impression he was a Vietnam veteran with a lot of personal issues, but then it might have been me getting the once over by a weary stepdad :eek:

Fast forward to June 1986, I remember hearing Cheryl was going to the Stevie Nicks concert at Compton Terrace. Limo/Backstage...I believe her and Stevie met for the first time that evening. If you ask me, this is where she met the people who steered her in the wrong direction, and took advantage of her connection to concert world. Before she knew it, she was beyond the point of know return, and people got hurt.

The last I had contact with the Cesella's was in 1989, when I move to California.

C

I don't see the resemblence, personally :shrug:

Cheryl has a ton of videos on you tube. She actually is a good impersonator (lip synchs) except she walks around with the mic instead of keeping it on the stand.

Sacrilege :mad: :p

Maybe a long lost sister? :lol: In that one photo though there is quite a resemblance.

I actually have a copy of Cheryl's autobio 'Sweet Poison' - written in about 1990, and advertised as a full pager in 'US Magazine' as a 'best seller' :lol:

Incidentally, the book's about her life as a Stevie impersonator, and how she ended up in jail for supposedly cheating people who gave her $$ to promote concerts.

Anyways, in the book Cheryl mentions her own family members, and not once made any reference to being Stevie's 'daughter'. Her only ties to the Nickses was that she became good friends with Stevie's mother Barbara for awhile.

Cheryl Cusella being Stevie's daughter (which is new to me) is just a ridiculous rumour. :rolleyes:

Anyone else think this thread is hilarious? I don't see the resemblance and even if this woman was a carbon copy of Stevie, I still would laugh at the idea of Stevie having a secret daughter.

I'm prepared for the stoning, but...I agree with Viv's post :shrug:

This topic should appear in the Enquirer, not a fan forum.

This thread leaves me basically speechless. WTF? Why would a 16 year old Stevie have a child and would never even mention her daughter while the adult Stevie had abortions and talked about it, heck even wrote several songs about it?

How in the world could Stevie have a child that has not been brought up by herself or her parents? And why would her secret daughter chose to be an impersonator when she could sell her story to the tabloids and start a career on her own, no matter how talented or not?

And why am I writing about it at all?

This is ridiculous. :)

It really isn't that far-fetched. While I personally doubt this woman has any connection to Stevie, 16 year olds were commonly sequestered to have secret babies back in the time that Cheryl was born - to preserve the honor of the family. It still happens today. :shrug:

For my dear life I cannot see that happen in the Nicks family. her parents basically allowed their underage daughter to move in (is that shackin up? :)) with an unemployed hippie with a guitar fixation, to drop out of university and to start a music career in freakin' San Francisco in 1968. Go and find more liberal parents.

Plus - the family frequently moved due to her fathers business anyway, in their case there was not much honor to preserve from the neighborhood and it would have been easy to just move once more.

Stevie does not have a secret daughter. End of discussion. Perhaps end of thread.

How do you know, though?

For real! Stuff like that happens ALL the time... not that I think Cheryl Cusella is her daughter, but Stevie certainly wouldn't be the first woman in the world to have a child out of wedlock, in her teens, and the parents insist she give it up for adoption in order not to cause embarrassment to the family for not being married - especially back in the day...

By the way, here is what Cheryl said about how she came to know the Nicks family:


"One of my backup singers invited me to a concert with some of the staff from a local radio station. While I was relaxing in the station’s RV, a Nicks’ song came on the radio. While singing along, I suddenly heard a commotion outside. A large crowd had gathered around a metal fence outside where the RV was parked, and people were shouting excitedly that Stevie Nicks was in the motor home.

As the crowd grew more frenzied, I became fearful and locked myself in the bathroom. A half-hour later one of the staff from the radio station showed up to rescue me. He was accompanied by Mary Lou and Gene Nicks, Stevie Nicks’ aunt and uncle, who owned the concert facility with Stevie’s father, Jess Nicks.

In my book, Looking for Love, I tell what it was like to develop meaningful relationships with members of the Nicks family."

this just sounds like those other rumours on those imitators!

lindsay lohan...NOW THAT MAY B STEVIE'S DAUGHTER!!! OMG!! i am just kidding....its as rediculous as that cheryl wakjob being her daughter...or sister...or watever anyone thinks she may b to stevie....she is a weirdo gone born again...PAAALEEEESE...so hasnt half the wakjobs of our society..i could b stevie's son..my eyes r brown...i like tom petty...i love boots...WORKBOOTS....i sing along to her music in the car...i hold my nose..i sound just like her...haahahaaa..all in fun...please dont chastize me....we all part of her dysfunctional family...."lets hug it out.." ..ari gold from entourage

Sure, I don't believe at all that she's Stevie's daughter. And I don't at all believe that she's "wacko." I just think it's funny that some people are so quick to dismiss the *possibility* when we, as fans, have no way of knowing whether or not it's true. Is it likely that Cheryl is Stevie's daughter? Not at all. Is it possible? Sure, anything like that is technically possible. Some people think it's perfectly normal to speculate that Stevie and Lindsey still have a romance every time FM goes back on tour...but the second that something less than flattering emerges as a rumor, it is immediately shot down as being not at all a possibility.

I'll repeat again...no, I do not believe at all the there is any blood connection between Stevie and Cheryl.

I think I have some of her performances on VHS somewhere. Maybe. She lip-synched, right? Barbara McLuin actually sings with her own voice, and I have lots of video of her singing and performing as Stevie.

CC, though, used to be very famous in Stevie fandom, I think, but I can't picture her performances.

I agree, wholeheartedly.

I've watched Cheryl's interview video on youtube with Sally Jessy Raphael .She does look like Stevie and cute.