I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.

In the early 1980s Bai Ling's parents divorced and later remarried. Personal life
On February 14 2008 Bai Ling was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport for shoplifting two magazines and a package of batteries.

In 2011 Bai Ling appeared in the fifth season of the VH1 reality television series Celebrity Rehab with Dr. She speaks both English and Mandarin fluently. Drew which documented her recovery from alcohol addiction.