- Charla has 2 tattoos. One on her right wrist and consists of the word "Breathe" with a hummingbird. She got it in 2015 along with her husband, who got the same thing. The second is a delicate butterfly above her inner left ankle, a memorial to her daughter, Cassidy.
- Charla is a published author with a new memoir. My New Normal: A Mother's Story of Love and Loss in the Opioid Epidemic. Published in November 11. 2019, exactly three years after her daughter died from a drug overdose.
- Charla lost her only child, 22 year old daughter Cassidy Aspen Cochran on Nov. 11, 2016 to a fentanyl overdose. Charla has become an advocate in sharing her story to stop the stigma in hopes of helping to change the way society looks at Substance Use Disorder.
- Charla Bocchicchio is married to an Italian descendant.
- Charla became a widow on May 19, 2023, when her beloved husband, John Bocchicchio took his own life after battling chronic pain and a multitude of medical issues for years and years. She is shattered with this loss as John was the greatest love of her life.
- Charla received a cancer diagnosis in February of 2024. She has IgA Kappa high-risk Multiple Myeloma, which is a rare and incurable blood cancer that starts in plasma cells in the bone marrow. She has been asymptomatic so far and still continues to act and teach. Charla started cancer treatment in March 2024.
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