DeCoutere grew up as the youngest child of four of
British and
Czech parents. She attended
grad school at
Concordia University in
Montreal and has held various jobs, including a
kindergarten teacher in
South Korea, and attended teachers college at
Griffith University in
Australia. On April 2, 2016, DeCoutere announced via
Twitter that she was resigning from Trailer Park Boys after actor and co-star
Mike Smith was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor domestic battery. Also on April 2, 2016, it was revealed by the Trailer Park Boys' publicist, Sheila Roberts, that DeCoutere had informed the show's producers a few weeks before Smith's arrest that she would not be returning for the show's next season. Statements released from the Trailer Park Boys production team indicated that the incident was misreported and that the call to the police was made by persons who had not witnessed the event. The woman was described by Smith as a friend, and she issued a statement that "at no time did [she] feel in danger" and that the incident was "perceived as something other than what it was." The charges against Smith were dropped due to a lack of evidence. ==Jian Ghomeshi==