Perrette married Canadian actor and musician
Coyote Shivers in 2000; the couple separated four years later, with their divorce becoming final in 2006. She was granted restraining orders against him, alleging that he subjected her to physical, emotional, and sexual abuse during and after their marriage. Perrette worked with ''
America's Most Wanted'' in February 2004 to present the city of
Prattville, Alabama, with a check for $10,000, to be used to supplement the reward offer for information leading to the arrest of the person who killed Shannon Paulk. Paulk was from Prattville, near where Perrette had once lived as a child. Perrette also donated $10,000 to
Detroit law enforcement officials in 2007 to be used as a reward for information regarding the disappearance/murder of Raven Jeffries, a seven-year-old Detroit girl. (Perrette's then-partner was from Detroit.) The story originally aired on ''America's Most Wanted
on September 8, 2007, on Fox. She also asked them for help in finding the person(s) who killed her friend Lisa Williamson, who was murdered in 2007 after her Detroit home was set on fire. In 2009, Perrette worked with America's Most Wanted'' on
the case of Tammy Vincent. Perrette supports many charitable organizations, including
animal rescue organizations, the
American Red Cross, civil rights organizations, and
LGBT rights organizations. Perrette opposed the
California ballot initiative
Proposition 8 in 2008, writing a public letter in the fall of that year urging votes against the measure. She is a member of the
Hollywood United Methodist Church. She dated cameraman Michael Bosman for four years before their engagement; however, the two did not marry, saying they would wait until everyone can get married in the United States. They instead filed for all the legal protections that are available to same-sex couples. Bosman did not propose until the legalization of same-sex marriage in California in June 2008. The couple campaigned very publicly against Proposition 8. Perrette and Bosman split, and in December 2011 she announced her engagement to former British
Royal Marine Thomas Arklie. She had again announced that the couple would not marry until Proposition 8 is invalidated. Perrette, who is a natural blonde, was hospitalized in 2014 after "a severe
allergic reaction to her [character's] trademark ink-black [hair] color." She told
CBS News in Los Angeles that her face had swollen to twice its size and warned that "anyone out there [who] dyes their hair, particularly black, you need to be aware of the symptoms." On November 12, 2015, Perrette was assaulted by a homeless man outside her Hollywood Hills home. Los Angeles Police arrested and charged the suspect with felony battery. Perrette later told
Entertainment Tonight that she does not blame her attacker nor does she hold ill will against him. Perrette co-owned Donna Bell's Bake Shop, named for her mother, in
Manhattan, New York City. The shop closed in December 2020 after nearly 10 years of business. On June 7, 2019, Perrette said she left
NCIS due to an on-set dog-biting incident and alleged multiple physical assaults. She also stated that she was "terrified" of her former co-star
Mark Harmon. Perrette defended
NCIS costar
Michael Weatherly after he had been accused of sexual harassment by
Eliza Dushku. In September 2022, Perrette revealed that she had suffered a
stroke in September 2021. ==Filmography==