Shauna was a superstar because of her girl next door beauty, not cuz she set trends, and in her final moments she became what noone would have expected: the first of many porn stars to kill themselves. Her short lived, life of erotica came to an end on March 21, 1984, when she put a .22 rifle to her head and pulled the trigger. The goreous Shauna Grant, formerly known as Colleen Applegate, was dead at 20 years old. Shauna suicice sent shock throughut the industry at a time when it was already being scrutinized. A lot of people blamed the tragedy on the industry. Shauna's death was the effect of cocaine abuse, failed ralationships, and depression. Shauna Grant was born Colleen Applegate in Bellflower, California. When she was 9 her father got a job for the phone company, so they moved to Farmington, Minnesota, a small village of 3,500 that lies thirty miles south of Minneapolis. Very quickly she grew to hate the small town atmosphere, she had bigger dreams. She attended Farmington High School and got into Cheerleading, but her main click was her boyfriend Mike Marcell, and his partying friends. After graduating in 1981 she got a job working at her fathers phone copany, but thats not what fate had in store for Shauna. After a failed attemp at pverdosing on sinus pills her boyfriend packed up his El Camino and headed to Hollywood to make her a star. When they got to LA, they found that jobs were few and far between. After searching for a couple weeks she answered an ad for 'figure modeling'. Shauna definately had the body for it, so a photo shoot was set up. Even though she wasn't very comfortable taking her clothes off and posing for a stranger, she needed money at the same time, so she dealt with it.