Personal Life
Vachon also put out a couple of singles in French, which were hits in Canada.
In 1978, she married wrestler Buddy Wolfe, but due to the stress of their careers the relationship failed. In November 1979, she married Canadian career soldier Gary Carnegie and they had two children: Ian (born February 5, 1980) and Julie Lynn (born 1982). They lived in CFB Petawawa Ontario. Vivian and Gary were married for seven years and after five years, they divorced in 1991. Vivian and their nine-year-old daughter Julie were killed by a drunk driver 50k's south from Montreal on August 25, 1991. Ian is part of the Ottawa High Hookers arm wrestling club and was also in the Canadian army. After Gary and Vivian's divorce, she lived in London, Ontario. Vivian and Julie are buried in a small town called Mansonville near the Newport, Vermont border.
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