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On December 18, 2000, she and her children were scuba diving off the coast of Cozumel, Mexico. They had just surfaced when she saw a speedboat heading directly for them (the area was reserved for divers and the boat should not have been there). She pushed her children out of the way, but she was struck by the boat and died instantly.

She had an older brother, Hamish MacColl, and three younger half-siblings: Neil MacColl, Calum and Kitty.

She had two sons with her ex-husband, Steve: Jamie and Louis Lillywhite.

She was a daughter of Ewan MacColl and Jean MacColl.

Tracey Ullman covered her song "They Don't Know" in 1983 and had a top 10 hit with it in Britain and America; the "Baby!" at the end of the instrumental break is actually MacColl's vocal, sampled from the original, because Ullman couldn't hit a note that high.