 In 1903, she was hospitalized with a "a severe nervous malady", attributed to marital difficulties, after rumors of his gambling debts and her affair with actor Harry Walden.During World War I, she volunteered as a nurse and gave benefit appearances for war relief causes, but was barred from the stage in Hanau because she was an Italian citizen by marriage.Meanwhile, her son in the United States was considered a security threat because of his German birth, and held in an internment camp in Georgia, until his wealthy American in-laws argued for his release.