She was very close to actor Jim Davis, who played her father-in-law Jock Ewing on Dallas (1978). She reminded him of his only child Tara, who died in a car crash when she was only 17 years old in 1970. She read one of his eulogies when he died in 1981. She hadn't known until later that Davis carried a picture of Tara and of Victoria in his wallet when he died.