 From 24 October 2006, weekly magazine "New Idea" featured articles on Byrne's autobiography, "Not Quite Ripe", which alleged that from the age of 12 she was introduced to sex, drugs and alcohol on "Young Talent Time".The claims were vigorously denied by Young, he stated that Byrne was already 14 when she started and that drugs were not available on set, "Any drug-taking Debra did, she certainly didn't do it on our show.