In April 2014, she and her husband, actor
Daniel Bernhardt, filed a $2 million lawsuit against the city of Santa Monica after she collided with another skater in January 2014 at ICE, a city-owned ice skating rink. According to Stothard, she and the couple's daughter were there attending another child's birthday party and that many skaters were children and teens who were "skating at an excessive rate of speed, which was faster than safe," according to the suit, and that employees saw this but did nothing. At one point, a boy collided with Stothard and she fell, dislocating her right ankle, breaking her leg, and causing her to have to use a wheelchair and to fear that her right foot would have to be amputated. She claimed that she suffered flashbacks, recurring nightmares, and loss of consortium.
