Cracknell shared memories of her father, Derek, who served as Stanley Kubrick's first assistant on 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange. He died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 54, just as she joined Saint Etienne. Her mother, Julie, was an actress who met Derek on the set of the film The Long Ships in Yugoslavia when she was 16 and he was 25. Cracknell recalled that everyone thought her father was gay, and that her mother gave him an ultimatum after discovering he was engaged.
Reflecting on her own romantic history, Cracknell described her first kiss at about age seven on a school bus, and the heartbreak when the boy ripped up her Valentine's card in front of the class. She noted that fame changed her outlook on love, saying, "People come at you from all over."
The interview also touched on her paternal grandfather, Clarence Cracknell, whom she never met and described as "a bit of a scoundrel," and her maternal grandfather, Edgar Samuel, a heavy smoker and barfly who lived into his 70s.