Wilsey did not die immediately she died hours later in the hospital, after her father decided to shut down her life support systems once it became obvious that she would not survive her injury. It was Pera who later discovered Wilsey in the garage of Wilsey's home. Upset over the accident, she went home to Universal City, asked a friend to walk her dog, and then called her manager, Nancy Pera. On the evening of July 11, Wilsey was involved in an auto accident with her Corvette in which she reportedly broke her nose and injured her face. Wilsey died by suicide in 1994 by shooting herself after a car accident. Savannah also had relationships with singer Billy Idol, Mötley Crüe member Vince Neil, Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth, bassist Billy Sheehan who was in Roth's solo band, comedian Pauly Shore, guitarist Slash, and actor Mark Wahlberg, According to an interview with Adult Video News, Wilsey stated: "I love sex and I love sex with rockers more than anything else." Death But I feel I left her behind when she needed me most. Between Sikki Nixx and Savannah pushing and pulling, I pretty much at one point ran away from them both. At that time I was having a lot of problems myself. In a 1999 interview, following the airing of the E! True Hollywood Story about Wilsey's life and death, Fine commented: "We had an ongoing, on-again, off-again, volatile, loving relationship. Wilsey became involved in a long-term relationship with fellow pornographic actress Jeanna Fine, with whom she later claimed to have fallen deeply in love. She later stated that she used to watch porn videos with her boyfriend on his tour bus (presumably referring to Gregg Allman). In a video interview for Vivid, Wilsey stated that the first time she saw "erotic material" was when she was "snooping through her parents' things" and found some magazines when she was 11 years old. She appeared as Santana on Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater when the show aired Sorority House Massacre II (October 1994). Even after her death, Wilsey continued to appear via archival footage. She also had a credit for her performance on a soundtrack in the video The Spectacle (1991). These roles included The Invisible Maniac (1990) and Camp Fear (1991). Wilsey also appeared in a variety of minor roles in B movies (mostly comedy, horror and/or sci-fi) in which she was credited with her real name. She ended her career by mainly freelancing for lower budget porn companies by capitalizing on her still big but clearly fading name in the industry. These antics eventually led to Vivid severing its association with her in 1993. She also garnered a reputation for arriving late to film shoots, being temperamental and acting like a diva, and sometimes getting drunk or abusing drugs on the said sets of the film/video shoots. Wilsey began using drugs and spending large amounts of money, and she reportedly had severe financial troubles despite her substantial income. She started out at first in photo spreads for Cheri, Hustler, Swank, and Penthouse, and then she signed an exclusive contract with Vivid Entertainment in 1991 and became one of the earliest Vivid Girls. Wilsey was introduced to the adult film industry by actor and director Rex Cabo.