At least, that's what we think happened. How else to explain the strange look she's been given for her 20/20 interview this Friday? She's like thiiiiis far way from looking like she's in a cult. Click through for details of the interview -- and an even weirder photo of Ashley Alexandra Dupré -- after the jump.
Whose idea at ABC was it to make her so unappealing? As Gawker points out today, this gal's best shot at being someone in the world depends on her being cute. And that look ain't cute. It's, like, we don't know. She looks like someone out of a Shirley Jackson short story.
Not that we need to see this or this or even this old chestnut, necessarily
... but you know. Middle ground!
Aaaaanywaaaaays, here's what she has to say for herself according to New York's Daily Intel, People Magazine, and the New York Post.
• She is capable of guilt: "I try not to revisit that place too often, but when I think about [Spitzer's first apologetic press conference] I think of [Silda's] face, her eyes, the hurt … I'm sorry for your pain."
• But not, like, an unhealthy amount of guilt: She told the magazine that if it hadn't been her in that Mayflower Hotel room, it would have been someone else.
• She's a pro: "This wasn't any different than going on a date with someone you barely knew and hooking up with them," she said. "I knew what my purpose was, they knew what their purpose was — there weren't any games."
• (And so is Spitzer, apparently): "Some guys, they want to have conversations and really get to know each other. With him, it clearly was not like that. It was more of a transaction. Strictly business."
• She is a big reader: Since her crazy public exposure, she's mostly just been working out and reading.
• Not so much of a TV watcher: She didn't know who Spitzer was when she met him as "Client No. 9." "I mean, ask a lot of 22 year olds," she said. "I was wrapped up in my family, my music. I knew the name, but the face … I'm not really a TV person."
• Being laid bare isn't something she always enjoys: On watching Spitzer's televised confession, she said: "It was surreal. I felt like I was suffocating."
• She has unique parental influences: She said her father, who took off when she was 3, called her after she hit the headlines to say, "Damn, girl. When you do it, you do it big!"
• She's lucky: She said most of her clients were "intelligent, handsome and successful."
Do you think Eliot Spitzer reads that and gets sad a little?