On the previous episode of my interview with Sue Nero,

I was a happy tomboy of a kid, and I was awkward too from 13 on.

I was so ugly.

People made fun of me, and they called me jugs and, you know, all those things.

People clipped. fun of me and they called me jugs and, you know, all those things. My father pleaded with me to stay out of trouble because he had his own troubles with my mother and with his business.

And he said he couldn't handle dealing with my problems too.

She's a lot. couldn't handle dealing with my problems too. I started dating this boy from my town who was five years older than me. He was 21 and I was 16.

They hated it because he was too old for me and then shortly after that I got pregnant.

Yeah. because he was too old for me and then shortly after that I got pregnant. For many years I blamed myself for my father leaving

because his little girl was a bad girl and I got in trouble.

Then my father was gone and once my father was gone my life changed.

In the night my father was gone and once my father was gone my life changed. My mother wanted me to go into the Lancaster House of Correction for Girls.

She didn't want me anymore.

The senior high school, I was the hostess in a dinner theater in my town, Chateau Deville Dinner Theater.

This is the first time I ever saw, Anne Corrie, that was burlesque.

At night, I would go to this lesbian bar in the city. I figured I was a lesbian, so I should just pursue this life.

A guy had followed me home, and he pushed his way in the door when I was coming in and he forced himself on me

and it went on for hours but he tied me up and I was fucking scared so my father said I'm

gonna send you an airline ticket to San Francisco go and start a new life.

I was working on North Beach and what they called at the time Encounter Studios.

The Encounter Studios were a guy thought he was going in to have sex with the girls

that would call them and beckon them to come in wearing a leotard or a sexy

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