The call-girl who caused Spitzer’s fall wants the public to know that she is “not a monster,” but a simple girl, who passed through difficult times.

The young woman aged 22 is from New Jersey, and her real name is Ashley Alexandra Dupre, born Ashley Youmans. She is not accused of any crime following the sex scandal, but she insisted to change the public’s impression of her, telling the New York Times: “I just don't want to be thought of as a monster. This has been a very difficult time. It is complicated.”

From Ashley’s MySpace page, people ca find out that the girl has been “broke and homeless” since she left home at the age of 17, to pursue a career as a singer-songwriter in New York.

"It was my decision, and I've never looked back," she writes. "Left my hometown. Left a broken family. Left abuse... Left and learned what it was like to have everything, and lose it, again and again. Learned what it was like to wake up one day and have the people you care about most gone. I have been alone. I have abused drugs. I have been broke and homeless. But, I survived, on my own. I am here, in NY because of my music."

When the Spitzer scandal broke, Dupre’s family and friends were shocked to find out about her job as a call girl. But all of them support her.

Her brother, Kyle Youmans, refused to comment on the case, but told CNN Ashley was “the best sister you could have.”

"I'm sticking by my sister, doing everything so she'll be fine," Youmans said. "She'll make it through."

The two aspiring hip-hop artists that work with Dupre said they couldn’t get in touch with the girl since she was identified as “Kristen,” but they wanted to assure the media that they “got her back.”

The singers, Robert "Mysterious" Cummings and Freddie "Logan" Sagastume told Today that they considered Dupre a very nice and thoughtful girl, with a big heart. They said they had known her for three years but had never suspected she was involved in the call-girl business.

Image credit: MySpace.com