Former Eliot Spitzer escort Ashley Alexandra Dupre has her own view of the story that brought down the former New York Gov. and therefore asked the world to get to know her before anyone comes to any conclusion. She says she didn't know the "polite," no-nonsense man she had sex with on Feb. 13 at a Washington, D.C., hotel was the governor of New York until she saw Spitzer apologizing on television for his lapse. "It was surreal," Dupre says. "I felt like I was sinking."

Her confession of the story can be read in an interview with People magazine in the issue that comes out Friday. Ashley Alexandra Dupre tells People magazine that the FBI informed her early in March, 2008 that it was investigating one of her clients. She learned a few days later on March 12th; she learned which client it was. Dupre told People it was her own mother, Carolyn, who alerted her that Spitzer was announcing his resignation, and then that she realized the man who had paid her for sex was the governor of New York.

In March, the media discovered Dupre was "Kristen," her alias at the Emperor's Club V.I.P., the high-end escort service that had arranged her rendezvous at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., with Spitzer. Soon after the story broke, Dupre sought refuge at her family's home in New Jersey.

Ashley Dupre doesn’t feel responsible for the downfall of former N.Y. governor Eliot Spitzer whatsoever. "If it wasn't me, it would have been someone else," she tells the network. "I was doing my job. I don't feel that I brought him down."

The 23-year-old woman who hopes to become singer one day is now again at the center of media attention, as the media is desperate to get her side of the story. In a recent interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC's "20/20," to air Friday night, Dupre sits down in an almost too conservative dress, and tells us all about it. She explained she worked for the Emperor's Club VIP when she met Spitzer in the month preceding his resignation. On "20/20" and other reports, she discussed what a "normal" person she is, despite the career she will be remembered for. "I really didn't see the difference between going on a date with someone in New York, taking you to dinner and expecting something in return," she tells 20/20. "I really thought it was more of a trade-off. He's expecting something in return when you date, whereas, you know, being an escort, it was a formal transaction."

However Dupre says she has undergone "intense" psychotherapy since the events that generated the national scandal. Dupre said she was stricken by the pained expression on the face of Silda Spitzer, as she stood by her husband at the news conference. Her message to Silda Wall Spitzer: "I am sorry for your pain."