Ashley Alexandra Dupre

"I just don't want to be thought of as a monster...this has been a very difficult time. It is complicated."
- Ashley speaking with The New York Times

"My path has not been easy. When I was 17, I left home. It was my decision and I’ve never looked back. 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."
- Ashley on her MySpace page

"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."
- Ashley on her MySpace page

"I thought she always had a good personality, and she was a gorgeous, gorgeous girl. She was definitely flirty.  We all can't believe it down here that someone from here brought down the governor of New York."
- Former High School Classmate Chris Minardi, 23 (People)

"She never dated anyone in our school.  She was never slutty. She would date older guys, but it wasn't like she was running around sleeping with everyone."
- A 22-year-old woman only identifying herself as Stephanie (New York Post)

"I support her 100 percent."
- Ashley's Brother (Daily News)