Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.

Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes.

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.

Any woman who marries an Italian must accept the undeniable fact that she has also married his mother.

If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.