Ashley Dupré, the former escort involved in the scandal surrounding New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, says that she's made many mistakes, and that many other young women could have ended up in a similar situation.

"You don't mean to make those choices, but you're put in a situation and, you know, you have an opportunity to do it," she told ABC News' Diane Sawyer.

Dupré's father left when she was small, and her mother remarried an oral surgeon. When she was 12, her 17-year-old brother ran away and got arrested for dealing drugs.

Dupré said she felt lost at that point, and that, as a teenager, she was confused about her relationship with men.

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