I dont know much about my parents, but my mom was a courtesan and dancer - like i am now - and my dad is unknown. My mother got told to get rid of me, but she still tried to raise me, but she was also very sick and had to do her job. I often was alone as a little child, but i always had to dream to be an actress someday. Anyway when i was around 10 my mothers got worse, she finally died and i was alone, i had nowhere to go.
Harold, the man my mother had worked for, helped me. I was pretty tho and was a quiet good singer and dancer, so he just raised me to a beautiful young woman. He was like a father for me. When i truned 15 he opened the Moulin Rouge, it was a night club kinda. With lot of other courtesans and many dancers. He arranged it that his best dancers taught me all they knew and the lovely courtesans showed me the way to seduce men. I learned quickly and became one of his Can-Can girls and a courtesan, coz i never knew another life i didnt think that that was some kinda unusual for a girl with only 15 years.
At first i was one of the twenty can-cangirls, but i wanted be become more then only a face in the crowed. So one day i finally got the guts to ask Harold to let me perform a number on my own and i convinced him that it would be the best for me. So he allowed it and shortly after that talk i started to rehears and gave my debut on my 16th birthday. I quickly became the star of the Moulin Rouge and known as the Sparkling Diamond.
Then i met Christian, a peniless writer, but at that time i though he would be a duke, anyway i fall for him. But the duke got
very jeaulous and i had to make Christian believe i dont love him, which wasnt true at all. Anyway the duke paid the rebuilding of the Moulin Rouge into a
theater and on opening night Christian came on stage when i was performing and threw money at my face saying:"This woman is yours. I paid my whore."
Then he said to me:" I owe you nothing! And you are nothing to me!" Which hurted me very deeply inside. And the duke had paid a man to kill Christian
while he was on stage with me. Anyway Christian walked away and i though i had lost him forever but then i just let my heart speak and sang the song Christian
wrote for us.
For a moment I had no clue if he even listened, but then I sand: "I love you until my dying day" and it was like i really felt. Then he turned and
sang his part and made me the happiest person on earth!
I had consumption for a month now, but was able to hide it from Christian. However i performed till the end of the show and then
he kissed me and i broke down in his arms. It hurted me much more to see Christian in such great fear about me then my body hurted. I though i was going to die
and i almost did, i though that was the last time i would ever see Christian, but thank god i was wrong.
About a month later i woke up in a dirty hospital bed, but i was alife, but i was alone. They gave up on me, Harold did, Christian did and the damn Duke never even visited me. I still dreamed of being an actress and i train hard and no matter what i will be an actress one day and i will find Christian.
One month after i woke up i had my first performance on stage. It was in a cheap night club, not even half as big as the Moulin Rouge but i had to get money, so i took it. I had to sing my former famous The sparkling diamond number but the audience hated it. It wasnt good enough for a few drunken. I fought a few tears as i almost got hit by a beer bottle, that wasnt the life i wanted to live. I had no success, no love and nobody to talk to. The only thing i had was my dream to become an famous actress like my big idol Sarah Bernhardt and to find Christian to live my whole life with him. I quiet the job and went back to the place where i remembered the Moulin Rouge. It was still there, but it was kind of different. It looked cheap, not as glamours as I remembered it. I went in, it was night, usually the time the club/theater was full, but now only a few men sat there and watched a show of some of my friends. I couldnt believe what i saw when i went backstage. A drunken Marie and a frustrated Harold looking at bills.After a big welcome to me they told me that without me, the sparkling diamond, almost nobody was interested in the Moulin Rouge and if wouldnt find a new attraction to replace me he would have to shut the Moulin Rouge down. I almost fainted, i was shocked even if i was disappointed ´cause nobody visited me at the hospital i offered my help. We created a whole new show for me and i performed at the Moulin Rouge again. I taught another dancer all i knew ´cause i knew i had to find Christian and it wasnt my destiny to spent my whole life at the Moulin Rouge seducing strangers and performing in short skirts and stuff.
