NEW YORK - For the first time since she was outed as a high-end prostitute who helped bring down New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (web|news|bio), Ashley Dupre is breaking her silence in a prime-time TV interview.

Dupre sat down with ABC News' Diane Sawyer to talk about her life and the scandal that enveloped her in a 20/20 interview airing Friday at 10 p.m. on ABC 7 and Saturday at 8 p.m. on NewsChannel 8.

In a preview of the special, Dupre, a New York City resident, revealed she didn't even know who her famous client was until the scandal broke.

"I turned on the TV and I said, 'Oh, [expletive deleted], what did I get myself involved in?'" she recalled. "And I was ... I felt like everything slowed down around me. And it was just the TV and I and ... I was shocked.

"That's when I found out what I was involved in. I didn't ... I didn't know the depth to ... to my situation."

"Hadn't seen him in the paper?" Sawyer inquired.

"No," Dupre replied. "He looked familiar. But I was 22 years old, I didn't ... I wasn't ... reading the papers, I was so involved in my life and I was so selfish and  ... um, and caught up in my life and I didn't know who he was. And I was whoever they wanted me to be, and he was whoever he wanted to be."

Dupre said she watched the news conference when Gov. Spitzer appeared with his wife to announce his resignation. She said she focused on Silda Spitzer's face.

"I felt connected to her. I didn't feel connected to him. Um, her pain. And I just saw the pain in her eyes," she recalled.

Dupre, then 22 years old, said her first call was to her mother after the scandal broke.

"What'd you say to her?" Sawyer asked.

"'Are you sitting down?' Um... sh- ... she was upset, shocked. I mean, like any mother would be if they heard the news that ... that I delivered to her."

Dupre said her mother had no idea what she did for a living.

She also called her biological father: "Hey, daddy, I'm in trouble. Um, I don't know ... how big, but I know that I'm in trouble."

But talking to her stepfather was the most traumatic:

"[H]e was so disgusted with me," she recalled. "When everything happened. And, uh, now it's ... it's getting better. And we're working on our relationship. But he's been there and he's, he's supporting me. The best way that he can, you know. Everyone deals with pain and anger in a different way.

"I can't be angry at him that he can't, like, come and see me and ... and you know, hug me and it's gonna be okay. He couldn't do that in the beginning. But now he has been. Little steps."

Dupre also revealed she had only returned to the Emerald Club escort service four weeks before her appointment with Spitzer. She'd taken a six month break from the business and found that going back was harder than she'd expected.

She read excerpts from her journal, recounting that time in her life:

"Today was my first night back at the agency. It was really difficult for me . I don't remember it being this hard. It used to be easy for me. I never really thought about what it was I was doing."

In the 20/20 interview, Dupre talks more about her life as an escort and the escort trade, including a conversation about what she considers the difference between an escort and a prostitute.

"What's the difference?" asked Sawyer.

"I think it's ... it's, um, the same. Perhaps."

As for her future plans, Dupre says she wants to begin a new chapter in her life, including a career in music.

Diane Sawyer's 20/20 interview airs Friday at 10 p.m. on ABC 7 and Saturday at 8 p.m. on NewsChannel 8.