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I’m a hairdresser by day, Marilyn by night and sometimes the other way around. I perform at all kinds of special events and do live shows in casinos, dinner theaters and things of that sort. I think people fell in love with Marilyn because there was something about her that was just very relatable, unlike many other movie stars that were as famous in that era. The others were very much larger than life, ultra-glamorous and they withheld their real selves from the public, whereas Marilyn opened herself up and wore her heart on her sleeve. People saw the real person she was, and because she allowed herself to be vulnerable, people connected with her.

I first fell in love with Marilyn when I was about 16 years old. I saw a TV film about her life and I was just completely devastated at the end when she died. I hadn’t known that she had died, let alone committed suicide, as they said in the documentary. The film did a really good job of showing who she was, and I was pretty much hooked after that; I’d read any book I could find about her. But I didn’t start watching her films until I was about 19.

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