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I was a good liar as a child.

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'

Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.

So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.

From a child, I knew I didn't have the face I wanted to have. My mother was a baroness. She was from Berlin; she was a silent movie actress and friends with Marlene Dietrich. So she knew all about film make-up and prosthetics and stuff like that and what they used to do in those days. And she taught me all that as a child.

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.