No one else knows the whole story. I was there. I lived through it.

Meaning of the quote

This quote means that only the person who experienced something can fully understand what really happened. The speaker, Christine Keeler, is saying that no one else knows the complete story because she was the one who actually lived through the events. She is the only one who can truly tell the whole tale since she was directly involved.

About Christine Keeler

Christine Keeler was an English model and showgirl who became embroiled in a political scandal known as the Profumo affair during the Cold War. Her affairs with a Cabinet minister and a Soviet naval attachu00e9 caused a major controversy and discredited the Conservative government of the time.

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More quotes from Christine Keeler

They wanted to hear about the sex, of course. But not the rest; no one wanted to hear the rest.

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942-2017)

I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942-2017)

However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it.

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942-2017)

It’s been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler.

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942-2017)

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942-2017)

He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we’d done it. Another terrible mistake.

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942-2017)

Men, all men, were always trying to get hold of me, you know.

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942-2017)

I won’t say I didn’t like it at the time, the sex, that is, because I wouldn’t have let him do it at all if that had been the case.

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942-2017)

I have survived and possibly I should not hope for more than that.

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942-2017)

I don’t know if he was the fourth man or the fifth, but he was certainly in the top 10.

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942-2017)

I enjoyed sex and indulged in it when I fancied the men.

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942-2017)

Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942-2017)

No one else knows the whole story. I was there. I lived through it.

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942-2017)

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942-2017)

I’m terrified of men these days. If someone asked me out now, I don’t know what I’d say, how I’d react. But I couldn’t go through with it, not at all. I suppose I’ve been terrified of them all along.

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942-2017)

He’s 85 and he’s met another woman. Still, at 85, why ever not?

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942-2017)

I went out every single night so I was never alone with my stepfather. At 12, I stopped going on holiday with them. The times I was alone with him I always made sure I was all covered up.

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942-2017)

I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough.

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942-2017)

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942-2017)

I have always been free with my love – it is my nature. I am easily captivated by men and they have always been attracted to me.

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942-2017)

If I don’t tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942-2017)

They came and bound me up and I had awful stretch marks. I hated my breasts after that.

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942-2017)

My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942-2017)

The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it.

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942-2017)

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942-2017)

Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn’t stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942-2017)