The Price of Devotion

Synopsis

At twenty-eight, I took in a broke college boy. Not just out of loneliness—mostly because he was desperate. He was struggling to pay for his mother's medical bills while still attending classes. So I brought the stray puppy home. Back then, he was painfully thin, nothing like the star he would later become. I didn't even touch him. It took me a whole year to nurse him back to health. On the first night he repaid me, he lay in my arms and whispered, "I'll make it up to you." Three years later, he became a household name. And he told the media: "The greatest shame of my life is selling myself to a rich woman three years ago. I'll carry that disgrace forever." At that very moment, I was undergoing cancer treatment. I watched on TV as he—radiant, untouchable—flirted with another actress on a red carpet. I smiled bitterly. So this... this was his way of repaying me.