Chapter Two:

CHRIS WRITES: Madonna had left Michigan without graduating and moved to Manhattan. Later, she will claim of that first trip, "I came here with 35$ in my pocket. It was the bravest thing I've ever done" - This Christopher claims is pure Mythology. She was a middle class girl with plenty of contacts in Manhattan - other dancers she'd studied with and instructors she had already known; and far from being this lost, friendless little waif who didn't even have a crust of dry bread to eat, she had money in her pocket and a support system in place. The further she rose to fame the more mythological the story of her first trip to Manhattan became. Christopher accuses her of "embellishing her own biography..."