Bettye LaVette: ‘I'd rather be a whore than a slut!’
Bettye LaVette says she’d rather be a “whore than a slut”. The 77-year-old soul veteran, who has just bought out her new album ‘LaVette!’, admitted she was always a wild child and grew up craving sex – before her showbiz life temporarily collapsed and she ended up working as a prostitute in New York. She told The Daily Telegraph: “I never wanted to be a kid. I think I only wanted to walk and talk so I could lose my virginity! “They wouldn’t have let me be in the church choir or join the girl scouts!” Bettye got pregnant at 14, was married and divorced at 15 and by 16 had brought out her first ...