"I didn't really talk to her," Ms. Maples said yesterday morning.

"You're very pretty," said Ms. Maples, who had her Broadway debut last summer.

"The holiday line is elegant and sensual," Ms. Maples said yesterday.

While Ms. Maples still has the 7.45-carat diamond engagement ring, both say they are moving in other directions.

She also would not say how much of an advance Ms. Maples had received or whether she had to return it.

"It's a time to be more conscious of everything that's happening," Ms. Maples said.

This is nasty stuff, though it only seems to feed the public's fascination with Ms. Maples, who is 28 years old.

"I don't want us to live together until we're married," Ms. Maples says.

"It was a town where you trusted people," Ms. Maples says.

Ms. Maples does not know where life will take her next, she admitted to her interviewer.