Monica Lewinsky, a 'Days of Our Lives' fan, now in soap opera of her own.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Monica Lewinsky's former headmaster says the one-time school choir member can carry a tune.

Now, the entire nation is waiting to hear if the 24-year-old Californian will sing one more time _ to prosecutors who want to know about allegations she had sexual dalliances with President Clinton in the White House and engaged in late-night phone sex.

Reporters from across America spent Wednesday scurrying to learn what they could about a most ordinary young woman, just 2{ years out of college and involved in a most extraordinary situation: A sex scandal that could topple the President of the United States.

Lewinsky's most revealing public comment _ because it's her only public comment _ came in 1991, when she spoke to a reporter from the Los Angeles Times about a pet topic: The soap opera ``Days of Our Lives.''

``People who are always saying daytime TV is something that is not to be credited are wrong,'' said Lewinsky, one of 300 women waiting on line to meet soap star Matthew Ashford. ```Days of Our Lives' adds spice to a life, rather than being the essence of a life.''

Now, Lewinsky is caught up in a tawdry soap opera of her own, the plot line more sordid than most daytime fare.

It's a bizarre twist for the daughter of a prominent Los Angeles cancer doctor, a woman who graduated from a small liberal arts college in Oregon and took an unpaid job at the White House that led to a gig delivering mail.