(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Dita Von Teese says she is stunned into silence by how well her boyfriend treats her.

The burlesque performer was famously married to eccentric rocker Marilyn Manson, although the pair split in 2007. Dita has been dating French aristocrat Count Louis-Marie de Castelbajac since last summer.

The 37-year-old raven-haired beauty says 26-year-old Louis is incredibly romantic, and admits she was left speechless after he treated her like a princess during a stay at his familys luxurious castle.

This man took me to his familys castle, he cooked for me there and I was so completely wooed that I couldnt speak for days afterwards. I was stunned into silence, she gushed in an interview with British newspaper the Daily Express.

Dita admits she isnt used to men treating her so nicely, confessing that in the past it wasnt unusual for her partners to act violently towards her, and she says previous lovers sometimes indulged in illegal substances which made them aggressive.

Im in shock that someone could treat me so well. I was used to people hurling things at me in the middle of the night in a cocaine rage, she added.

The American dancer has a real fondness for France, and Europe in general, and regularly performs in the continent. It was recently announced she would be taking her Far East-themed The Opium Den show to the UK for a performance at London's Olympia in November.

Dita is particularly excited about the event as she claims London is one of her favourite cities to perform in.

"With such a vibrant burlesque and fetish scene, London has always been one of my favourite places to perform," she beamed. (C) Cover Media