00:19:45.520How prevalent is drug use in the porn industry?
00:19:49.180I only know two women when I was in the industry that did not use drugs.
00:19:54.960I have lost so many people that were co-workers of mine, even in just recent years.
00:20:01.260some of the most well-known women in that industry have just recently died of overdoses
00:20:07.640and suicide. I hear a lot of people say, you know, why should we really care about porn?
00:20:13.960These are grownups consenting to making videos for people to consensually consume. Sure,
00:20:21.940we might be personally against it, but why does it matter? Like, is that an accurate picture of
00:20:27.020pornography, just grownups consenting to having a good time? Yes and no. I think it might start
00:20:33.300off that way. But I mean, I have women reaching out to me all the time that are so broken and
00:20:38.320feel so stuck. So why should we care? Because there's people in the industry that are actually
00:20:43.340hurting and most of them won't ever admit it to the public because you have to put on a persona,
00:20:49.380right? So like I had a stage name and when I would post on my social media as my stage name,
00:20:54.780I'm not going to post a photo saying, I am so depressed. I feel like ending my life today.
00:20:59.200I'm not going to show that side. I'm going to put on a smile and say, hey, guess what, guys?
00:21:04.400Look who I get to work with today. Look at what new purse I bought today. And there's so much
00:21:11.240brokenness in the industry that people would never admit unless they're at their breaking point.
00:21:18.640I've talked to other people. This was a man who had been in the porn industry. And he talks about
00:21:23.920how, you know, it started one way where he was doing porn with women and, you know, he's straight
00:21:29.720attracted to women, but then it just got more and more intense and more and more aggressive. And then
00:21:36.020it was gay porn because he could make more money. He was also getting a bunch of accolades. Like,
00:21:41.820did you ever feel that, okay, this is spiraling into more and more intense, more and more
00:21:47.200violent content that is kind of scaring me? Uh, yes. So three years in like, okay. So up to three
00:21:57.760years, like I had some very hard nose on things that like, I was like, I will not do. I've never
00:22:02.680even done that in my personal life. I will not do that. Um, but when it came to some aggressive
00:22:09.660of scenes like spanking and like smacking and spitting and pulling hair like I would agree to
00:22:17.940those scenes if they would pay me more money and though I hated it and it felt uncomfortable
00:22:23.160sadly some of it also felt normal to me because of my upbringing yeah there is this big problem
00:22:30.320and we've talked about like the dangers of Pornhub and everything but also just like the popularity
00:22:36.860majority of adolescent content or like pretending to be adolescent. And that, of course, changes the
00:22:44.000taste of the people consuming it. Like when you were in the industry, did you see that as a big
00:22:48.760problem? Yes. So when I say that I was not a woman of conviction, but there were very few things,
00:22:53.920that was one of the things. So when I first started off in the industry, the reason why I was getting
00:22:58.800books so much is because I was 18 years old and I look like a little girl. And they would put me
00:23:03.700in pigtails and costume jewelry and schoolgirl outfits and have me say, oh, I'm barely 18.
00:23:10.500One day a light flickered in me and I was like, do you guys realize this is encouraging pedophilia?
00:23:17.560And I'm like, because I'm very protective over children because of my childhood. And I'm like,
00:23:22.360like, you know, I had to go to my agent and I told him like, hey, I cannot do these scenes
00:23:27.480anymore. Do not book me for these. It was like I was doing them. And then it just something just
00:23:32.380hit me where I was like, this is wrong. This is not okay. And now that I'm out, I see that
00:23:39.920pornography really is a drug. It releases so much dopamine in your brain. And eventually,
00:23:46.140what you watch on porn does not fill you anymore. And so now you have to go reenact those things
00:23:52.180in real life. It starts off by hiring escorts. And then that's not enough. And then people are
00:23:59.040doing things to children. And we see that all over and it's sickening. And I truly blame
00:24:04.800pornography for that because what they're watching, they're feeding their soul and then
00:24:09.640they start craving that because eventually it's just not enough anymore. I saw a documentary of
00:24:15.740a guy who had 6,000 images of child pornography when he was raided. 6,000 images from the dark
00:24:24.420web. It is sickening. It breaks my heart. It angers me. But he started off watching the
00:24:31.040morally acceptable scenes, the husband and wife, and then started watching the young teenage 18
00:24:37.780girl, 18 year old with the old man. And eventually that wasn't enough. Yeah.
00:24:43.220So after you were in the industry for a few years, I think about three years,
00:24:48.460you actually became a Christian. So tell me about that moment.
00:24:51.840Yeah, I was detoxing from heroin living in Los Angeles and couldn't get a hold of any drugs. And I called my grandma and I'm like, grandma, I need your help. If you don't help me, like I'm probably going to end my life because the way that I feel right now is like I just I'm chasing death. Like I can't do this anymore.
00:25:12.260And so she drove up to LA and she picked me up and I moved in with her and was able to
00:25:18.580get Suboxone to help kind of alleviate a little bit of the symptoms and detox at her house