“One death is a lot to deal with, but five? That’s just unheard of,” she said. And not being busy can lead to bad things,” Darling said.ĪPAC President Mia Lia, a veteran sex performer, called the rash of deaths a troubling pattern. “It’s not like you can stop being a porn star and be a teacher. Seraph, 31, was a star of more than 50 videos with titles such as “Digital Sin” and “Leather Dominance.”īut Darling said Seraph, whom she described as “the sweetest person in the world,” struggled with the lulls and often discussed what to do when producers stopped calling. Seraph, who hanged herself July 22 in her San Francisco apartment, is considered the first in the rash of deaths. What’s tough is the down periods when you’re alone with yourself, thinking, ‘Will I ever work again?’ ”ĭarling said the “feast-or-famine” business - new recruits are often in demand until they’re not - is part of the reason her best friend, January Seraph, killed herself. showed porn stars did not come from a background of sexual abuse and, in fact, had higher esteem than the normal population,” Saad said. In 2012, “the widest study ever conducted. He insisted that people who enter porn are no more prone to mental issues than anyone else. The phone stops ringing, and they say, ‘Now what?’ Porn stars aren’t the best at making a ‘what if’ plan for their future.” “When the camera is on, everybody is happy,” said behavioral scientist Gad Saad, a chair at the John Molson School of Business in Montreal, who studies the porn industry. Porn star is fifth adult actress to die in three months Still, she said, high-demand performers can routinely pull in six-figure salaries because they have enough clout to negotiate ownership rights and can rebroadcast footage elsewhere.
Like the underemployed and unemployed across America, the young women struggled with a lack of steady work. The statistic is shocking, insiders say - but the root of the problem is not.
Lua was the fifth porn star to die in seven months, with industry officials attributing the tragedies to either suicide or overdoses. 18 - the day before she was found dead of a suspected overdose of drugs and alcohol - she tweeted a picture of herself with the caption: “I feel it everywhere. They later said she had been showing up to work high. 13, three months after LA Direct Models canceled her contract. It was when the cameras were off that she fell apart. She thrived in her new career, and was nominated last year for Best New Actress at the Adult Video News Awards.
Lua - who also went by Olivia Voltaire - described herself as an “exhibitionist” and posted graphic images of herself having sex on social media. She shot dozens of scenes for hard-core movies like “Helpless Teens” before being handed a lucrative contract in April 2017 with porn producer LA Direct Models.
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