Imrahil wrote:Prototype wrote:Imrahil wrote:I can't remember the name, but didn't another ex-pornstar kill herself a month back.
Same person I think
Looked it up, it was Sophie Anderson. Seems to be a massive problem in the industry which gets rather glossed over.
I've read a few articles here and there about ex-porn actors struggling to maintain relationships and live a normal life afterwards. Even if you're already a bit messed up going into that career, it's surely going to mess you up even further.
There was a Japanese star who killed herself at the tail end of last year, and thanks to the way the industry is set up there, they've continued to release new films of her that were shot months ago. Sounds like the studios involved are only concerned about making their money back given that they already paid for her and the shoot.
Albert wrote:Imrahil wrote:Seems to be a massive problem in the industry which gets rather glossed over.
Yep. So many of them die young/early. I think drug abuse plays into a lot of it. Porn is this mega bucks industry, yet there seems to be no support network for the people within.
It's really poor just how readily that industry discards people, especially with a track record of recruiting already vulnerable people.
There's a great Jon Ronson podcast series called "The Last Days of August" that looks into the situation around August Ames when she killed herself years ago, and it doesn't sound like the industry has learned or improved much since then at all.
https://thebutterflyeffect.libsyn.com/