April 23, 2024 • 51 mins
Domonique Simone was one of the first women to break the ceiling for African American adult film stars. She was the first Black woman to be inducted into the Adult Video Hall of Fame.
Deidre’s story provides a firsthand glimpse at the adult film industry in its heyday as interracial sex became mainstream as well as the intersection of rap and rock music with porn.
Deidre worked as an escort for Madame Alex & Heidi Fleiss before leaving sex work and then working as a mortgage broker & nurse.
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Deidre’s story provides a firsthand glimpse at the adult film industry in its heyday as interracial sex became mainstream as well as the intersection of rap and rock music with porn.
Deidre worked as an escort for Madame Alex & Heidi Fleiss before leaving sex work and then working as a mortgage broker & nurse.
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Brian Sebastian, movie reviews and more. And if it's Tuesday, that means
we're live. So last week,where was that last week? Last week,
I was in North Carolina. Thisweek I'm in Georgia. But it's
one of those things where I neverI had to think of where I was
for a minute there and who wascoming on with us? Well, I
actually knew, but it's one ofthose things is that I wanted to make
sure everything was okay. We gotour book. You know, Jeremy was
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coming on, Angela was coming on. I didn't care about anything else.
As long as those two people hadthe book. That's all I cared about.
So I'm happy with today's show.And if it's give me Tuesday,
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know Saint You's Hospital. Ours isstreammever Arts, Streamier Artists Ranch and we
are streaming on over one hundred outletsaround the world as usual. And I've
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been waiting for this show. I'vesaved this show for the longest time because
I haven't done a show on adultperformers. My friends and the X rayed
industry know the lifestyle. I wantedto wait, and I'm glad I waited
because all of a sudden, mygood friend Steve Earnhard called me and said,
you know what, Brian Dominique Simon'sgot a book. I'm like,
what what's she doing? I didn'tknow she was around anymore. No,
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she's with me all the time.I'm like, well, where are you.
So for of those people don't knowwho Steve is, I have to
mention him. He was one ofthe worlds well he still is one of
the world's best hair stylists. Soeverybody from Chaer to Farah Fausted, robertal
Ricotto went on the Bond. Thelist goes on and on, and he
used to cut my hair until hemoved. And it was one of these
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things where I didn't know that hewas one of those guys who was on
the adult side doing things. Ididn't know that he hung out with Dominique
Simone. We didn't know until acouple days ago when we were talking about
stuff. So before I get intoher, I'm gonna let these two hosts
introduce themselves. And the reason whybecause they have greenway to do anything that
they want on movie reviews. More. We got to start with ladies.
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She is that actress, she isthat model, She is that producer,
she is that director, she isthat attorney, she is that host Colliding
World's podcast. She's done a lotof stuff and I love what she does.
Angela, I'll let you introduce yourself. Even though I did it,
I had to say all of thatbecause you do a lot of stuff.
Go ahead, and I also forgeta lot of things. I said what
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I said, Yeah right, No, it's I moved to Brentwood, Tennessee,
and I've been really more deep,knee deep in writing, working on
the scripts and the TV show willbe almost finished, almost finished with season
two, Have Always Here, whichis on Amazon Prime, the writing of
Gallas, a couple of scripts incompetition right now. We're winning to see
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and fingers crossed I have an opportunityto pitch two shows to a showrunner,
and I'm excited about that. AndI was excited to read Dominique's book,
and I did read it cover tocover. I downloaded it, I found
it on Kindle, and I readthe whole thing, and it was it
was fascinating to me. I know, people are the people who worked in
this industry, and and it's it'sinteresting what their stories are and the similarity
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threads and what's different about it.But ultimately, what I find fascinating is
with people's perception of they say adultstar and the reality of who they are
are two different things. And Ithought it was it was a great read
to see a human side of somebodyand I and I and I appreciated that
for the book and for lots ofother reasons, but I thought I thought
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it was I commend the book toanybody to read it. It's not you're
not going to sit there, it'snot War in Peace, You're not going
to be reading it for decades.You're going to read it, and you're
going to sit there and you're goingto go start to finish because it's going
to pull you in. And andthat that's that's very good. So I'm
happy to have the opportunity to talkwith you. And then I'm going to
toss this to back to Brian sohe can talk to Jeremy. Sojeremy.
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I had to toss this to Jeremybecause Jeremy was the first person I call.
I said, Jeremy, I thinkyou'll like this, and if he
likes it, I wanted to haveher. See I'm not even talking to
her. I'm pretending she's not here. You know. I want to have
Dominique on the show because I knewhe would dive deep in this stuff.
So he is that mindful meet mepodcast host which is becoming very successful.
He may not think it is whenI'm telling you it's a great show.
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So is at Angelus, And youknow, he is that former director of
my favorite drummer Viewghore in the worldthat Santa Clara Vanguard. He does.
He has that high altitude mindset andhe is that coach. He does a
lot of great things too. Heis also a drummer and US drummers bang
harder. Who knew half of USdrummers would become podcast hosts. He knew
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that far so does it count him. I was a chick singer in the
band. Is it all counts?It's all music. And so with that,
Jeremy, go ahead and talk aboutyourself, because I want her to
know who you are also in whatyou do. Well, goodness, gracious,
you did such a great job ofintroducing that. I don't know how
much more I actually have to sayto All of these things are true.
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I've been a licensed marriaging family therapistfor fifteen years, and I've worked with
individuals and couples that are overcoming alot of things. And I work right
now with a lot of high performingpeople who are really going deeply into finding
out who it is that they areand whether or not they want to continue
doing what it is that they've gottenhalfway through a career doing, and whether
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or not they want to change course. And I was also just recently certified
as a psychedelic therapist, and soI am really excited about where that entire
industry is going. Working with ketamineand these kinds of substances, people will
dive really deep into the concept ofwho they are in the cosmos, in
themselves and what they are beyond there, beyond their depression beyond their anxiety and
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these wonderful things. And also,Dominique, thank you so much for writing
such a wonderful, sensitive book.It was very much exactly what was said
before. It was. It wasvery, very sensitive, very humanizing.
I enjoyed so many of your storiesand your self reflection at times when you
really felt that you were on theright track and times when you felt like
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maybe that you had slid off ofthat track. And I really want to
I have so many questions about allof this. And now my lighting is
going awry as you used to bein the back, and so I'm going
to go and fix that. Andwith that, why he fixes it,
I'll take over from here because wealways have everything going. When technology works
at the works. When it doesn't, you just wing it. So she
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is that actual, she is thatmodel, She is that cool mom,
and she is that hall of fameand with over two hundred movies, I'm
gonna say this, Dominique underneath herdress and you know she was she is
wold went out And I'm happy becauseit turns out that a lot of her
friends in that book were my friendsthat we were hanging out of It turns
out that we were at the sameplaces pretty much at the same time.
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I was there during the day,she was there at night. As we
would say, there's two worlds,the day and at the night. And
I would bring the girls out,I would escort them, I would drive
them. I would to make surethat nothing happened to them. And she
tells those same things and her versionof what she went through in the book.
She is and was that most popularand that most desired woman in that
Indi adult industry. So when itcomes to superstars, she is and was
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that superstar, the one and onlyDominique Simone. All right, Dominic.
Oh, and so we had ourNonStop Terry Murrie, one of my longest
co hosts. He's been with mefor ten years. She popped off.
So Dominic, we got to talkabout your book because I was just giving
in to one of my other friendsthat he was reading it. He was
reading it quickly. What those twosaid, it is a very fast,
good read. And the things thatyou remember. Most performers don't remember anything.
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I have to remind them what theydid and they go, oh,
yeah, I remember doing that.Yeah, that's why I was there.
But for you, I don't knowhow you remember all the stuff. You
were very detailed on who you wouldwin when it was going. My hat
goes off to you. That's noteasy, especially with what you were doing
in that time, because in theeighties and nineties we were having a hell
of a time, weren't we.Oh wow, it was so much fun,
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so much fun. I had abless I don't think there'll ever be
another time like that. No,I'm going to start up with this first
question and I'll else let everybody takeit from there. Talk about Veronica Brazil,
mim Miaki, John Singleton, Tomsize More. I'll let you go
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wherever you want to go. Gofor it. Wow, I wanted to
get amazing. Okay, you're prettyinteresting. Stree from Ston. I met
him at a bachelor party for acasting director and I go to this bachelor
party and the whole cast of inLiving Colors. I mean, Bamy Fox
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is there, John Similton is theretoo short, you know, And I'm
there with me Me Miyagi, she'sthe person that I'm doing the bachelor party
with me, and so we goin. So it was so funny because
the first person I see is Jamieand I had one like a week prior
and he had asked me, oh, do I know you from somewhere?
What do you do for a livingnational houses? You know, And so
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then he sees me at this party, you know, and I'm coming out
with the baby with Memi Miyake,and so we do the show, a
girl girl show. It was like, you know, we danced and then
we did a little girl girls show. And so I don't I don't remember
if it was Jamie or someone askedme to go over to John because he
was really shy, but he wasa really big fan of mine, and
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I had done Girls in the Hoodand everything, and so I go over
and and I sit me me onon his map, and I go right
there, right there and all theguys and he was just like he was
just like so freaked out. Butthat's that's how we became friends. I
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met him at that party and webecame really good friends after that. And
he actually came on to the moviesets and it was for Sean Michaels for
a movie called Women of Color,and he was there, you know,
just to kind of check it out, and he didn't like the way to
host it up. It was like, give me the camera. So he
actually directed me through one of myscenes that I did in that movie Women's
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Color, So it was pretty fun. Yeah, And he had told me,
like when I first met him thatwhen he first got into the movie
industry, one of the things thathe wanted to do was do an adult
movie. But his first movie wasof Chorus Boys and the Hood and he
got an Oscar for that. So, you know, he was a really
really amazing guy. And I've hadI've been fortunate enough to meet a lot
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of really incredible people from being inthe industry. A lot of really nice
and incredible people talk about how youwrit wrote this book, what made you
finally write it? And and Johnwas very shy. This is whatever for
the audience in case they don't know, when when a mainstream celebrity wanted to
go to an adult shoot they weresaid, we're going for research. They
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were that's they used to They usedto say that we're going to do research.
They said the same thing for BoogieKnights, you know, when Paul
Thomas Anderson went on. Now,Paul Thomas is huge, but that was
his first film, or in hissecond film, But it was one of
those things I thought they would alwayssay that the actors. William H.
Macy was school. You know,all of them. We're going for research.
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They were all fans of the girlsand of the guys, but that
was their whole thing. And Johnwas shy, but all those guys behind
the scenes, they were all fansof yours. Yeah, he was very
shy, and we we became reallygood friends after that. All right,
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Jeremy take it away. Yeah,A good question for you, Dominique.
And again just to really really enjoyedthe book, and I wanted to get
a sense from you about so youwhat the book talks about is you grew
up in a space where you therewasn't really it felt like a lot of
time for you as a young ladyas you grew up, and it was
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really hard for you to get thekind your needs met and these different things.
And then all of a sudden,you're in Hollywood and there are all
of these opportunities for fast cash andhanging out with all of these really high
profile people that like you and wantto be around you, and these sorts
of things. And so, asa young lady who is very fresh to
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this to the movie scene, canyou talk about how easy or difficult it
was afore for you to get thingsthat you you needed. And I'm really
talking about the concept of the youngperson entering the world of glitz and glenns
and the things that can pull youin really quick, the choices that you
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have to make keeping yourself safe andthat whole world. What are kind of
tales of caution or encouragement do youhave? Well, when I came here,
I came here straight from I wasseventeen years old, straight out of
high school, and I came hereon a scholarship to go to college.
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And things didn't go the way Ihad planned, and I ended up dropping
out of school. And I wasworking as a manager in a clothing store
and just things weren't going very well. And I went over to an agent
that was advertising in a paper,you remember, the La Weekly, La
Express, And there was an adfor figure modeling. So I responded to
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that because I thought it was forBaden suit modeling. And when I went
into the office, he did havea front like he was a regular agent,
but he was actually an adult agent, and it was just kind of
amazing because when I went in there, he was I told him that I
wanted to do bathing suit modeling,and all the time he was looking for
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adult video actresses, and he kindof pulled the bait and switched on me.
You know, He's like, well, you know, until I can
get you work in this magazine,but I can get you in this magazine.
And the magazine that he told meabout was was Player's Magazine, and
he told me about Hustler Magazine.And I was just like, I can't
do anything like that. But Iended up being in a tough situation and
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going back and my first shoot wasfor Hustler Magazine. And one of the
things that I should say that girlsshould be cautious of is I responded to
an ad in a paper. Youknow, in this day and age,
that couldn't happen because so many badthings happening to girls. They're going to
places and being kidnapped in and forcedinto prostitution rings and stuff like that.
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So I was just really fortunate thatit wasn't one of those situations where I've
been in some pretty bad situations thatwere pretty scary. But I was just
very fortunate that with him, itwasn't like that I didn't go to his
home. I went to an actualoffice, and he did have a total
office setup, but it was kindof deceiving. So I would say that
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if someone's advertising that they're looking formodels, you have to be really careful
about where you go. My TeVjust came on. I was like,
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oh, good, hell, andI'm like what is so? So anyways,
you have to just be really carefulabout who you go and meet and
how you go about it because there'sa lot of danger situations that can occur.
Yes, So I would just tellthe young girls today to just be
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to just be really careful and makesure you do research. And it's probably
best to take someone with you whenyou go on something like that because you
never know. I mean, therewas years ago there was a story out
here in Los Angeles where a girlmade a photographer for a photo shoot and
they went up in the mountains andhe killed her. So it's just a
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lot of horrible things that can happen, and it's just really scary. Now.
That girl, that girl, Iknew, that girl's lived in her
most of each Yes, yes,I was. I was an acquaintance of
her. I didn't know her personally, but she was friends with a lot
of my friends, So that prettymuch traumatized me because I have actually hung
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out with her. So that wasAnd there's something you're saying, is like
back in the nineties, I mean, I've been acting off and on my
whole life, but I had hadsimilar situations happened to me where I'd gone
to interviews that were set up tobe legitimate projects that ended up to be
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you know, adult stuff that Ididn't want to do at that time.
But it was kind of seaty theway that they did that back then in
the early nineties. They would getyou in there and they did the same
thing that they did you. Ijust never went that route. I was
too shy to like do it.But I mean, there it's looking back
at it, there's some scary thingsthat could have happened to me, you
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know, just from showing up tothese auditions and you know, you think
you're doing a swimsuit thing and they'dbe like stripped down and then the next
thing you're like, okay, I'mlike you're like naked for this guy and
this, you know, for swimsuits. So I've been in those awkward situations
and it's it's just you have toI mean, I don't know, it's
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my angels were following me because nothingbad happened, but it's you know,
that is something that you do haveto warn the girls about, you know,
the young girls. Yes, youwere saying. So we wanted to
show a couple of photos before Jeremyasked a question. I love this dress.
Talk about this stress because you wentto the fashion Institute of you know,
design the god one. Wow.I don't even remember where I got
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that dress. I ordered it online. And this actually was not my first
book cover shoot. I actually hadshot with a few different photographers. And
this photographer's name is Nick sim simBlighini, and he shot a lot of
stuff with Kim Kardashian and with theKardashians, and I had seen his work
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and I was like, I reallyloved I really loved his work. So
I did my first cover shoot withhim. And once I got my published.
As my publicist she was like,Okay, I love that picture.
It's beautiful, she said. Ifyou're driving up Sunset Boulevard and you see
that picture, you think it wasjust like we're a fashion at she said,
But I want you to pop outin that photo who you are,
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And she said, and I justfeel like we can do it differently,
you know, And so she wedid the second photo shoot, which was
amazing. I had a lot offun and that dress, the green dress,
was actually my stylace. Her namewas Andrea Ward. She she picked
out the dress for the green dress, but the white dress that was my
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dress. And that was a reallyfun shoot. All of those guys were
models that had sent there there picturesin to be on the cover, and
I got to like kind of stiffthrough all these pictures of these beautiful guys,
and and we had so many submissionsand we had to, you know,
put it down to eight guys.So yes, it was this really
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fun a lot of hot guys andwe we actually did another version of my
cover where I was in a Itwas under aquarium and I was underwater,
but I didn't know how to swim. So what they did is they had
a lifeguard in there with me,and he was very very good looking,
and they had him in there withme, and so what they were going
to do there, we were tryingto do is like Beyonce Pheld where I'm
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under the water and you know,and we were trying to do something like
that. But of course I panickedwhen they put me in there, and
I was just like, oh,and so so they ended up the guy
that was the diver. They endedup using him for the one picture and
it actually turned out pretty good,and those pictures, I think that one
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picture is in the book. Butit was just really really fun to shoot
the cover and it was just alot of fun, a lot of fun.
Jeremy, you got to ask something. Yeah, in the book,
you discussed the difficulty that there wasas your children were getting a little bit
older, and the kind of difficultythat they had and kind of processing as
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they were young people of what itis that your your professions and everything like
that. Can you talk about howyour relationship with your children has has evolved
and kind of where it is now. Well, First, first of all,
I have four children, aged sixteen, two, twenty five, and
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eighteen. And it's so funny becauseI was just talking to my son earlier
today and telling him that I wasdoing this interview, and my twenty five
year old found out about me beingin the industry when he was ten.
His dad told him, and Inoticed that when after he went to high
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school, I would go to someof his events and all of his friends
would be like, Oh, who'sthat girl. Who's that girl? And
he's like, that'sk my mom,that's my mom. So that would just
kind of agitate him. But hedidn't really. He didn't have anyone that
heckoed him or bullied him or didanything. Because I was in the adult
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industry, he didn't go through that. I have a daughter that's sixteen,
and I have my son that's eighteen. We all have a really good relationship.
They're all aware of what I didfor a living. My eighteen year
old and my twenty five year oldhave been a little bit more verbal about
it. But my daughter is onlysixteen, so we haven't really had that
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conversation. But I was just talkingto my mom today and she said,
I think it's time for you tohave that conversation with her because she's in
high school, and you know,I have my Instagram and stuff, and
I don't want her friends to seethat, and I separate my dominique simone
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page from my personal page. Butstill, you know, kids are just
so the way they can advocate online, they can find out anything. So
I do worry about that, andit is something that a discussion that I'm
gonna have to have with with mydaughter, I will definitely have to have
it. And I was you know, I have a lot of friends that
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do only fans, And I wasasked, why don't you have an only
fans. Why don't you have anonly fans, And that's one of the
reasons why so Yeah, and Iimagine so, And can you talk about
also the role of empowerment, theway in which you feel like your unique
life experience has helped you feel empoweredin this world, help you feel a
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sense of accomplishment and that you knowwhat it is that you're capable of,
and what it is that you feelyou are uniquely qualified to be and to
do well. I entered this industry. I entered an industry that was predominantly
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Oh to my phone off, I'mso sorry that just happened. I entered
an industry that was predominantly white,and I was one of the first first
African American girls to kind of likego and feature at different clubs. There
was a lot of clubs that didnot want to hire me because I was
black, and then there were someclubs that said, okay, well we'll
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give her a shot. And Iactually was one of the first African American
girls to be on the cover ofABEN to feature dance at certain clubs.
So I felt like I broke themode and I opened the door for lots
of other African American women to comein. And recently I was at the
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AVN Show and I had the opportunityto meet Missy Stone, who was after
myself. I had never met her. A really nice girl and I was
able to meet a lot of girlsin the industry now a She came up
to me and said, thank youso much for what you have done.
Thank you so much for opening thedoor for me to be able to express
myself and be who I am.I feel like I accomplished a lot in
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the industry, very happy at everywith everything that I did, and I
was one of the things about mewhen I was in the industry, I
was very particular about who I shotwith, who did my makeup, how
I represented myself, my image,and that was very very important to me.
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And Missy came up to me andshe said, thank you so much
for that, for being a positiverole model, and that made me feel
really good. Made me feel reallygood. They dominate talk about your your
friendship, going to write aid hangingout with Tom's size more because you had
a great relationship with him, andI love that, and that's what people
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understand. They're the great benefits ofbeing on the adult side of things as
sort of the negative things. Butyou probably probably wouldn't have had some of
those great friendships if you hadn't donewhat she had done. Yes, Yes,
and Tom. It was so funnybecause Tom was one of my very
dear friends and I talk about himin the book, and he he was
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just a very unique person. Icould sit and talk with him for hours.
He had the most amazing stories andhe was just so amazing. There
are many times when I would bewith him for two or three days and
he'd say, Oh my goodness,I forgot I had this audition, and
he just get up and he's like, oh, I got I have an
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audition in like an hour, andhe'd read a script and he'd go in
and he get the part. Youknow. He was just he was just
amazing. It was so funny howI met him, because I met him
on a blind day. One ofmy friends called me and said, I
have this guy. He's an actor. He wants to meet you, and
his name is Tom and I toldhim. I said, oh, I
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don't really don't feel like meeting anyone, and he was like, well,
why don't you meet him? Youknow? And so he had a place
downtown and so I took one ofmy friends with me over there to meet
him. I had no clue whohe was even after meeting him, didn't
know. And so he met medown downstairs, really fancy apartment complex.
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He met me downstairs, and wewent upstairs and he started showing us like
trailers from his movies. And thenmy friend was just like, oh,
this guy's a movie star. Stilldidn't know who he was. And I
hadn't watched any of his movies untilafter we had already started dating that guys
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from the Rehab Show. And Iwas like, what Rehab show? So
I hadn't seen any of the thingsthat everyone was talking about, all of
the gossip and the things that peoplewere talking about until after I had already
started dating him and after we hadbroken up. All right, you got
to tell this story because this isthe rock and roll routes. I'm pretty
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sure in that CVS or right aidstore, because these are the days and
Terry knows this. These are thedays in Los Angeles with everybody. All
the rockers would go shopping between twoand the hours of five in the morning,
because this is when they were outpartying and doing all kinds off and
they love being with adult performers,just like those movie stars and those adult
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performers. Half the time they didn'tknow who they were. They were too
busy working. So they had thishuge fan base. And for me,
I was the only one that Iwould interview them to be friends with them,
with the adult performers, So Ikind of brought the worlds together in
a strange way, because, likeI said, she was doing it at
night. I was there during theday, and I would you know,
we talked about saving Private Ryan,which is what Tom was in, and
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plus a lot of other great things. And I remember doing that interview.
But I also remember he was hewas he was having fun, just like
Charlie. She was. Yeah,a lot of f All right, talk
about this one before Jeremy asked orsomething, And I know Angela's got to
ask something. Talk about Charlie becauseyou can help set the record straight with
Charlie. Charlie was a great guybecause you ended up going to his house
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and what happened or are you talkingabout? Yeah, he invited me up
to a party for his brother,which was supposed to be a divorced party
when he was divorcing Paula, andAmelia was very distraught about it. But
Charlie set up this party and invitedall of these set seahawk girls. But
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one of the rules that they hadthey didn't want anyone that was affiliated with
adult films. But I was ableto squeak through. And who did I
bring with me? For Veronica Brazil? Of course they were when you come
dressed very discreetly, and so youknow, they didn't want us like coming
in like you know, the boothsall out and everything like that. You
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were like, you know, dressvery nice. So you know, I
chose to wear something that was floey, and you know, and I go
and pick up Veronica and I'm inmy corvette. I go and pick her
up and she hops in the carand she has on this lace red like
kind of like negligee dress and I'mlike, oh, that's what you're wearing.
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And she's like, your baby,he says, that's how she talked.
You know, your baby, I'mwearing this. And I was like,
oh, no, you can't wearthat. So we go to the
party, and of course when wegot there, they asked her to leave
because of how she does dress,you know. But I get up there
and Charlie has all of these girlsaround him, and he's just like,
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you know, entertaining, and Istarted drinking a little bit. I didn't
feel like hanging out with him anda bunch of girls. So I go
venturing off into this house and wewere somewhere in maliboum. I go venturing
off in this house and I walkinto this room and I see this big
picture of this I thought it wasa black eye when he was Cuban.
He was, you know, verydark. And I was like, oh
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my goodness, who is that?And there's a guy in there and he
turns around and he's like, that'smy great great great grandfather. And it
was a millium and he was Iwas like, why are you up here
in this room? And and there'sa party going on downstairs. And so
we talked and stuff and ended uphanging out and I hung out there all
night, and he said he wasa very nice guy. And Charlie ended
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up taking off and going to ashirt club with about five or six girls,
and I ended up waking up thenext day with his brother and the
whole party was everything was cleared out, everything was put away, and and
we just went for a nice walkon the beach and it was it was
pretty nice. You know. Oneof the things you're talking about, a
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lot of adult performers were sounding boardsfor a lot of these celebrities, and
a lot of times when you know, you know, when you're working with
Hattie Flie or the other person thename was Alexa I think it was Aless
Yeah, Alice Manimanalis Menimalism. Yeah, that's an interesting situation because people didn't
realize a lot of fans wanted tomeet everybody, and sometimes that was the
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only way for them to meet themunless she came dancing through their town or
whatever, or they came to av and it just wasn't gonna happen.
Talk about that situation when you meetwith someone and you're just kind of you
kind of they want you for certainreasons. Talk about some of the reasons
why they desired you on besides whatyou thought they might want you for,
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well, of course, being beingin the sets industry. Even when you
even with it with my personal life. Is just like when I when I
started dating a guy, it wasthe first thing they wanted to do,
is like have a three way bwith one of my girlfriends. If I
wasn't in the dull industry, Idon't think I would have been approached with
something like that, you know.So, so being in the industry does
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carry a lot of stigmas, andpeople think that we are sitting up partying
all day, we're on drugs anddoing this, and some people are.
But on the movie sets, itwas totally professional. There was no drugs,
there was no people sitting around shootingup, drinking and boozing. It
was totally professional. The only differenceis we actually went through the motions of
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having sets and you were able tosee it. Where so right now,
on some of these shows that wewatched on TV, they're basically it's basically
softcore porn, but you're just notseeing the hard core version of it.
So I did have a lot ofinstances where people did want to meet me
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because I was dominique samong Basically that'sall that really happened when I was in
the industry. I got to inviteit to a lot of parties because there
are people that wanted to meet me. That was just part of the game.
They didn't want to meet Deirdre.They wanted to meet the porn star.
And back you know, back inthe nineties, you weren't a rock
star until you were dating a pornstar. There were so many porn stars
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that were dating rock stars and actors. Now there they kind of shy away
from that. But back in thenineties, everyone was dating porn stars.
There's Savannah and Slash, there isWow Jenna Jamison and Tito, and it
was just it was just it wasjust a cool thing to do. But
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now they kind of shy away fromit. And you because, okay,
we got to we can't go outin front of the cameras together because I
have to protect my my image,you know. And that was also one
thing that would hurt the girls becauseI could see those and I knew those
publicists. I was talking to youabout who they were and why they did
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that. They had to protect theirclients. The girls didn't always know that,
so I would explain it to them, and that's why I started bringing
them to a lot of junkens.See person that you're there. I mean
I used Nick Notey as an example. He was dating someone one of my
friends. I brought her to Ithink it was the thin red Line that
we were doing, and Nick lookedat her as like, this can't be
the same girl. She was lookingat him because he wasn't acknowledging him,
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like he can't acknowledge you. He'shere to do press for this film.
You know again, this is thedaytime, this is that, this is
not at night. And at thesame time, she rescued Nick from the
paparazzi and I was there when theywere chasing him in a white man because
this is when he couldn't drive.So it was it was a really interesting
time when what they got away withand then how easily you were discarded.
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Bill Margot, my old co host, would say, they you know,
they jerk up with you with theirleft hand and they push you away with
the right because you can't be seenwith them because of their image. Well,
what they failed to remember was whatabout the girls image? What that
does to that performer? Talk aboutthat? Yes, you know, it's
so crazy because some of the craziesttimes that I've experienced have been basically out
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with some of my celebrity friends,and I been in some pretty crazy to
see the situations, but it couldbe traumatizing a little bit, you know,
when you're dating someone and then tohave them say, well, I
can't take you to this because mymy agent let me. And I remember
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I was that was a model andI had done a shoot with him for
his portfolio and he had it inhis in his at that time, they
had the portfolio books that they wouldgo and look at when they go to
audition a picture with him and myselfin his portfolio, and his agent told
him, no, I want youto redo this shot with this model,
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and no, you cannot put herin your portfolio. And I was really
I was really hurt by that,but that's just the way it was.
And he was he was the legitimateside of the industry, so he wasn't
an adult video for former. Hewas on the great side. So you
know, I had to just kindof dealing with it. Yeah, Dominic,
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I love your openness and your willingnessto talk about, you know,
the good, bad, and theugly of everything. And I'm wondering you've
had such a long period of timein Hollywood on all different sides of Hollywood.
You come to know a lot ofdifferent people in Hollywood, and over
this long period of time, whatare the kind of unique perspectives that you
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have come to with regard to thepeople that are involved in Hollywood, but
higher profile people, people who areeither on the adult side or on the
other side of Hollywood. What haveyou learned about the people and what are
the kind of I guess, valuesor struggles that you see that are relatively
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unique to that world. It's avery it's a very lonely world. It's
a very lonely world. When you'rea celebrity, you have people that want
to be around you just because ofwho you are or what they can get
from you. And Brian is right, I was a sounding board for a
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lot of people. And I rememberedwhen I first did my first appearance in
New York as a dancer, andI talk about this in the intro of
my book, and just walking downforty second Avenue and seeing my pictures in
all of these different stores and mybox covers in these windows, and having
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people walk up to me and talkto me, and it made me feel
very uncomfortable. But at the time, I was just eighteen years old,
and I didn't realize that I wasa star. I didn't even know that
you can be a star in ourindustry until I went to New York and
saw all of that. And Iremember one time being in Hollywood being I
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went to go purchase one of mymagazines, and I remember just going into
this you know, the Hollywood Thebooks are on Hollywood and Wilcox. I
went there and you can go insideand that's where the adult session was.
So I wasn't thinking. I justwent in there and I picked up one
of my magazines that I was undercover of, and I was just really
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excited to see what the shoot lookedlike. And I was kind of and
this guy came up behind me andhe kind of whispered and he was like,
I know who you are, andit scared me. You have no
private life. You have people thatare constantly when when you're an adult industry,
you have no private life. We'rehaving sets in front of all of
these people for the world to see, so you basically don't have a private
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life. It's hard to date,it's hard to it's hard with your families.
You know, you have a lotof families that disowned their sons and
daughters because they went into the adultindustry. And I found that there are
a lot of a lot of people, other people that were face seeing the
same problems that I was facing.It's just a very lonely world. Lonely
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world, and you have to beyou have to just kind of be really
selective and and think about who's aroundyou because they really want to be around
you. Is this person with mebecause they want something from me? Is
this person with me because I canget them in the club and they don't
have to, you know, standin line. It's just you have to
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really and it's it's just really hard. It's really really hard. We got
a couple of minutes left. Angelabefore you jump in real quickly asked this,
So I'm gonna mention a couple ofnames. Robert de Niro, Prince,
go for It, Prince. Imet Prince in a nightclub. He
actually had his bodyguard come up tome and asked me if I would come
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and sit with him, and hewas amazing. I had I had on
this outfit and it's like this blackpants with this little bra, and I
had a five inch stilettos. Andof course people think I'm much taller than
I am. I'm only five five, but in five inchills, I'm like
almost its feet. And I wasstanding next to him and he was so
tiny. He was sucking on alollipop blowpop, and we were just sitting
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there. He likes to he likesthe people watch, you know, so
we were just sitting there, laughingand watching people. So much fun.
Amazing, one of the best timesfor me. Talk about this photo right
here. Wow. My photographer RobertO Leanna took that in my That was
in my bedroom, and I hadactually gotten dressed to go on location and
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shoot, and we were losing lightand he was like, we got to
shoot this now, We got toshoot this now. And so I say,
okay, I'm going to stand upagainst this wall and I just went
and he took the picture. Whatabout this one? That one was taken
in my bedroom and by Robert ohJuano as well. And yes, that
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was taken in my bedroom. Wedid a lot of That picture was taken
in my bedroom and I actually hadset up a little camera and I took
that myself and I just put atime on it and I just went.
That picture was taken at Tom's placeand that was about seven thirty in the
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morning. We looked very happy.It was on a Saturday morning. It
was about seven thirty in the morning. We had been like up all night
and we were sitting by the pooland I said, take a picture and
the mountains were in the background,and I had one of his friends take
the picture. Wow. Yes,yes, Angela. Did you have a
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question now? I mean, reallywas what I wanted to ask is you
know I came up modeling at seventeen, and I understood what you're talking about,
like you go to those stoot todo whatever. What I found really
interesting in the book is that,and I think that that's important for people
to know, is that you're youare a real flesh and blood person.
I know people who who are inthe adult film business and they take their
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kids to school, they buy groceries, they make them thinking co takes for
the PTA meetings, and they theyhave real lives. And I think that
that was something that came through thein your book. I mean, you
talked about the troubles you have.You know, you have children, You
had problems with you know, protectiveservices because of what they perceived you to
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be and not who you are.And I think that that was a very
important piece of the book to comeout. And like I said, having
known people who are in the businessand having known people that they were judged
by what they did, I mean, what they did, what your job
is clearly does not define who youare. And I think that that comes
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through in the book. You youwere not You were not Dominique, you
know, an adult porn star.What you are is Dominique, a woman.
And I think that came through loudand clear, and I think that
was an important point that it hasto be made. You are first and
foremost a real live person with reallife people who support you, support and
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children and family, and I thinkthat that was that to me, was
key to why this book is special. Oh, thank you so much.
Thank you. All right, Terry, before we go tell her who you
are. We got about four minutesleft. Oh okay. My name is
Terry Marie. I've been Coos andBrian for over ten years doing the celebrity
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celebrity interviews at movie premieres, atcelebrity functions. We have a blast together.
I'm also a fitness competitor. Icompete in PC. I'm going to
be doing a show in July.I took like a hiatus for about four
years, but I decided that I'mgonna do it. I want to be
inspiration for women over fifty that itdoesn't matter old you are, you can
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still be sexy and get on stageand do a Butini contact amazing. Wait
wait, wait real quick. Oneof the people I interviewed Saber table more
du Set. She's eighty one freakyears old. She just took her thirtieth
in a row Eva model Metal.Yeah, yeah, there's yeah. Started
at sixty. Yeah, I'm onlysixty five. I had anyone that can
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put on a bikini. I dida shoot maybe like and I wore a
two bikini. And now I alwayshad a problem with showing my mid sections,
but over the past year, Istarted working out and I started like
really taking care of myself like atrainer. And so that was my first
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time doing a shoot in a twopiece of babes and I'm over sixty and
I think it turned out good.I mean, it's I guess that you
said that, you know, there'sthere Actually the girls in their fifties look
better than the girls and when they'rein their twenties and somebody these shows.
But my first bikini contest was MuscleBeach. I won second place overall,
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first place in my division in themedium class height, competing against a bunch
of twenty two year olds, andit was my first thing I ever did,
and I was forty six years old, and I was like, oh,
okay, okay, and this iswhy we need so many to prove
to the rest of the world thatyou know what, life is not over,
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I'm telling you. And there's somuch more head and Dominique's got a
whole adventure in front of her too, and then straight yes, yes,
women unite, Yes, that's theright Ry what real quick? Give you?
Social media? Oh? My socialmedia is non stop Terry Marie on
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all platforms. My website is Terrymriedot com. I also dabble on art
and I'm also in yeah, inthe medical field, working or the p
ds with bracings and support for youknow, right s in athletics. So
that's an I'm I'm non stop becauseI'm just a very busy person and uh,
I'll be non stop until I'm dead. A lot of social media too.
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I'm Angela Vlenti Romeo dot com.I'm on sauch Art as Angela Romeo
on Twitter as Angela v. Romeo. Pretty much all the same. You
can find my show Colliding Worlds podcast. There's a link through that on my
on my web page and my YouTubechannel's Angela Romeo. So pretty much that's
it, no hidden adj just thename. Yeah. If you want to
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embrace the highest form of yourself,go to Jeremy vandwork dot com and dominic.
I'm d O m O n Iq u E underscore s I M
O n E underscore on Instagram.And this is my book, A Star's
Porn. This is my book andyou can purchase it on Amazon. You
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can buy it at Barnes and Noble. And I really look forward to you
all reading my book. I hada really amazing time writing it, and
I found myself writing this book.I found myself and I was able to
deal with a lot of the situationsthat I have been going through by writing
this book. So I'm really happywith this accomplishment, A Star's Porn.
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Congratulations on that. I know itcouldn't have been easy. It was.
It was hard. It was hard. I had to read, I had
to go back and relive a lotof the situations that I had gone through,
a few very frightened ones that Itried to like put behind me,
but I had to go back andactually recreate the scenes and actually put it
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down in writing, and it wasIt's pretty it was pretty frightening some of
the things that I went through.And and I think about it now and
I go, I am so luckyto be sitting here right now. I
could not have been sitting here.I put in some some very dangerous situations.
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By the grace of God. Iyou know, I had people in
my life that were that were thereprotecting me lot and friends, and I
had people that were there supporting me. So so I was very fortunate.
There's a lot of girls that arein the industry now that are not as
fortunate. There's a lot of suicidesgoing on right now, and there's not
a lot of people addressing their mentalhealth, and that's I feel like that's
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very important to address your mental healthissues and to have that outlet and be
able to have someone to talk to. Well, I'm glad you're here.
I'm glad everybody came on. They'renot always putting shows on like this.
Go out and see this book.Go out and buy a Barnes and Nobles
and on Amazon. And I alwayssay this, thank you everybody. Have
a good night tonight. I betyou tomorrow. Thank you. Someone went
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out smile, willas give them oneof yours because the world needs it.
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Brian Sebastian, movie reviews and more. And if it's Tuesday, that means
we're live. So last week,where was that last week? Last week,
I was in North Carolina. Thisweek I'm in Georgia. But it's
one of those things where I neverI had to think of where I was
for a minute there and who wascoming on with us? Well, I
actually knew, but it's one ofthose things is that I wanted to make
sure everything was okay. We gotour book. You know, Jeremy was
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coming on, Angela was coming on. I didn't care about anything else.
As long as those two people hadthe book. That's all I cared about.
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been waiting for this show. I'vesaved this show for the longest time because
I haven't done a show on adultperformers. My friends and the X rayed
industry know the lifestyle. I wantedto wait, and I'm glad I waited
because all of a sudden, mygood friend Steve Earnhard called me and said,
you know what, Brian Dominique Simon'sgot a book. I'm like,
what what's she doing? I didn'tknow she was around anymore. No,
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she's with me all the time.I'm like, well, where are you.
So for of those people don't knowwho Steve is, I have to
mention him. He was one ofthe worlds well he still is one of
the world's best hair stylists. Soeverybody from Chaer to Farah Fausted, robertal
Ricotto went on the Bond. Thelist goes on and on, and he
used to cut my hair until hemoved. And it was one of these
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things where I didn't know that hewas one of those guys who was on
the adult side doing things. Ididn't know that he hung out with Dominique
Simone. We didn't know until acouple days ago when we were talking about
stuff. So before I get intoher, I'm gonna let these two hosts
introduce themselves. And the reason whybecause they have greenway to do anything that
they want on movie reviews. More. We got to start with ladies.
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She is that actress, she isthat model, She is that producer,
she is that director, she isthat attorney, she is that host Colliding
World's podcast. She's done a lotof stuff and I love what she does.
Angela, I'll let you introduce yourself. Even though I did it,
I had to say all of thatbecause you do a lot of stuff.
Go ahead, and I also forgeta lot of things. I said what
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I said, Yeah right, No, it's I moved to Brentwood, Tennessee,
and I've been really more deep,knee deep in writing, working on
the scripts and the TV show willbe almost finished, almost finished with season
two, Have Always Here, whichis on Amazon Prime, the writing of
Gallas, a couple of scripts incompetition right now. We're winning to see
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and fingers crossed I have an opportunityto pitch two shows to a showrunner,
and I'm excited about that. AndI was excited to read Dominique's book,
and I did read it cover tocover. I downloaded it, I found
it on Kindle, and I readthe whole thing, and it was it
was fascinating to me. I know, people are the people who worked in
this industry, and and it's it'sinteresting what their stories are and the similarity
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threads and what's different about it.But ultimately, what I find fascinating is
with people's perception of they say adultstar and the reality of who they are
are two different things. And Ithought it was it was a great read
to see a human side of somebodyand I and I and I appreciated that
for the book and for lots ofother reasons, but I thought I thought
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it was I commend the book toanybody to read it. It's not you're
not going to sit there, it'snot War in Peace, You're not going
to be reading it for decades.You're going to read it, and you're
going to sit there and you're goingto go start to finish because it's going
to pull you in. And andthat that's that's very good. So I'm
happy to have the opportunity to talkwith you. And then I'm going to
toss this to back to Brian sohe can talk to Jeremy. Sojeremy.
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I had to toss this to Jeremybecause Jeremy was the first person I call.
I said, Jeremy, I thinkyou'll like this, and if he
likes it, I wanted to haveher. See I'm not even talking to
her. I'm pretending she's not here. You know. I want to have
Dominique on the show because I knewhe would dive deep in this stuff.
So he is that mindful meet mepodcast host which is becoming very successful.
He may not think it is whenI'm telling you it's a great show.
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So is at Angelus, And youknow, he is that former director of
my favorite drummer Viewghore in the worldthat Santa Clara Vanguard. He does.
He has that high altitude mindset andhe is that coach. He does a
lot of great things too. Heis also a drummer and US drummers bang
harder. Who knew half of USdrummers would become podcast hosts. He knew
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that far so does it count him. I was a chick singer in the
band. Is it all counts?It's all music. And so with that,
Jeremy, go ahead and talk aboutyourself, because I want her to
know who you are also in whatyou do. Well, goodness, gracious,
you did such a great job ofintroducing that. I don't know how
much more I actually have to sayto All of these things are true.
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I've been a licensed marriaging family therapistfor fifteen years, and I've worked with
individuals and couples that are overcoming alot of things. And I work right
now with a lot of high performingpeople who are really going deeply into finding
out who it is that they areand whether or not they want to continue
doing what it is that they've gottenhalfway through a career doing, and whether
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or not they want to change course. And I was also just recently certified
as a psychedelic therapist, and soI am really excited about where that entire
industry is going. Working with ketamineand these kinds of substances, people will
dive really deep into the concept ofwho they are in the cosmos, in
themselves and what they are beyond there, beyond their depression beyond their anxiety and
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these wonderful things. And also,Dominique, thank you so much for writing
such a wonderful, sensitive book.It was very much exactly what was said
before. It was. It wasvery, very sensitive, very humanizing.
I enjoyed so many of your storiesand your self reflection at times when you
really felt that you were on theright track and times when you felt like
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maybe that you had slid off ofthat track. And I really want to
I have so many questions about allof this. And now my lighting is
going awry as you used to bein the back, and so I'm going
to go and fix that. Andwith that, why he fixes it,
I'll take over from here because wealways have everything going. When technology works
at the works. When it doesn't, you just wing it. So she
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is that actual, she is thatmodel, She is that cool mom,
and she is that hall of fameand with over two hundred movies, I'm
gonna say this, Dominique underneath herdress and you know she was she is
wold went out And I'm happy becauseit turns out that a lot of her
friends in that book were my friendsthat we were hanging out of It turns
out that we were at the sameplaces pretty much at the same time.
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I was there during the day,she was there at night. As we
would say, there's two worlds,the day and at the night. And
I would bring the girls out,I would escort them, I would drive
them. I would to make surethat nothing happened to them. And she
tells those same things and her versionof what she went through in the book.
She is and was that most popularand that most desired woman in that
Indi adult industry. So when itcomes to superstars, she is and was
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that superstar, the one and onlyDominique Simone. All right, Dominic.
Oh, and so we had ourNonStop Terry Murrie, one of my longest
co hosts. He's been with mefor ten years. She popped off.
So Dominic, we got to talkabout your book because I was just giving
in to one of my other friendsthat he was reading it. He was
reading it quickly. What those twosaid, it is a very fast,
good read. And the things thatyou remember. Most performers don't remember anything.
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I have to remind them what theydid and they go, oh,
yeah, I remember doing that.Yeah, that's why I was there.
But for you, I don't knowhow you remember all the stuff. You
were very detailed on who you wouldwin when it was going. My hat
goes off to you. That's noteasy, especially with what you were doing
in that time, because in theeighties and nineties we were having a hell
of a time, weren't we.Oh wow, it was so much fun,
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so much fun. I had abless I don't think there'll ever be
another time like that. No,I'm going to start up with this first
question and I'll else let everybody takeit from there. Talk about Veronica Brazil,
mim Miaki, John Singleton, Tomsize More. I'll let you go
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wherever you want to go. Gofor it. Wow, I wanted to
get amazing. Okay, you're prettyinteresting. Stree from Ston. I met
him at a bachelor party for acasting director and I go to this bachelor
party and the whole cast of inLiving Colors. I mean, Bamy Fox
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is there, John Similton is theretoo short, you know, And I'm
there with me Me Miyagi, she'sthe person that I'm doing the bachelor party
with me, and so we goin. So it was so funny because
the first person I see is Jamieand I had one like a week prior
and he had asked me, oh, do I know you from somewhere?
What do you do for a livingnational houses? You know, And so
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then he sees me at this party, you know, and I'm coming out
with the baby with Memi Miyake,and so we do the show, a
girl girl show. It was like, you know, we danced and then
we did a little girl girls show. And so I don't I don't remember
if it was Jamie or someone askedme to go over to John because he
was really shy, but he wasa really big fan of mine, and
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I had done Girls in the Hoodand everything, and so I go over
and and I sit me me onon his map, and I go right
there, right there and all theguys and he was just like he was
just like so freaked out. Butthat's that's how we became friends. I
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met him at that party and webecame really good friends after that. And
he actually came on to the moviesets and it was for Sean Michaels for
a movie called Women of Color,and he was there, you know,
just to kind of check it out, and he didn't like the way to
host it up. It was like, give me the camera. So he
actually directed me through one of myscenes that I did in that movie Women's
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Color, So it was pretty fun. Yeah, And he had told me,
like when I first met him thatwhen he first got into the movie
industry, one of the things thathe wanted to do was do an adult
movie. But his first movie wasof Chorus Boys and the Hood and he
got an Oscar for that. So, you know, he was a really
really amazing guy. And I've hadI've been fortunate enough to meet a lot
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of really incredible people from being inthe industry. A lot of really nice
and incredible people talk about how youwrit wrote this book, what made you
finally write it? And and Johnwas very shy. This is whatever for
the audience in case they don't know, when when a mainstream celebrity wanted to
go to an adult shoot they weresaid, we're going for research. They
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were that's they used to They usedto say that we're going to do research.
They said the same thing for BoogieKnights, you know, when Paul
Thomas Anderson went on. Now,Paul Thomas is huge, but that was
his first film, or in hissecond film, But it was one of
those things I thought they would alwayssay that the actors. William H.
Macy was school. You know,all of them. We're going for research.
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They were all fans of the girlsand of the guys, but that
was their whole thing. And Johnwas shy, but all those guys behind
the scenes, they were all fansof yours. Yeah, he was very
shy, and we we became reallygood friends after that. All right,
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Jeremy take it away. Yeah,A good question for you, Dominique.
And again just to really really enjoyedthe book, and I wanted to get
a sense from you about so youwhat the book talks about is you grew
up in a space where you therewasn't really it felt like a lot of
time for you as a young ladyas you grew up, and it was
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really hard for you to get thekind your needs met and these different things.
And then all of a sudden,you're in Hollywood and there are all
of these opportunities for fast cash andhanging out with all of these really high
profile people that like you and wantto be around you, and these sorts
of things. And so, asa young lady who is very fresh to
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this to the movie scene, canyou talk about how easy or difficult it
was afore for you to get thingsthat you you needed. And I'm really
talking about the concept of the youngperson entering the world of glitz and glenns
and the things that can pull youin really quick, the choices that you
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have to make keeping yourself safe andthat whole world. What are kind of
tales of caution or encouragement do youhave? Well, when I came here,
I came here straight from I wasseventeen years old, straight out of
high school, and I came hereon a scholarship to go to college.
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And things didn't go the way Ihad planned, and I ended up dropping
out of school. And I wasworking as a manager in a clothing store
and just things weren't going very well. And I went over to an agent
that was advertising in a paper,you remember, the La Weekly, La
Express, And there was an adfor figure modeling. So I responded to
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that because I thought it was forBaden suit modeling. And when I went
into the office, he did havea front like he was a regular agent,
but he was actually an adult agent, and it was just kind of
amazing because when I went in there, he was I told him that I
wanted to do bathing suit modeling,and all the time he was looking for
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adult video actresses, and he kindof pulled the bait and switched on me.
You know, He's like, well, you know, until I can
get you work in this magazine,but I can get you in this magazine.
And the magazine that he told meabout was was Player's Magazine, and
he told me about Hustler Magazine.And I was just like, I can't
do anything like that. But Iended up being in a tough situation and
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going back and my first shoot wasfor Hustler Magazine. And one of the
things that I should say that girlsshould be cautious of is I responded to
an ad in a paper. Youknow, in this day and age,
that couldn't happen because so many badthings happening to girls. They're going to
places and being kidnapped in and forcedinto prostitution rings and stuff like that.
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So I was just really fortunate thatit wasn't one of those situations where I've
been in some pretty bad situations thatwere pretty scary. But I was just
very fortunate that with him, itwasn't like that I didn't go to his
home. I went to an actualoffice, and he did have a total
office setup, but it was kindof deceiving. So I would say that
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if someone's advertising that they're looking formodels, you have to be really careful
about where you go. My TeVjust came on. I was like,
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oh, good, hell, andI'm like what is so? So anyways,
you have to just be really carefulabout who you go and meet and
how you go about it because there'sa lot of danger situations that can occur.
Yes, So I would just tellthe young girls today to just be
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to just be really careful and makesure you do research. And it's probably
best to take someone with you whenyou go on something like that because you
never know. I mean, therewas years ago there was a story out
here in Los Angeles where a girlmade a photographer for a photo shoot and
they went up in the mountains andhe killed her. So it's just a
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lot of horrible things that can happen, and it's just really scary. Now.
That girl, that girl, Iknew, that girl's lived in her
most of each Yes, yes,I was. I was an acquaintance of
her. I didn't know her personally, but she was friends with a lot
of my friends, So that prettymuch traumatized me because I have actually hung
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out with her. So that wasAnd there's something you're saying, is like
back in the nineties, I mean, I've been acting off and on my
whole life, but I had hadsimilar situations happened to me where I'd gone
to interviews that were set up tobe legitimate projects that ended up to be
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you know, adult stuff that Ididn't want to do at that time.
But it was kind of seaty theway that they did that back then in
the early nineties. They would getyou in there and they did the same
thing that they did you. Ijust never went that route. I was
too shy to like do it.But I mean, there it's looking back
at it, there's some scary thingsthat could have happened to me, you
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know, just from showing up tothese auditions and you know, you think
you're doing a swimsuit thing and they'dbe like stripped down and then the next
thing you're like, okay, I'mlike you're like naked for this guy and
this, you know, for swimsuits. So I've been in those awkward situations
and it's it's just you have toI mean, I don't know, it's
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my angels were following me because nothingbad happened, but it's you know,
that is something that you do haveto warn the girls about, you know,
the young girls. Yes, youwere saying. So we wanted to
show a couple of photos before Jeremyasked a question. I love this dress.
Talk about this stress because you wentto the fashion Institute of you know,
design the god one. Wow.I don't even remember where I got
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that dress. I ordered it online. And this actually was not my first
book cover shoot. I actually hadshot with a few different photographers. And
this photographer's name is Nick sim simBlighini, and he shot a lot of
stuff with Kim Kardashian and with theKardashians, and I had seen his work
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and I was like, I reallyloved I really loved his work. So
I did my first cover shoot withhim. And once I got my published.
As my publicist she was like,Okay, I love that picture.
It's beautiful, she said. Ifyou're driving up Sunset Boulevard and you see
that picture, you think it wasjust like we're a fashion at she said,
But I want you to pop outin that photo who you are,
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And she said, and I justfeel like we can do it differently,
you know, And so she wedid the second photo shoot, which was
amazing. I had a lot offun and that dress, the green dress,
was actually my stylace. Her namewas Andrea Ward. She she picked
out the dress for the green dress, but the white dress that was my
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dress. And that was a reallyfun shoot. All of those guys were
models that had sent there there picturesin to be on the cover, and
I got to like kind of stiffthrough all these pictures of these beautiful guys,
and and we had so many submissionsand we had to, you know,
put it down to eight guys.So yes, it was this really
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fun a lot of hot guys andwe we actually did another version of my
cover where I was in a Itwas under aquarium and I was underwater,
but I didn't know how to swim. So what they did is they had
a lifeguard in there with me,and he was very very good looking,
and they had him in there withme, and so what they were going
to do there, we were tryingto do is like Beyonce Pheld where I'm
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under the water and you know,and we were trying to do something like
that. But of course I panickedwhen they put me in there, and
I was just like, oh,and so so they ended up the guy
that was the diver. They endedup using him for the one picture and
it actually turned out pretty good,and those pictures, I think that one
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picture is in the book. Butit was just really really fun to shoot
the cover and it was just alot of fun, a lot of fun.
Jeremy, you got to ask something. Yeah, in the book,
you discussed the difficulty that there wasas your children were getting a little bit
older, and the kind of difficultythat they had and kind of processing as
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they were young people of what itis that your your professions and everything like
that. Can you talk about howyour relationship with your children has has evolved
and kind of where it is now. Well, First, first of all,
I have four children, aged sixteen, two, twenty five, and
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eighteen. And it's so funny becauseI was just talking to my son earlier
today and telling him that I wasdoing this interview, and my twenty five
year old found out about me beingin the industry when he was ten.
His dad told him, and Inoticed that when after he went to high
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school, I would go to someof his events and all of his friends
would be like, Oh, who'sthat girl. Who's that girl? And
he's like, that'sk my mom,that's my mom. So that would just
kind of agitate him. But hedidn't really. He didn't have anyone that
heckoed him or bullied him or didanything. Because I was in the adult
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industry, he didn't go through that. I have a daughter that's sixteen,
and I have my son that's eighteen. We all have a really good relationship.
They're all aware of what I didfor a living. My eighteen year
old and my twenty five year oldhave been a little bit more verbal about
it. But my daughter is onlysixteen, so we haven't really had that
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conversation. But I was just talkingto my mom today and she said,
I think it's time for you tohave that conversation with her because she's in
high school, and you know,I have my Instagram and stuff, and
I don't want her friends to seethat, and I separate my dominique simone
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page from my personal page. Butstill, you know, kids are just
so the way they can advocate online, they can find out anything. So
I do worry about that, andit is something that a discussion that I'm
gonna have to have with with mydaughter, I will definitely have to have
it. And I was you know, I have a lot of friends that
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do only fans, And I wasasked, why don't you have an only
fans. Why don't you have anonly fans, And that's one of the
reasons why so Yeah, and Iimagine so, And can you talk about
also the role of empowerment, theway in which you feel like your unique
life experience has helped you feel empoweredin this world, help you feel a
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sense of accomplishment and that you knowwhat it is that you're capable of,
and what it is that you feelyou are uniquely qualified to be and to
do well. I entered this industry. I entered an industry that was predominantly
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Oh to my phone off, I'mso sorry that just happened. I entered
an industry that was predominantly white,and I was one of the first first
African American girls to kind of likego and feature at different clubs. There
was a lot of clubs that didnot want to hire me because I was
black, and then there were someclubs that said, okay, well we'll
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give her a shot. And Iactually was one of the first African American
girls to be on the cover ofABEN to feature dance at certain clubs.
So I felt like I broke themode and I opened the door for lots
of other African American women to comein. And recently I was at the
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AVN Show and I had the opportunityto meet Missy Stone, who was after
myself. I had never met her. A really nice girl and I was
able to meet a lot of girlsin the industry now a She came up
to me and said, thank youso much for what you have done.
Thank you so much for opening thedoor for me to be able to express
myself and be who I am.I feel like I accomplished a lot in
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the industry, very happy at everywith everything that I did, and I
was one of the things about mewhen I was in the industry, I
was very particular about who I shotwith, who did my makeup, how
I represented myself, my image,and that was very very important to me.
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And Missy came up to me andshe said, thank you so much
for that, for being a positiverole model, and that made me feel
really good. Made me feel reallygood. They dominate talk about your your
friendship, going to write aid hangingout with Tom's size more because you had
a great relationship with him, andI love that, and that's what people
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understand. They're the great benefits ofbeing on the adult side of things as
sort of the negative things. Butyou probably probably wouldn't have had some of
those great friendships if you hadn't donewhat she had done. Yes, Yes,
and Tom. It was so funnybecause Tom was one of my very
dear friends and I talk about himin the book, and he he was
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just a very unique person. Icould sit and talk with him for hours.
He had the most amazing stories andhe was just so amazing. There
are many times when I would bewith him for two or three days and
he'd say, Oh my goodness,I forgot I had this audition, and
he just get up and he's like, oh, I got I have an
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audition in like an hour, andhe'd read a script and he'd go in
and he get the part. Youknow. He was just he was just
amazing. It was so funny howI met him, because I met him
on a blind day. One ofmy friends called me and said, I
have this guy. He's an actor. He wants to meet you, and
his name is Tom and I toldhim. I said, oh, I
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don't really don't feel like meeting anyone, and he was like, well,
why don't you meet him? Youknow? And so he had a place
downtown and so I took one ofmy friends with me over there to meet
him. I had no clue whohe was even after meeting him, didn't
know. And so he met medown downstairs, really fancy apartment complex.
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He met me downstairs, and wewent upstairs and he started showing us like
trailers from his movies. And thenmy friend was just like, oh,
this guy's a movie star. Stilldidn't know who he was. And I
hadn't watched any of his movies untilafter we had already started dating that guys
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from the Rehab Show. And Iwas like, what Rehab show? So
I hadn't seen any of the thingsthat everyone was talking about, all of
the gossip and the things that peoplewere talking about until after I had already
started dating him and after we hadbroken up. All right, you got
to tell this story because this isthe rock and roll routes. I'm pretty
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sure in that CVS or right aidstore, because these are the days and
Terry knows this. These are thedays in Los Angeles with everybody. All
the rockers would go shopping between twoand the hours of five in the morning,
because this is when they were outpartying and doing all kinds off and
they love being with adult performers,just like those movie stars and those adult
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performers. Half the time they didn'tknow who they were. They were too
busy working. So they had thishuge fan base. And for me,
I was the only one that Iwould interview them to be friends with them,
with the adult performers, So Ikind of brought the worlds together in
a strange way, because, likeI said, she was doing it at
night. I was there during theday, and I would you know,
we talked about saving Private Ryan,which is what Tom was in, and
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plus a lot of other great things. And I remember doing that interview.
But I also remember he was hewas he was having fun, just like
Charlie. She was. Yeah,a lot of f All right, talk
about this one before Jeremy asked orsomething, And I know Angela's got to
ask something. Talk about Charlie becauseyou can help set the record straight with
Charlie. Charlie was a great guybecause you ended up going to his house
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and what happened or are you talkingabout? Yeah, he invited me up
to a party for his brother,which was supposed to be a divorced party
when he was divorcing Paula, andAmelia was very distraught about it. But
Charlie set up this party and invitedall of these set seahawk girls. But
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one of the rules that they hadthey didn't want anyone that was affiliated with
adult films. But I was ableto squeak through. And who did I
bring with me? For Veronica Brazil? Of course they were when you come
dressed very discreetly, and so youknow, they didn't want us like coming
in like you know, the boothsall out and everything like that. You
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were like, you know, dressvery nice. So you know, I
chose to wear something that was floey, and you know, and I go
and pick up Veronica and I'm inmy corvette. I go and pick her
up and she hops in the carand she has on this lace red like
kind of like negligee dress and I'mlike, oh, that's what you're wearing.
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And she's like, your baby,he says, that's how she talked.
You know, your baby, I'mwearing this. And I was like,
oh, no, you can't wearthat. So we go to the
party, and of course when wegot there, they asked her to leave
because of how she does dress,you know. But I get up there
and Charlie has all of these girlsaround him, and he's just like,
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you know, entertaining, and Istarted drinking a little bit. I didn't
feel like hanging out with him anda bunch of girls. So I go
venturing off into this house and wewere somewhere in maliboum. I go venturing
off in this house and I walkinto this room and I see this big
picture of this I thought it wasa black eye when he was Cuban.
He was, you know, verydark. And I was like, oh
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my goodness, who is that?And there's a guy in there and he
turns around and he's like, that'smy great great great grandfather. And it
was a millium and he was Iwas like, why are you up here
in this room? And and there'sa party going on downstairs. And so
we talked and stuff and ended uphanging out and I hung out there all
night, and he said he wasa very nice guy. And Charlie ended
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up taking off and going to ashirt club with about five or six girls,
and I ended up waking up thenext day with his brother and the
whole party was everything was cleared out, everything was put away, and and
we just went for a nice walkon the beach and it was it was
pretty nice. You know. Oneof the things you're talking about, a
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lot of adult performers were sounding boardsfor a lot of these celebrities, and
a lot of times when you know, you know, when you're working with
Hattie Flie or the other person thename was Alexa I think it was Aless
Yeah, Alice Manimanalis Menimalism. Yeah, that's an interesting situation because people didn't
realize a lot of fans wanted tomeet everybody, and sometimes that was the
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only way for them to meet themunless she came dancing through their town or
whatever, or they came to av and it just wasn't gonna happen.
Talk about that situation when you meetwith someone and you're just kind of you
kind of they want you for certainreasons. Talk about some of the reasons
why they desired you on besides whatyou thought they might want you for,
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well, of course, being beingin the sets industry. Even when you
even with it with my personal life. Is just like when I when I
started dating a guy, it wasthe first thing they wanted to do,
is like have a three way bwith one of my girlfriends. If I
wasn't in the dull industry, Idon't think I would have been approached with
something like that, you know.So, so being in the industry does
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carry a lot of stigmas, andpeople think that we are sitting up partying
all day, we're on drugs anddoing this, and some people are.
But on the movie sets, itwas totally professional. There was no drugs,
there was no people sitting around shootingup, drinking and boozing. It
was totally professional. The only differenceis we actually went through the motions of
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having sets and you were able tosee it. Where so right now,
on some of these shows that wewatched on TV, they're basically it's basically
softcore porn, but you're just notseeing the hard core version of it.
So I did have a lot ofinstances where people did want to meet me
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because I was dominique samong Basically that'sall that really happened when I was in
the industry. I got to inviteit to a lot of parties because there
are people that wanted to meet me. That was just part of the game.
They didn't want to meet Deirdre.They wanted to meet the porn star.
And back you know, back inthe nineties, you weren't a rock
star until you were dating a pornstar. There were so many porn stars
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that were dating rock stars and actors. Now there they kind of shy away
from that. But back in thenineties, everyone was dating porn stars.
There's Savannah and Slash, there isWow Jenna Jamison and Tito, and it
was just it was just it wasjust a cool thing to do. But
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now they kind of shy away fromit. And you because, okay,
we got to we can't go outin front of the cameras together because I
have to protect my my image,you know. And that was also one
thing that would hurt the girls becauseI could see those and I knew those
publicists. I was talking to youabout who they were and why they did
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that. They had to protect theirclients. The girls didn't always know that,
so I would explain it to them, and that's why I started bringing
them to a lot of junkens.See person that you're there. I mean
I used Nick Notey as an example. He was dating someone one of my
friends. I brought her to Ithink it was the thin red Line that
we were doing, and Nick lookedat her as like, this can't be
the same girl. She was lookingat him because he wasn't acknowledging him,
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like he can't acknowledge you. He'shere to do press for this film.
You know again, this is thedaytime, this is that, this is
not at night. And at thesame time, she rescued Nick from the
paparazzi and I was there when theywere chasing him in a white man because
this is when he couldn't drive.So it was it was a really interesting
time when what they got away withand then how easily you were discarded.
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Bill Margot, my old co host, would say, they you know,
they jerk up with you with theirleft hand and they push you away with
the right because you can't be seenwith them because of their image. Well,
what they failed to remember was whatabout the girls image? What that
does to that performer? Talk aboutthat? Yes, you know, it's
so crazy because some of the craziesttimes that I've experienced have been basically out
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with some of my celebrity friends,and I been in some pretty crazy to
see the situations, but it couldbe traumatizing a little bit, you know,
when you're dating someone and then tohave them say, well, I
can't take you to this because mymy agent let me. And I remember
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I was that was a model andI had done a shoot with him for
his portfolio and he had it inhis in his at that time, they
had the portfolio books that they wouldgo and look at when they go to
audition a picture with him and myselfin his portfolio, and his agent told
him, no, I want youto redo this shot with this model,
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and no, you cannot put herin your portfolio. And I was really
I was really hurt by that,but that's just the way it was.
And he was he was the legitimateside of the industry, so he wasn't
an adult video for former. Hewas on the great side. So you
know, I had to just kindof dealing with it. Yeah, Dominic,
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I love your openness and your willingnessto talk about, you know,
the good, bad, and theugly of everything. And I'm wondering you've
had such a long period of timein Hollywood on all different sides of Hollywood.
You come to know a lot ofdifferent people in Hollywood, and over
this long period of time, whatare the kind of unique perspectives that you
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have come to with regard to thepeople that are involved in Hollywood, but
higher profile people, people who areeither on the adult side or on the
other side of Hollywood. What haveyou learned about the people and what are
the kind of I guess, valuesor struggles that you see that are relatively
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unique to that world. It's avery it's a very lonely world. It's
a very lonely world. When you'rea celebrity, you have people that want
to be around you just because ofwho you are or what they can get
from you. And Brian is right, I was a sounding board for a
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lot of people. And I rememberedwhen I first did my first appearance in
New York as a dancer, andI talk about this in the intro of
my book, and just walking downforty second Avenue and seeing my pictures in
all of these different stores and mybox covers in these windows, and having
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people walk up to me and talkto me, and it made me feel
very uncomfortable. But at the time, I was just eighteen years old,
and I didn't realize that I wasa star. I didn't even know that
you can be a star in ourindustry until I went to New York and
saw all of that. And Iremember one time being in Hollywood being I
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went to go purchase one of mymagazines, and I remember just going into
this you know, the Hollywood Thebooks are on Hollywood and Wilcox. I
went there and you can go insideand that's where the adult session was.
So I wasn't thinking. I justwent in there and I picked up one
of my magazines that I was undercover of, and I was just really
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excited to see what the shoot lookedlike. And I was kind of and
this guy came up behind me andhe kind of whispered and he was like,
I know who you are, andit scared me. You have no
private life. You have people thatare constantly when when you're an adult industry,
you have no private life. We'rehaving sets in front of all of
these people for the world to see, so you basically don't have a private
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life. It's hard to date,it's hard to it's hard with your families.
You know, you have a lotof families that disowned their sons and
daughters because they went into the adultindustry. And I found that there are
a lot of a lot of people, other people that were face seeing the
same problems that I was facing.It's just a very lonely world. Lonely
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world, and you have to beyou have to just kind of be really
selective and and think about who's aroundyou because they really want to be around
you. Is this person with mebecause they want something from me? Is
this person with me because I canget them in the club and they don't
have to, you know, standin line. It's just you have to
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really and it's it's just really hard. It's really really hard. We got
a couple of minutes left. Angelabefore you jump in real quickly asked this,
So I'm gonna mention a couple ofnames. Robert de Niro, Prince,
go for It, Prince. Imet Prince in a nightclub. He
actually had his bodyguard come up tome and asked me if I would come
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and sit with him, and hewas amazing. I had I had on
this outfit and it's like this blackpants with this little bra, and I
had a five inch stilettos. Andof course people think I'm much taller than
I am. I'm only five five, but in five inchills, I'm like
almost its feet. And I wasstanding next to him and he was so
tiny. He was sucking on alollipop blowpop, and we were just sitting
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there. He likes to he likesthe people watch, you know, so
we were just sitting there, laughingand watching people. So much fun.
Amazing, one of the best timesfor me. Talk about this photo right
here. Wow. My photographer RobertO Leanna took that in my That was
in my bedroom, and I hadactually gotten dressed to go on location and
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shoot, and we were losing lightand he was like, we got to
shoot this now, We got toshoot this now. And so I say,
okay, I'm going to stand upagainst this wall and I just went
and he took the picture. Whatabout this one? That one was taken
in my bedroom and by Robert ohJuano as well. And yes, that
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was taken in my bedroom. Wedid a lot of That picture was taken
in my bedroom and I actually hadset up a little camera and I took
that myself and I just put atime on it and I just went.
That picture was taken at Tom's placeand that was about seven thirty in the
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morning. We looked very happy.It was on a Saturday morning. It
was about seven thirty in the morning. We had been like up all night
and we were sitting by the pooland I said, take a picture and
the mountains were in the background,and I had one of his friends take
the picture. Wow. Yes,yes, Angela. Did you have a
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question now? I mean, reallywas what I wanted to ask is you
know I came up modeling at seventeen, and I understood what you're talking about,
like you go to those stoot todo whatever. What I found really
interesting in the book is that,and I think that that's important for people
to know, is that you're youare a real flesh and blood person.
I know people who who are inthe adult film business and they take their
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kids to school, they buy groceries, they make them thinking co takes for
the PTA meetings, and they theyhave real lives. And I think that
that was something that came through thein your book. I mean, you
talked about the troubles you have.You know, you have children, You
had problems with you know, protectiveservices because of what they perceived you to
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be and not who you are.And I think that that was a very
important piece of the book to comeout. And like I said, having
known people who are in the businessand having known people that they were judged
by what they did, I mean, what they did, what your job
is clearly does not define who youare. And I think that that comes
(45:00):
through in the book. You youwere not You were not Dominique, you
know, an adult porn star.What you are is Dominique, a woman.
And I think that came through loudand clear, and I think that
was an important point that it hasto be made. You are first and
foremost a real live person with reallife people who support you, support and
(45:20):
children and family, and I thinkthat that was that to me, was
key to why this book is special. Oh, thank you so much.
Thank you. All right, Terry, before we go tell her who you
are. We got about four minutesleft. Oh okay. My name is
Terry Marie. I've been Coos andBrian for over ten years doing the celebrity
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celebrity interviews at movie premieres, atcelebrity functions. We have a blast together.
I'm also a fitness competitor. Icompete in PC. I'm going to
be doing a show in July.I took like a hiatus for about four
years, but I decided that I'mgonna do it. I want to be
inspiration for women over fifty that itdoesn't matter old you are, you can
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still be sexy and get on stageand do a Butini contact amazing. Wait
wait, wait real quick. Oneof the people I interviewed Saber table more
du Set. She's eighty one freakyears old. She just took her thirtieth
in a row Eva model Metal.Yeah, yeah, there's yeah. Started
at sixty. Yeah, I'm onlysixty five. I had anyone that can
(46:31):
put on a bikini. I dida shoot maybe like and I wore a
two bikini. And now I alwayshad a problem with showing my mid sections,
but over the past year, Istarted working out and I started like
really taking care of myself like atrainer. And so that was my first
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time doing a shoot in a twopiece of babes and I'm over sixty and
I think it turned out good.I mean, it's I guess that you
said that, you know, there'sthere Actually the girls in their fifties look
better than the girls and when they'rein their twenties and somebody these shows.
But my first bikini contest was MuscleBeach. I won second place overall,
(47:13):
first place in my division in themedium class height, competing against a bunch
of twenty two year olds, andit was my first thing I ever did,
and I was forty six years old, and I was like, oh,
okay, okay, and this iswhy we need so many to prove
to the rest of the world thatyou know what, life is not over,
(47:35):
I'm telling you. And there's somuch more head and Dominique's got a
whole adventure in front of her too, and then straight yes, yes,
women unite, Yes, that's theright Ry what real quick? Give you?
Social media? Oh? My socialmedia is non stop Terry Marie on
(47:57):
all platforms. My website is Terrymriedot com. I also dabble on art
and I'm also in yeah, inthe medical field, working or the p
ds with bracings and support for youknow, right s in athletics. So
that's an I'm I'm non stop becauseI'm just a very busy person and uh,
I'll be non stop until I'm dead. A lot of social media too.
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I'm Angela Vlenti Romeo dot com.I'm on sauch Art as Angela Romeo
on Twitter as Angela v. Romeo. Pretty much all the same. You
can find my show Colliding Worlds podcast. There's a link through that on my
on my web page and my YouTubechannel's Angela Romeo. So pretty much that's
it, no hidden adj just thename. Yeah. If you want to
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embrace the highest form of yourself,go to Jeremy vandwork dot com and dominic.
I'm d O m O n Iq u E underscore s I M
O n E underscore on Instagram.And this is my book, A Star's
Porn. This is my book andyou can purchase it on Amazon. You
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can buy it at Barnes and Noble. And I really look forward to you
all reading my book. I hada really amazing time writing it, and
I found myself writing this book.I found myself and I was able to
deal with a lot of the situationsthat I have been going through by writing
this book. So I'm really happywith this accomplishment, A Star's Porn.
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Congratulations on that. I know itcouldn't have been easy. It was.
It was hard. It was hard. I had to read, I had
to go back and relive a lotof the situations that I had gone through,
a few very frightened ones that Itried to like put behind me,
but I had to go back andactually recreate the scenes and actually put it
(49:53):
down in writing, and it wasIt's pretty it was pretty frightening some of
the things that I went through.And and I think about it now and
I go, I am so luckyto be sitting here right now. I
could not have been sitting here.I put in some some very dangerous situations.
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By the grace of God. Iyou know, I had people in
my life that were that were thereprotecting me lot and friends, and I
had people that were there supporting me. So so I was very fortunate.
There's a lot of girls that arein the industry now that are not as
fortunate. There's a lot of suicidesgoing on right now, and there's not
a lot of people addressing their mentalhealth, and that's I feel like that's
(50:37):
very important to address your mental healthissues and to have that outlet and be
able to have someone to talk to. Well, I'm glad you're here.
I'm glad everybody came on. They'renot always putting shows on like this.
Go out and see this book.Go out and buy a Barnes and Nobles
and on Amazon. And I alwayssay this, thank you everybody. Have
a good night tonight. I betyou tomorrow. Thank you. Someone went
(50:59):
out smile, willas give them oneof yours because the world needs it.
And I'm Brian Sebastian. Thank youEveryboddy and we will see you next week. Thanks
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