September 10, 2025 • 20 mins
The Traci Lords scandal of 1986 wasn’t just another tabloid headline,it was a literally shook the entire world, and with good reason!
In this episode, we dive into the shocking story that turned the adult film industry into a crime scene overnight. From FBI raids to the political fallout and all the chaos that happened in between, this case exposed flaws in the industry and led to stricter regulations that are still in place today.
If you’ve ever wondered how one scandal could reshape an entire business, this is the story. Join your host, Bridgette B. as she takes you back to the 80's.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
On this week's episode of Bridget Unfiltered,
we're going back to 1986, theyear the adult film world was
rocked by the revelation thatone of its biggest stars, Tracy
Lourdes, had been living a lie.
Overnight, the industry facedFBI raids, destroyed careers,
(00:20):
and the threat of collapse wasright in their face.
Thank you for joining me today.
My name is Bridget B., and ifyou're a recurring listener
Welcome back.
But if you're new, feel free tobinge listen all past episodes
and join the conversation.
Today's episode is going tosound a little different.
(00:42):
Normally, we dive intorelationship, culture, media, my
perspective and what I've gonethrough.
But this week, it's about twoworlds colliding, entertainment
and accountability.
When the Tracy Lord's casebroke, broke, it wasn't just
industry insiders payingattention.
(01:04):
It was the FBI, politicians, andevery major newspaper in the
country.
The scandal became a pinpoint.
It forced people in the industryand out to confront
uncomfortable questions aboutresponsibility and regulation.
Now, settle in and allow me tointroduce to you Tracy Lords.
(01:34):
Who was Tracy Lourdes?
Because to understand the weightof this story, you have to
understand the person at thecenter of it.
Tracy Lourdes was born NoraLouise Kuzma in 1968 in
Steubenville, Ohio, a workingclass town along the Ohio River.
It was a place built on steelmills and small town life, far
(01:59):
away from the bright lights ofLos Angeles.
By most accounts, Nora'schildhood was sadly unstable.
Her parents divorced and herearly years were just marked by
instability and restlessness.
Those experiences just seemed togive her both resilience and
(02:20):
this undeniable drive toreinvent herself.
In her teens, she moved with hermom and sis to California.
Suddenly, she was in the land ofsurfing and Hollywood and, of
course, the beautiful, endlesssun we all love of Cali.
It was a world that justcouldn't have been more
(02:41):
different than Ohio.
California was where Nora becameTracy.
The name was bold, glamorous,unforgettable.
It was her way of writing a newstory And the world?
The world was about to takenotice.
(03:02):
On screen.
Tracy Lourdes had such apresence and it set her apart.
She had platinum blonde hair,porcelain skin, striking eyes
that just carried this innocenceand intensity all at the same
time.
Quite actually reminds me ofPamela Anderson when she
(03:24):
started.
She was exactly the same, thatjust innocent and those eyes,
just beautiful.
She was magnetic, the kind ofperformer who could capture the
attention the most.
moment she entered into frameher charisma wasn't just about
looks it was about confidencebecause even at a young age
(03:46):
Tracy projected an energy thatmade audiences believe she was a
star Offscreen, she wasdescribed by peers as, quote,
funny, sharp, and determined.
She had ambition that wentbeyond just making a name for
herself.
She wanted reinvention.
(04:06):
She wanted transformation.
And she wasn't afraid to takethe bold step to get there.
That determination is part ofwhat made her career rise so
fast.
And also, what made her downfallhit so hard.
So when we do talk about thisscandal and...
(04:30):
The woman in it, Tracy Lord, isnot just a legal case.
It's a story of the young womanfrom Steubenville, Ohio, who
stepped into Hollywood with herbeauty, charisma, and the drive.
A drive that I can relate tovery much.
And whose choice of deceivingothers created one of the most
(04:53):
notorious scandals the industryhas ever faced.
Keep that image in your mind aswe move forward.
The girl from Steubenville,Ohio, who reinvented herself
into a superstar and in doing sochanged the course of an entire
business.
(05:14):
The adult film industry in theearly 1980s was booming.
VHS tapes were in almost everyhousehold and the rise of home
video made adult entertainmenteven more accessible and more
profitable than ever before.
Studios were pumping out filmsquickly, performers were gaining
celebrity status, and thegovernment was watching closely.
(05:35):
This was the Reagan era, thedecade of family values,
politics, and the so-calledmoral majority.
The adult industry was oftenpainted as this villain, but in
reality, it was thriving withstars earning name recognition
(05:56):
far beyond adult audience.
Amid this scene was a youngperformer named Tracy Lord, who
skyrocketed to fame.
She had the look, the charisma,the screen presence that made
her the household name she was.
And in broader pop culture, Shewas even a guest star in one of
(06:18):
the best shows ever made,Married with Children, starring
Ed O'Neill from Modern Family.
If you haven't seen, you must goback to the archives of, I think
it's Peacock or Hulu or evenAmazon Prime and watch Married
with Children.
I think it was, it didn't getits flowers because they didn't
even get a finale, a properfinale.
(06:41):
But that show introduced theworld to Pamela Anderson as well
as Tracy Lourdes.
But behind the rising star powerof Tracy, there was a secret
that would soon explode into oneof the biggest scandals in
entertainment history.
In July of 1986, majornewspapers like the Los Angeles
(07:05):
Times, the Washington Post, andthe New York Times broke the
story that nearly every film shehad appeared in was illegal to
distribute because Tracy was infact underage during the
majority of her career.
The headlines were blunt and theheadlines were sensational.
(07:26):
Porn star, underage, FBIinvestigates adult industry
and...
X-rated films seized nationwide.
Almost overnight, the FBI-rateddistributors' tapes were pulled
from video store shelves and theentire adult film business was
thrust under a spotlight ofcriminal liability.
(07:49):
What had seemed like themeteoric rise of a new icon was
now being retold as a culturaland legal crisis that forced the
public, the press andpoliticians to question, how
could this have happened in thefirst place?
To put it into perspective,nearly the entire 1980s catalog
(08:13):
of adult VHS tapes that featuredLords instantly became
contraband.
Mm-mm, no, no, can't.
throwing it out.
Stores rushed to pull titlesfrom their shelves.
Distributors trying to destroythese tapes as quickly as
possible.
And the entire productioncompany that shot her, or
(08:34):
companies really, worried thatthey would be shut down.
And the politicians seized themoment.
They loved it.
Headlines screaming.
And within days, the scandalwasn't just a niche of news in
adult industry.
Oh no, it went mainstream news.
(08:56):
It appeared on all the frontpages in the TV broadcasts
across America.
Quick break in the story.
If you're enjoying today'sepisode, make sure you're
following along with me onInstagram at Bridget Unfiltered
for behind the scenes contentand updates.
And don't forget, you can divedeeper into topics like this one
(09:17):
over on my blog atwww.bridgetunfiltered.com.
I'll leave all the links for youright in the episode description
so they're easy to find.
Alright, let's get back into it.
What happened next would foreveralter the industry.
The legal system faced adilemma.
Most of the studios andproducers who had worked with
(09:40):
Tracy had not known her realage.
Why?
Because Tracy Lourdes had usedfalse IDs.
And on paper, everything seemedfine.
For most of us, I'm surelistening have gone through a
situation.
Let's just say you're at a bar,ladies.
You're at a bar or a restauranta guy comes up to you and starts
(10:03):
talking to you in your ear andsaying how beautiful you are and
how he would love to take youout on a date.
And you say, okay, you give himyour number, but he's married.
But you didn't know that becausenot only did he not tell you,
but he wasn't wearing a weddingring.
What are we going to do?
Walk around assuming everyone'smarried?
At this point, might as well.
(10:24):
So prosecutors realized thatthere was no easy way to convict
the industry players like thedistributors, the studios, the
directors, without acknowledgingwhere the source of this
deception came from.
In the end, Tracy Lourdesherself avoided prosecution.
(10:47):
The government focused itsenergy towards the structural
failure of the adult industry,its lack of regulation, and the
ease with which false IDs couldbe used to bypass age
verification.
The result was sweepingcrackdown.
The scandal directly led tostricter federal laws requiring
(11:11):
detailed record-keeping and ageverification for all performers.
To this day, adult producers inthe United States must comply
with what's known as 2257regulations, a direct outcome
(11:32):
from this scandal.
The industry was permanentlyreshaped.
Studios became more cautious,mainstream crossover
opportunities for adult starsdried up, and the stigma around
the business grew even heavier.
For those of of you who havebeen listening to the show since
(11:53):
inception can possiblyunderstand now why I chose to
discuss this scandal.
It's obvious that the underlyingtheme of this scandal has based
really why even I decided toenter the adult industry in the
beginning.
Because when I entered about, Iwas 27, so about 12 years ago, I
(12:15):
was pleasantly surprised by howdirect and forward the industry
was with age verification beingthe number one necessity.
The basics of being on set, notbeing able to even step foot in
the makeup chair without firstsigning such 2257 regulation
(12:38):
contract that we all have is thereason why I said, okay, this is
something I can do because I'man adult.
Whatever I choose to do at themoment is my own doing.
It's no one's business.
And I can, you know, I can rockwith this.
Which was also one of thereasons why I stopped performing
(12:59):
a couple of years ago becausethe industry had taken a change.
The industry had taken a changefrom studio forward work to an
industry finding alternativeways to create content without
physically being on a set thatrequired such discipline such
(13:22):
preparedness and such passionfor something that most don't
take us seriously.
But for some of us, like myself,we did take it seriously.
I come from the mindset thateverything you do, do it well,
regardless, and put your bestfoot forward.
(13:48):
This case wasn't just a legalscandal.
It was a cultural moment.
For years afterward, the nameTracy Lourdes was synonymous
with the dangers of the adultindustry.
Tabloids sensationalized thestory, talk shows dissected it,
and for the public, itreinforced the belief that the
(14:11):
adult world was a place ofshadows, scandal, and
exploitation.
But beneath the headlines, italso raised important questions.
Who bears responsibility when aperformer lies about their age?
Should studios be punished forfailing to detect a forged ID?
(14:33):
And what does justice look likewhen the entire system is
implicated?
These questions haunted theindustry for decades.
Even today, when you heardebates about performer
protections, age verificationonline, or the role that such
(14:54):
platforms have in adult content,you can trace the conversation
right back to 1986.
And nearly 40 years later, theTracy Lord scandal remains one
of the most infamous chapters inentertainment history.
It reshaped laws, it endedcareers, and altered the
(15:18):
trajectory of the adultbusiness.
And it's a reminder that theentertainment we consume doesn't
exist in this bubble.
Behind every headline, there arelegal systems and real people
affected.
True crime stories often endwith a solved case, a
(15:40):
conviction, or closure.
But this one ends differently.
Because this one ends withreform.
It forced the industry tochange.
And it ends with a legacy thatcontinues to influence how we
think about entertainment,consent, and responsibility.
(16:00):
So what do I think?
I think that what I've alwaysbelieved to be true, that the
bearing of responsibility beginsat home.
Mom and dad...
with their child should be theones responsible for policing
what they're watching, whatthey're getting their hands on,
(16:23):
what they're doing.
Now, No judgment.
I'm not a parent myself.
But as someone who was in theadult industry, never would I
want my work to end up in thehands of anyone under the age of
adult consent.
Now, the thing is, is that whatis adult?
(16:45):
There's 50-year-olds who actlike they're 12.
There's 40-year-olds who actlike they're 21, you know?
And The most one can do is worryabout themselves.
So I know that I was in thepresence of an industry that
(17:06):
took age verification veryseriously.
I wasn't able to step foot intothe makeup chair until all of
that was done.
The responsibility of my healthlanded on me.
So if I didn't go get tested andmake sure I was completely
clean, I wasn't able to work,which is why it's bizarre that
(17:29):
so many people assuming pornstars being dirty, et cetera, is
like, no, we have to get testedevery two weeks.
But then when the shift of theentertainment industry changed
within the last five years, Inoticed that the studios weren't
doing these big blockbustersthat I enjoyed being a part of.
(17:53):
I am someone who enjoys ascript.
I enjoy being on set.
I don't mind working for 30hours.
And when I noticed that that wasshifting, it was my time to
evolve so that I can be morecreative, etc., which is where
I'm at now.
I hope that Tracy Lourdes foundwhat she was looking for because
(18:16):
I know that researching this, Ivery much related to her, you
know, wanting to be part of theHollywood lights and reinvent
herself.
And it hit home and I was happyto be able to bring this out and
sort of share it with you guys.
There's a fine line betweenmoral compass and policing of
(18:37):
adult activities.
If you're an adult, of soundmind and tax paying, et cetera,
and you live in the USA, youhave your rights.
You have your rights to beentertained as you wish within
reason, obviously.
And I've said that they reallyneed to raise the adult age from
18 to 21 because the 18-year-oldnowadays is not the same
(19:01):
18-year-old from even 10 yearsago.
So if I had anything to say withit, I would 100% say adult, 21
over.
Some of the things that matteredto me 10 years ago just don't
matter anymore.
And that just happens withexperience, but I'm glad I went
through it.
I'm glad.
And I hope that I was able toleave a little bit of a legacy
(19:25):
myself.
Well, that's it, you guys.
Thank you so much for listeningto this special episode of
Bridget Unfiltered.
The Tracy Lord scandal wasn'tjust a moment of shock.
It was a turning point.
And it's proof that one case,one person, one scandal can
(19:48):
ripple across culture, politics,and business, leaving footprints
that we still see today.
If you found this storythought-provoking, consider
subscribing, leaving a review,and sharing this episode with a
friend.
It's an exciting time forBridget Unfiltered.
(20:11):
Can't wait to share with you allthe good stuff that's happening.
And it's all because of youguys.
So until next time.
UNKNOWN (20:20):
Bye.
On this week's episode of Bridget Unfiltered,
we're going back to 1986, theyear the adult film world was
rocked by the revelation thatone of its biggest stars, Tracy
Lourdes, had been living a lie.
Overnight, the industry facedFBI raids, destroyed careers,
(00:20):
and the threat of collapse wasright in their face.
Thank you for joining me today.
My name is Bridget B., and ifyou're a recurring listener
Welcome back.
But if you're new, feel free tobinge listen all past episodes
and join the conversation.
Today's episode is going tosound a little different.
(00:42):
Normally, we dive intorelationship, culture, media, my
perspective and what I've gonethrough.
But this week, it's about twoworlds colliding, entertainment
and accountability.
When the Tracy Lord's casebroke, broke, it wasn't just
industry insiders payingattention.
(01:04):
It was the FBI, politicians, andevery major newspaper in the
country.
The scandal became a pinpoint.
It forced people in the industryand out to confront
uncomfortable questions aboutresponsibility and regulation.
Now, settle in and allow me tointroduce to you Tracy Lords.
(01:34):
Who was Tracy Lourdes?
Because to understand the weightof this story, you have to
understand the person at thecenter of it.
Tracy Lourdes was born NoraLouise Kuzma in 1968 in
Steubenville, Ohio, a workingclass town along the Ohio River.
It was a place built on steelmills and small town life, far
(01:59):
away from the bright lights ofLos Angeles.
By most accounts, Nora'schildhood was sadly unstable.
Her parents divorced and herearly years were just marked by
instability and restlessness.
Those experiences just seemed togive her both resilience and
(02:20):
this undeniable drive toreinvent herself.
In her teens, she moved with hermom and sis to California.
Suddenly, she was in the land ofsurfing and Hollywood and, of
course, the beautiful, endlesssun we all love of Cali.
It was a world that justcouldn't have been more
(02:41):
different than Ohio.
California was where Nora becameTracy.
The name was bold, glamorous,unforgettable.
It was her way of writing a newstory And the world?
The world was about to takenotice.
(03:02):
On screen.
Tracy Lourdes had such apresence and it set her apart.
She had platinum blonde hair,porcelain skin, striking eyes
that just carried this innocenceand intensity all at the same
time.
Quite actually reminds me ofPamela Anderson when she
(03:24):
started.
She was exactly the same, thatjust innocent and those eyes,
just beautiful.
She was magnetic, the kind ofperformer who could capture the
attention the most.
moment she entered into frameher charisma wasn't just about
looks it was about confidencebecause even at a young age
(03:46):
Tracy projected an energy thatmade audiences believe she was a
star Offscreen, she wasdescribed by peers as, quote,
funny, sharp, and determined.
She had ambition that wentbeyond just making a name for
herself.
She wanted reinvention.
(04:06):
She wanted transformation.
And she wasn't afraid to takethe bold step to get there.
That determination is part ofwhat made her career rise so
fast.
And also, what made her downfallhit so hard.
So when we do talk about thisscandal and...
(04:30):
The woman in it, Tracy Lord, isnot just a legal case.
It's a story of the young womanfrom Steubenville, Ohio, who
stepped into Hollywood with herbeauty, charisma, and the drive.
A drive that I can relate tovery much.
And whose choice of deceivingothers created one of the most
(04:53):
notorious scandals the industryhas ever faced.
Keep that image in your mind aswe move forward.
The girl from Steubenville,Ohio, who reinvented herself
into a superstar and in doing sochanged the course of an entire
business.
(05:14):
The adult film industry in theearly 1980s was booming.
VHS tapes were in almost everyhousehold and the rise of home
video made adult entertainmenteven more accessible and more
profitable than ever before.
Studios were pumping out filmsquickly, performers were gaining
celebrity status, and thegovernment was watching closely.
(05:35):
This was the Reagan era, thedecade of family values,
politics, and the so-calledmoral majority.
The adult industry was oftenpainted as this villain, but in
reality, it was thriving withstars earning name recognition
(05:56):
far beyond adult audience.
Amid this scene was a youngperformer named Tracy Lord, who
skyrocketed to fame.
She had the look, the charisma,the screen presence that made
her the household name she was.
And in broader pop culture, Shewas even a guest star in one of
(06:18):
the best shows ever made,Married with Children, starring
Ed O'Neill from Modern Family.
If you haven't seen, you must goback to the archives of, I think
it's Peacock or Hulu or evenAmazon Prime and watch Married
with Children.
I think it was, it didn't getits flowers because they didn't
even get a finale, a properfinale.
(06:41):
But that show introduced theworld to Pamela Anderson as well
as Tracy Lourdes.
But behind the rising star powerof Tracy, there was a secret
that would soon explode into oneof the biggest scandals in
entertainment history.
In July of 1986, majornewspapers like the Los Angeles
(07:05):
Times, the Washington Post, andthe New York Times broke the
story that nearly every film shehad appeared in was illegal to
distribute because Tracy was infact underage during the
majority of her career.
The headlines were blunt and theheadlines were sensational.
(07:26):
Porn star, underage, FBIinvestigates adult industry
and...
X-rated films seized nationwide.
Almost overnight, the FBI-rateddistributors' tapes were pulled
from video store shelves and theentire adult film business was
thrust under a spotlight ofcriminal liability.
(07:49):
What had seemed like themeteoric rise of a new icon was
now being retold as a culturaland legal crisis that forced the
public, the press andpoliticians to question, how
could this have happened in thefirst place?
To put it into perspective,nearly the entire 1980s catalog
(08:13):
of adult VHS tapes that featuredLords instantly became
contraband.
Mm-mm, no, no, can't.
throwing it out.
Stores rushed to pull titlesfrom their shelves.
Distributors trying to destroythese tapes as quickly as
possible.
And the entire productioncompany that shot her, or
(08:34):
companies really, worried thatthey would be shut down.
And the politicians seized themoment.
They loved it.
Headlines screaming.
And within days, the scandalwasn't just a niche of news in
adult industry.
Oh no, it went mainstream news.
(08:56):
It appeared on all the frontpages in the TV broadcasts
across America.
Quick break in the story.
If you're enjoying today'sepisode, make sure you're
following along with me onInstagram at Bridget Unfiltered
for behind the scenes contentand updates.
And don't forget, you can divedeeper into topics like this one
(09:17):
over on my blog atwww.bridgetunfiltered.com.
I'll leave all the links for youright in the episode description
so they're easy to find.
Alright, let's get back into it.
What happened next would foreveralter the industry.
The legal system faced adilemma.
Most of the studios andproducers who had worked with
(09:40):
Tracy had not known her realage.
Why?
Because Tracy Lourdes had usedfalse IDs.
And on paper, everything seemedfine.
For most of us, I'm surelistening have gone through a
situation.
Let's just say you're at a bar,ladies.
You're at a bar or a restauranta guy comes up to you and starts
(10:03):
talking to you in your ear andsaying how beautiful you are and
how he would love to take youout on a date.
And you say, okay, you give himyour number, but he's married.
But you didn't know that becausenot only did he not tell you,
but he wasn't wearing a weddingring.
What are we going to do?
Walk around assuming everyone'smarried?
At this point, might as well.
(10:24):
So prosecutors realized thatthere was no easy way to convict
the industry players like thedistributors, the studios, the
directors, without acknowledgingwhere the source of this
deception came from.
In the end, Tracy Lourdesherself avoided prosecution.
(10:47):
The government focused itsenergy towards the structural
failure of the adult industry,its lack of regulation, and the
ease with which false IDs couldbe used to bypass age
verification.
The result was sweepingcrackdown.
The scandal directly led tostricter federal laws requiring
(11:11):
detailed record-keeping and ageverification for all performers.
To this day, adult producers inthe United States must comply
with what's known as 2257regulations, a direct outcome
(11:32):
from this scandal.
The industry was permanentlyreshaped.
Studios became more cautious,mainstream crossover
opportunities for adult starsdried up, and the stigma around
the business grew even heavier.
For those of of you who havebeen listening to the show since
(11:53):
inception can possiblyunderstand now why I chose to
discuss this scandal.
It's obvious that the underlyingtheme of this scandal has based
really why even I decided toenter the adult industry in the
beginning.
Because when I entered about, Iwas 27, so about 12 years ago, I
(12:15):
was pleasantly surprised by howdirect and forward the industry
was with age verification beingthe number one necessity.
The basics of being on set, notbeing able to even step foot in
the makeup chair without firstsigning such 2257 regulation
(12:38):
contract that we all have is thereason why I said, okay, this is
something I can do because I'man adult.
Whatever I choose to do at themoment is my own doing.
It's no one's business.
And I can, you know, I can rockwith this.
Which was also one of thereasons why I stopped performing
(12:59):
a couple of years ago becausethe industry had taken a change.
The industry had taken a changefrom studio forward work to an
industry finding alternativeways to create content without
physically being on a set thatrequired such discipline such
(13:22):
preparedness and such passionfor something that most don't
take us seriously.
But for some of us, like myself,we did take it seriously.
I come from the mindset thateverything you do, do it well,
regardless, and put your bestfoot forward.
(13:48):
This case wasn't just a legalscandal.
It was a cultural moment.
For years afterward, the nameTracy Lourdes was synonymous
with the dangers of the adultindustry.
Tabloids sensationalized thestory, talk shows dissected it,
and for the public, itreinforced the belief that the
(14:11):
adult world was a place ofshadows, scandal, and
exploitation.
But beneath the headlines, italso raised important questions.
Who bears responsibility when aperformer lies about their age?
Should studios be punished forfailing to detect a forged ID?
(14:33):
And what does justice look likewhen the entire system is
implicated?
These questions haunted theindustry for decades.
Even today, when you heardebates about performer
protections, age verificationonline, or the role that such
(14:54):
platforms have in adult content,you can trace the conversation
right back to 1986.
And nearly 40 years later, theTracy Lord scandal remains one
of the most infamous chapters inentertainment history.
It reshaped laws, it endedcareers, and altered the
(15:18):
trajectory of the adultbusiness.
And it's a reminder that theentertainment we consume doesn't
exist in this bubble.
Behind every headline, there arelegal systems and real people
affected.
True crime stories often endwith a solved case, a
(15:40):
conviction, or closure.
But this one ends differently.
Because this one ends withreform.
It forced the industry tochange.
And it ends with a legacy thatcontinues to influence how we
think about entertainment,consent, and responsibility.
(16:00):
So what do I think?
I think that what I've alwaysbelieved to be true, that the
bearing of responsibility beginsat home.
Mom and dad...
with their child should be theones responsible for policing
what they're watching, whatthey're getting their hands on,
(16:23):
what they're doing.
Now, No judgment.
I'm not a parent myself.
But as someone who was in theadult industry, never would I
want my work to end up in thehands of anyone under the age of
adult consent.
Now, the thing is, is that whatis adult?
(16:45):
There's 50-year-olds who actlike they're 12.
There's 40-year-olds who actlike they're 21, you know?
And The most one can do is worryabout themselves.
So I know that I was in thepresence of an industry that
(17:06):
took age verification veryseriously.
I wasn't able to step foot intothe makeup chair until all of
that was done.
The responsibility of my healthlanded on me.
So if I didn't go get tested andmake sure I was completely
clean, I wasn't able to work,which is why it's bizarre that
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so many people assuming pornstars being dirty, et cetera, is
like, no, we have to get testedevery two weeks.
But then when the shift of theentertainment industry changed
within the last five years, Inoticed that the studios weren't
doing these big blockbustersthat I enjoyed being a part of.
(17:53):
I am someone who enjoys ascript.
I enjoy being on set.
I don't mind working for 30hours.
And when I noticed that that wasshifting, it was my time to
evolve so that I can be morecreative, etc., which is where
I'm at now.
I hope that Tracy Lourdes foundwhat she was looking for because
(18:16):
I know that researching this, Ivery much related to her, you
know, wanting to be part of theHollywood lights and reinvent
herself.
And it hit home and I was happyto be able to bring this out and
sort of share it with you guys.
There's a fine line betweenmoral compass and policing of
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adult activities.
If you're an adult, of soundmind and tax paying, et cetera,
and you live in the USA, youhave your rights.
You have your rights to beentertained as you wish within
reason, obviously.
And I've said that they reallyneed to raise the adult age from
18 to 21 because the 18-year-oldnowadays is not the same
(19:01):
18-year-old from even 10 yearsago.
So if I had anything to say withit, I would 100% say adult, 21
over.
Some of the things that matteredto me 10 years ago just don't
matter anymore.
And that just happens withexperience, but I'm glad I went
through it.
I'm glad.
And I hope that I was able toleave a little bit of a legacy
(19:25):
myself.
Well, that's it, you guys.
Thank you so much for listeningto this special episode of
Bridget Unfiltered.
The Tracy Lord scandal wasn'tjust a moment of shock.
It was a turning point.
And it's proof that one case,one person, one scandal can
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ripple across culture, politics,and business, leaving footprints
that we still see today.
If you found this storythought-provoking, consider
subscribing, leaving a review,and sharing this episode with a
friend.
It's an exciting time forBridget Unfiltered.
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Can't wait to share with you allthe good stuff that's happening.
And it's all because of youguys.
So until next time.
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