OP/ED by Rev Sand
photo by ingmar vermin
I am writing this with the hope that Tanner Mayes finally takes responsibility for her own actions and gets some help. She acts like a spoiled little child, and once people hear the truth once about her completely unacceptable behavior I am hopeful that she will be forced to change for the better.
I have worked with Tanner many times and watching her rapid downfall is quite disturbing. She just turned 20 and her looks are already starting to go. She has become harder and harder to manage on set. A few weeks ago when I was on set for our fuckafan.com shoot for she punched one of the girls in the breast several times. The only reason I can think of why she did this is that – the other girl is very pretty – Tanner felt threatened by her as a result of insecurity and immaturity. I also heard about her behavior at the Internext show in Florida last year where she assaulted the production manager of yet another company. In addition she has talked about on twitter that she has pending charges in the State of Florida for assaulting a police officer, and that she needs to return to Florida this week to handle them. These are in addition to other sorted stories I have witnessed and heard about regarding her.
Tanner got to the Lesbian Bukkake at 10 am, over two hours late. She was booked to be one of the girls that squirts in two scenes, and gets squirted on, in the third and final scene. She got there AFTER pretty-girls were shot she kept rambling about how she walked off a New Sensation set earlier that morning, the truth is she walked off a New Sensations set the day before, she has stated on twitter.
Tanner did the first scene without much incidence besides a few incoherent outbursts. In the second scene she was supposed to squirt on Laci Lane. She was touching herself when Laci asked her to stop because she had some an open sore on her inner thigh, which Tanner started yelling how it was chaffing. She went off at everyone yelling that she gets everyone chaffing. She said this is what happens with wet jeans when one pees their pants or waers too short of wet shorts, which again did not make much sense to me. Anyways, Tanner did not take kindly to Laci’s request and walked off the set threatening to leave the studio completely and did not return to finish the scene. Jim Powers, the director, calmed her down and she agreed to do the third scene.
The third scene started off fine, as Tanner seemed in her element since she was the center of attention. In the middle of the third scene she started yelling at Jim, saying he didn’t know what he was doing. She said that he was taking too long to shoot the scene and how nobody would tell her what time it was. She kept saying it was the second scene she was canceling that day, yelling about herself in third person, and demanding a kill fee, even though she was the one walking off the set. I followed her around and she got angrier and angrier. She alternate between yelling at me, and having full dialogue about herself on camera. She seemed to enjoy the attention her outburst caused. She went off on everyone on set: Jim Powers, Johnny Thrust, the staff of Van Nuys studio, and myself. She got so angry I was filming her that she punched me, hitting the camera. Then she got real angry and slammed the monitor at the front desk onto the floor breaking it.
Outside in front of the studio she chased me and punched me hitting the camera again, but not before she bad mouthed New Sensations, Wicked, and every other porn company she could name and the porn business in general. We have all of this on tape and we will be hopefully putting it online, I hope once Tanner she’s how she acts she changes her ways. Tanner can be a real sweet girl, but she needs serious help in controlling her anger (and possible substance) issues. Once she reads this I truly hope she looks deep inside herself and comes to grip with her inner rage and gets much needed help.
Damaging studio property, assaulting me and others is not acceptable behavior, and she is going to find this out the hard way if she doesn’t change.
Wow very powerful, I hope she gets the help she needs. I also hope that maybe directors take notice and stop using her.
I hope she gets help too. I had read her Twitter and wondered what was going on.
Well it looks like to me she will never change. TANNER MAYES(fake name of course) aka Courtney Glover or Courtney Gayle Glover on Facebook is now back in adrian. Strung out on Smoking METH and CRACK. Some people suspected substance use with her, I am confirming it with you! SHE IS COMPLETELY SMOKED OUT!!She is staying in a dope house at 418 E. CHURCH ST. ADRIAN, MI 49221 that has been raided 3 times for drugs drug/sales about 2 1/2 – 3 years ago. She stays there with a man Mark Sylvertooth who has done almost 19 yrs. In prison for 2nd degree murder .killed william thompson in Detroit, MI. 1988/89. COURTNEY..gone downhill, face looks horrible, deep pits, scars, always broke out, picks it when she tweaks from getting high all day all night. On another note , a man went to have sex with her and seen a herpes outbreak in her vaginal area and then refused to have sex w/ her. He is 100% credible. He would not lie. My concern is has she spread this STD herpes or herpes virus to other pornstars? What else could she be spreading? Here in ADRIAN , MI right now she is tricking/prostituting for dope money to get her next fix. She is out of her mind and doesn’t even look the same. Whoever is working with her doing films now or considering her for future ones ,Please let them know.
I bet she has chilhood issues and she is waking up. All the rage inside is comming out. The drugs no longer are working, the anger that she poured on herself by doing degrading porn (JM Bukkakes?) is now being focused outward.
I hope she gets help too and quits the industry. The industry feeds her anger. She should stop taking cocks for pay.
She needs to get of the meth.
I don’t claim to know anyone in the ”porn world” but I seriously doubt anyone in it will raise a finger to help this woman before it’s too late. There will always be some lowlife ”director” who will crawl out from under a rock and offer her work in ”cum honeys 18” or whatever. I hope this woman gets the help she needs by real professionals who can treat her.
Without sounding harsh or uncaring, since when is it the responsibility of adult movie directors to become social workers? As a producer and director of a very busy studio I have very little time to get to know the talent past a few girls here and there and since most directors aren’t in a position to offer advice or counsel to any troubled girl or more specifically in a position where the girl would even listen to any advice offered makes it very difficult to help anyone. What we can do is once a problem makes the rounds or is made public decide not to hire the talent which is a business decision not a social decision that X-Play has made on numerous occasions. When was the last time Sinners Delight helped a bum out on the street? Did you sit down with them and ask if they needed mental health counseling or a ride or a few hundred bucks? Of course not. Expecting a director/producer to dive into a stranger’s life is not a reasonable expectation. A wonderful thought perhaps in an ideal world but not very realistic and that doesn’t make me or any other director less than human.
You are harsh and uncaring. But look at who I’m talking to.
If you want a good product put out, you have to take care of the performers and not treat them worse than a prisoner of war. You’re fucking worse than a terrorist! At least we know who they are unlike the assholes in the adult industry who put on their fake smiles saying how you’re all a big family and care about everyone.
But look at whose set that was. A Jim Powers set and a Jeff Steward production. After they got through abusing, using, and humiliating Kylie Ireland, can anyone take them seriously? She is a legend after all and she was treated like shit the last shoot she did for them.
If this was the real world, you would be up your ass in lawsuits for how badly these performers are treated. But many of these women are used to being abused and have been preconditioned to believe it’s their destiny, they deserve it, and it’s their fault. You know many of these women have problems but you don’t care because there’s another girl younger, prettier, and less expensive waiting around the corner.
Don’t hire 20-year-old girls, don’t hire girls with known problems, and instead hire women that have been in the industry long enough to know what they want and how they want their careers to be handled. Everyone is blaming this girl instead of the people in the industry that lead her to be where she is now. Everyone is blaming her and now she’ll be blacklisted instead of the men in the industry that caused a lot of her problems.
I know she probably had a lot of her issues before porn. But you all knew that before hiring her. That’s why you keep on hiring them because they will be the ones that “are willing” to do the most degrading things giving you all the product you want. Most of the porn done today has women with the look of death in their eyes. Those are the women that will do what you want at the bottom scale rate because they don’t know any better and probably need the money for their next fix.
Another girl run out of porn but there is another girl waiting around the corner to take her place. You wouldn’t do this to your daughters …. or would you?
What an idiot….. BTW, if she got upset on one of those stupid PEEING sets then who cares about her. If she takes cocks up her ass, I might start to give a shit.
Relax Darrah, they are not our daughters!
But is a performer is coming wasted to a set, pay kill fees to her and hire another whore. Whores are a dime a dozen in So Cal these days.
The only odd thing is thay many porners prouldy say that they are not out sister keepers (Nina Hartley words) and them are proud Democrats!
So I guess goverment is good and caring as long as Its cares for people in other industries that are not porn.
The Libertarian position is far more consistent.
Tanner Mayes looks like Casey Parker`s brunnette sister!
Uh, Darrah…
Please pull your head out of your ass! Do you need some help?
You’re attacking the wrong director. Will Ryder doesn’t shoot “degrading whores daily” (a proud staple of JM productions) porn, just wholesome (as some holes getting plowed can be) smut, fun for the whole family (just not all at once… that would be weird…)…
But regardless would JM be responsible for her assaulting production managers or police officers?
And of course if no one was buying their movies they couldn’t keep making them… but that’s another issue…
Earth to Darrah, are we coming through?… Will is simply responding to Sinner’s insinuation that it should be, say a director’s responsibility to help wayward souls behaving badly. Perhaps, you could urge or argue it should be the responsibility of the specific directors who traumatize her to pay for therapy or at least hold her hand and lend a shoulder afterward… Give em a big hug after she cleans up. But JM and Will are not in the business to council women, only shoot them getting molested on camera to placate the masses.
Will Ryder makes porn to laugh and jerk off to, and if it is Producer’s fault when whores behave badly he’ll be the last to be shut down.
Will Ryder worse than a terrorist? Yeah, and I live in a city 20 miles away from the nearest cross streets. You also support retarded psychopaths as long as they’re female and as emotional as yourself.
It’s good to see that some people wish the best for this disturbed girl. It’s also good that Max is in jail, otherwise he’d probably get a hold of her.
I read her reply to this on another site and really think that the Jesus crowd should come get her. Seriously. Descend on her like SWAT or something. She is being eaten alive and doesn’t know it.
“just wholesome (as some holes getting plowed can be) smut, fun for the whole family (just not all at once… that would be weird…)…”
Germy, attaboy, the last comment was pure genius!
“It’s also good that Max is in jail, otherwise he’d probably get a hold of her.”
Errrrr…….. yes, most probably!
Gotta agree with Will Ryder on this one. If we are old enough to drive, vote, and drink (in some cases), we are definitely old enough to know right from wrong. Some girls don’t know when they need help, but in the end, it’s up to them to turn their life around. Whether they hit rock bottom have some sort of breakthrough, or get “rescued” by a group of people intervention-style and end up finding the strength to live a better life… It’s up to the girls to cut the bullshit and make their life better, not the producers or directors or anyone else.
funny that rev sand wrote this as he is best buds with fucktard dan..
perhaps they should stop giving drugs and alcohol to 20 year old girls…
and so many rumors of sexual favors, i have heard from many girls now, fucktard dan is crossing the line.
“Some girls don’t know when they need help, but in the end, it’s up to them to turn their life around.”
In the meantime lets make money sodomizing them and urinating on their faces for fun and profit.
The whores had that coming.
re: 15
Thanks Harvey.
I like whipping out my genius from time to time and having it admired.
Most likely they agree ahead of time to be sodomized and urinated on–at least let’s hope so ; )
Money is the only motivation a lot of the time, it’s only fun for some of us. A lot of girls were fucked up way before they got into porn. It isn’t anybody’s job to “save a hoe” because no one forced them to get in front of the camera.
For that logic, Bernie Maddoff should be a free man, none was put a gun to his head when they joined a ponzi scheme. All con men should be free, because a for a scheme to work their victims shall be greedy enought to see the obvious, that is a bad business going on.
Also, I doubt that many PWs are obviouly mentally ill, they are not the model of mental competence. They probably would seen as legaly unfit for many serious business that do not imply sucking cock in front off a camera.
Why are people a dime a dozen? Mary the one Jesus hung out with was a whore? He took her in and she changed. Why does the XXX industry degrade itself? Maybe she was high. What ever hapened to tact people? I hear she’s a this and a that, I did put her story on my site, except I put the focus on the title and made it JL productions. Why? It was their shoot right? Who’s been in porn longer JL productions or a 20 year old? And seriously, they’ve never dealt with an out of control girl before? Porns just like striping, it isent for everyone. It’s a personal choice, she could of chose not to be a XXX performer. But I believe, agents are needed and every performer who performs in the industry needs a “real” agent. This is not figure modelling or a buety pagent were talking about… A lot of so called C and D list tallent are not being represented by a real agency and the producers and directors who are “cheap” hire these girls and are taking advantage of them. These girls need “real” agents! Not a buety contestent, hypocrtical, self-centered asshole, who goes to porn partys trying to act way younger then he is, by wearing designer t-shirts and having wanna be goth chicks, who think their hotter then they actually are, who are covered in ugly full sleave tats. But agent like this can’t be bothered to represent girls who aren’t their personal version of super-models, suck. When are agents going to do there jobs and represent all the women in porn? Then this stupid shit might not happen.
heh. I’m really not trying to argue here, but getting into porn is nothing like getting scammed by a conman. Girls agree to a scene ahead of time–they’re not conned into anal or swallowing pee. My original point was that it’s up to the girl to turn her life around, whether she’s helped by someone else or not.
Marley Mason aren’t you the one who wrote on poontalk.com about how you hate stupid bitches in porn? I mean you were against girls like Tanner and there boyfriends? Aren’t you one of those listing porn stars? I mean A-D. So why are you feeling empathy for a performer that in reality you probably wouldn’t care about? I read that post you wrote and was not amused… Yes, she had a choice to make and she obviously did it without any advice from a good agent, who might have warned her and helped her with some of her problems. It’s not Jim Lanes fault that ultra picky agents like Derek Hase have turned porn performances into buety pagents. Not every actress in Hollywood has to be drop dead burtiful to be good. Just because your a 10 does not mean you can fuck. So every future women in porn needs a good agency and agent, its just the right thing to do.
What? Sorry but I had a hard time understanding that nonsense. To answer your questions as best I can… yes that was a blog post of mine. I didn’t write it for POONTALK but I let them use it. You took my words out of context–I wrote about this girl who wanted to bring her nasty suitcase pimp husband on set to watch. Yuck.
What does that blog have to do with this? I never mentioned any names in that blog entry, and I haven’t mentioned Tanner either–I don’t even know her! For you to assume who I empathize with or “probably don’t care about” is just stupid. You also assume I am against porn girls with boyfriends. Ummm last time I checked, I have a boyfriend too.
The only point I was trying to make here is very simple–change has to come from within, whether you do it alone or with help from others. Got it?
I’ll tell Shelley about Tanner. Still have to tell her about Dana Hayes being homeless.
Well put, Marley.
Darrah, Jesus can’t save Tanner. Only Tanner can.
I didn’t know anything about any of this before I came here. I think I’ve seen one clip with Tanner in it, so I can’t be called a fan of hers either.
Your article, though, gave me the impression you were hiding something from melodramatic beginning to threatening end. Even without reading anything else about it, I sent this to two friends, asking them whether they agreed this is pretty much bullshit, which, lo, they mostly did. Only after that, I read Tanner Mayes’ reply and have to say she has much more credibility in my book than you do.
This is a one-shot account, you won’t be hearing from me again as your site will enter my block list as of tomorrow. I will also make sure to tell everyone at my part-time work place (an adult video store) to stay away from Jim Powers movies. You’re a camera slave, right? Do I find your name/pseudonym somewhere on here or would you care to tell me?
Just thought I’d keep you current on the effects of the puddle of foamy bile that you regurgitated here. You really are what’s bad about this business, what keeps me from publicly admitting I watch porn, and I really hope you run out of gullible girls and unstable women soon enough to have you eat from public trashcans.