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.