When someone makes a video ( Stephanie Swift) for a biased organization ( XXX Church), someone (LIB & LN Writer Jon) watches the Video and he reports on what is there, what is seen, what is said and gives you a link to watch it for yourself, there isn’t much clearer picture or better job he ( Jon) can do.
Nica Noelle doesn’t like Jon’s write up, (doesn’t like Jon either) and shares her insight, her "personal knowledge" of Stephanie Swift’s life, along with why Stephanie is motivated to do what she did. Must consider this an OP/ED. My source for Nica’s words is her post she placed yesterday on a PUBLIC forum board called http://forum.sweetheartvideo.com
Nica Noelle Writes-I can speak a little more freely on this forum. I can’t stand how that idiot Jon Catt/furfamily is always posting links and making his dumb sensationalistic "headlines" and stirring the shit. I really wish he’d find something to do with his time other than try to create drama andgossip about people he doesn’t know.
So here’s the truth as I know it from my close, long-term friendshipwith Stephanie. And I just spoke to her at length about all of this last night, by the way.
1. Stephanie has always been very religious. She hasn’t "converted." She was always a big believer in God and wrote a lot about her faith in Jesus even when she was still performing. I know because she’d let
me read her writing.
2. She told me two things about that interview: 1) that the xxx church"selectively edited" the interview to make it sound a lot more negative toward the industry than she intended, and b) she feels she’s
under a lot of pressure right now to denounce her past to some degree.
She confirmed that she has mixed feelings about a lot of the things that were going on in her life "off camera," and that influenced her decisions and judgment at certain times. She confirmed that when she
looks back she remembers being a lost soul who was in a lot of pain. And I will confirm, as someone who was very close to her for her final years in Adult, that she was not leading a particularly healthy or
positive lifestyle. And that had a lot to do with the people around her. Stephanie is a fragile, giving soul who tries to take care of everyone, and she had a lot of people around her who were taking advantage of that and working her way too hard.
I will tell you that the "Stephanie Swift" I observed was one of the most gifted, natural performers I’d ever seen, and it was easy to tell that she loved it and got a great deal of satisfaction from it. But were there other things going on in her life that weren’t so good? Yes. Did her family disown her the entire time she was in Adult, which filled her with shame, and does she very much want to make sure she keeps their love and support now? Yes. (Even though one family member still won’t allow her any contact with her nieces and nephews because of her past. In fact, even when Stephanie was going through chemotherapy this family member would not "forgive" her for having been in porn and offered ZERO love and support.)
Keep in mind that the world (and many porn star’s families), give a round of applause to anyone who comes out of the industry denouncing it and confessing how ashamed they are of themselves. That’s what everyone wants to hear.
I asked Stephanie if there was anything I could tell fans who are asking about her and are concerned about her and she said "Yes. Tell them that I’m saying what I have to say to survive. I have to give my life over to God because God and family is all I have left."
She is struggling financially, as there is very little help for those of us in Adult who fall upon hard times or illness. It’s not too hard to understand, then, why so many leave here feeling that they wasted
their time.
NL_ I have more to say about this, questions to ask, and I would like to hear from Stephanie to see if How Nica Noelle explains this is an this is an accurate portrayal of her feelings.I would also iike to hear from the XXXChurch on their editing practices & relationship with Stephanie, along with my readers who donated money to this whole thing. Boy do I have more to say…
Why does it seem like no one in the industry saves their money? Just about every single story that appears on this site about a porn star that got sick (or had an accident) talks about or mentions the girl in the story being financially wiped out.
I swear they need some sort of a union or some program that looks out for the performers. Some folks to see that the performers are treated well (see Jennifer White story for how NOT to treat a performer), not forced to do things they don’t want to do, a health insurance plan, and also financial planners to help the performers put some of their money away so when they leave the industry or have a catastrophy happen (like Stephanie is dealing with) they are better prepared for it.
Amen, brother. Someone needs to “give a shit” and start a union for performers.
Nica doesnt have the best rep around the business. As for performers and money, well isnt that what someone like Bill Margold should be helping them with…it is PAW, guess not, if lardass ever wants to explain any good he does with PAW please go public and speak. Another example of money is Nina Hartley, she’s 50-51 years old and she asking for cash and this is a woman who has a nursing degree. Of course age doesnt equal maturity and neither does intellect.
@origen – Not to change the subject but, I’ll be hanging with your fave, Lexi Love, in a couple of days. She’s now living in San Francisco. If I end up on her UStream show, I’ll give you a shout-out.
@Karmafan and Larry – Unfortunately, these days, lots of people who worked hard their whole lives and tried to save now have trouble making ends meet — and especially after an unexpected expense or two crops up (like a catastrophic medical problem). Even if you bought you own health insurance, those premiums have risen, too. The American middle class has been systematically undone since the Nixon administration. Toss in the way the adult industry has been harmed by piracy, and the subsequent decrease in production, and its easy to see how one can have problems making ends meet.
Yes, Nina has a nursing degree, but she hasn’t worked as a nurse in many years and would need to go through extensive continuing education coursework to catch up on all the new techniques/treatments/etc…
I could not agree more that a union or guild complete with a credit union, financial planners and other services is an idea whose time has come.
Michael is right on this one. I am a retired performer and took a huge financal hit in late 2009. Many Americans did. But if I were to come forward with this others in the industry would just chalk it up to I’m stupid and probably partied all my money away. In the early-mid 2000’s I owned homes, investments, and lived a reasonably comfortable life. Now I can only afford to pay my rent- usually in the middle of the month and have roomates. Getting back into performing is not really an option and statisticly there is one job opening for every 500 people looking where I live now- I’m fucked!
I like the idea of a union but I don’t ever see it happening. The industry has sought out very nieve girls who will not fight for it and will bully the girls that will into keeping their mouths shut.
Awesome, Mike! She’s the best!