I call the 20yo Monday afternoon (2/27/06). She's nine months pregnant. This will be her second child. She had the first one at 17 and gave her up to adoption. This child she will keep.
Alyssa, who normally measures 36DD-28-36, is one of seven children.
Luke: "How did you get into porn?"
Alyssa: "Through a friend, Kat Kleavage, in October 2004 (when Alyssa moved to LA). I've been in over 50 scenes."
Luke: "What do you love and hate about the business?"
Alyssa: "I love the sex with people I don't know and don't have to see again.
"I hate that we don't use condoms.
"I hate the way people try to get over on one another. They book you for a boy-girl scene and then try to have you do three of them. 'Oh, it's three little ones that are 15-minutes.'
"I hate that there are some directors that if you don't f--- them, you don't get a job."
Luke: "Who?"
Alyssa: "I'm not going to mention names. I don't want to not be able to work for them ever.
"I hate that we don't get tested for all the STDs.
"I hate that the girls flake, like the young girls. I'm only 20. It makes us look bad, the young ones who do have our stuff together.
"I hate people who act like they are your friend and then talk s--- about you. That XXXPornTalk."
Luke: "You were getting hammered on there."
Alyssa: "That Tony Malice, from JM Productions... What so sucks is that I've done four or five movies with them. We always got along. When that first happened, I wrote him a bunch and we IM'd. He didn't copy and paste the whole thing, just what he wanted."
Alyssa: "Why would you even say something like that to me? He would go out of his way and call me and say, 'Hey, do you want to come over? You want to hang out?'
"Then you're going to sit here and talk s--- behind my back?
"When I confronted him, he said, 'You should be happy that more people are knowing your name. I'm giving you a better name.'
"That's not a better name.
"You went way too far.
"I understand people might have their opinions and might not like me but I have no respect for someone who says nasty things about an unborn innocent child.
"Bishop said Leah Stevenson goes to all her shoots. She has a good attitude. No one can say anything bad about her and you're making it hard for her to get a job. Someone is going to read this and think that these girls are f----- up and are on drugs. They're whores. They're flakes.
"And that's not even true.
"Why can't we all just be business?
"I've never been on set on drugs. I don't do drugs. I don't do hardcore drugs. I can't do them. My body won't let me. I don't come drunk. I come on time.
"If I am doing my job correctly, why do you have to go into my personal life? Who cares if I escort? I escort. I don't care if you don't like it."
Alyssa shot for Rodney Moore last week. "I talked to my doctor. I've read things about it. They say that [sex] helps. It brings on labor. You just have to be careful. You can't do a scene with Coffee Ron."
Luke: "When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?"
Alyssa: "An attorney. When I got out of highschool, I decided I wanted to become a nurse practicioner."
Luke: "What kind of crowd did you hang out with in highschool?"
Alyssa: "I'm from a really small town (5,000 population) in Texas. My graduating class had about 240 students. Everyone knew each other. I grew up in town and never went anywhere else. The cliques dissolved in highschool.
"My best friend was a virgin and she still is a virgin.
"I got pregnant at 16. I grew up fast. Once I realized how people really are, that they are really not your friend, I didn't hang out with that many people. I went out with people and went to football games and did the regular stuff, but I only had one friend, the Christlike girl."
Luke: "What do you love and hate about Los Angeles?"
Alyssa: "I love that this is a city of money. I hate the prices, the rent for apartments. I love that there are a bunch of people here and that everyone can do what they want to do.
"If you went to my town and said you did porn, you would have nobody to talk to. Here you can do anything and it's not a big deal. If you do porn or if you escort... You're not going to be judged."
Luke: "How have your friends and family from your hometown reacted to your working in the sex industry?"
Alyssa: "Not well. We're still family. We still talk. They don't agree with job at all. They don't say anything anymore.
"When they found out, it was really discouraging. I talked to my sister. They thought I stripped. One of my tax forms came to my house, from No Boundaries Entertainment. My mom, 'Oh, I guess she's a stripper.' She didn't like that but it was a whole lot better than f------ for money.
"I said to my sister, 'I don't understand how you can sit there and say you understand the temptation [to strip] for $150 when you can make $1,000 [doing porn or escorting]?' I don't understand how you think there's such a big difference.
"You work your way up. It's like drugs. There's weed and if you keep going, you're a meth or heroin addict. Rush after rush.
"It's just such an easy way [to make money].
"I have a couple of friends who don't like it. They don't like the lifestyle around it -- the partying, the drugs... I did party, but it didn't last long. I couldn't cope with it.
"I've always been a big believer in going to college. It's not like I'm always going to be in this industry.
"Most of my friends know, yeah, I was a slut in highschool and I've always loved sex, but I've always been smart and I'm not getting so involved in it that I can't do anything else.
"I'm going to go to college in the summer to become a nurse practicioner. It's above an RN and right below a doctor."
Luke: "How has it affected you to be in this kind of work?"
Alyssa: "It's made me grow up. You have to go to your jobs on time. One thing can go wrong and it'll be all over the internet or all over the industry and it can mess you up. You have to be on your tiptoes and do the right thing.
"I did flake four or five times, but it caught up to me. I did not want that reputation. One company said, 'We don't like hiring girls that young because they are always flakey.'
"I was with Derek (LADirectModels.com) before I got pregnant. His rule is that if you don't show up, you get fired. I like that. That's one of the best rules made. It makes a girl be on time, be responsible, and her s--- together.
"Sex now is so overrated. That's why I need so much now to get me off. Regular sex doesn't do anything to me.
"I have emotions during sex, but then I don't. That's a con [negative], but what are you going to do?
"Escorting has made me not trust men. The whole marriage thing. It's made me more careful. I've always been a people person. It's made me put my communication skills together. You meet a whole lot of people you'd never think you would.
"Being here in LA makes you grow up.
"I would never take back escorting and I would never take back porn. It's made me who I am today.
"I might want to go to med school. I want to get married and raise my children and have a nice life."
Luke: "How does the father of your child feel about you working as a porn star and escort?"
Alyssa: "He doesn't have a problem with it."
Luke: "How has your sex work affected your love life?"
Alyssa: "Trust has always been a big factor for me. I don't trust that many people. You just have to date men who are comfortable with it or are in the same field as you. I've only had two boyfriends [since Oct 2004]. They both were comfortable. Of course, with the first one, it did come up one day, the whole porn issue. He had a tape and it wasn't what he wanted to see.
"You can't lie about it. I tried to lie about it once and it just didn't work. I just had so many excuses for why I was not showing up or coming over."
Luke: "Why do you have trust issues? What happened in your childhood?"
Alyssa: "Everything.
"When I had my daughter, I saw exactly who my true friends were.
"I would've done anything for this person. I would've rolled up at 3 am and bailed you out. My friends always use me as an excuse. That they were at my house. I was the bad kid. One friend was supposed to come back to my house, but she got drunk and went home, and her mom flipped out at me.
"You made me look bad because you didn't want your ass to be in trouble.
"Being in the escort industry and seeing all the men who cheat on their wives. I'm not saying, 'Don't cheat on your wife,' because that's money for me.
"It's just made me realize that you have to put a guard up.
"I had a good childhood."
Luke: "Anything that happened in your childhood that predisposed you to working in the sex industry?"
Alyssa: "No. When I was ten, I saw porn, and I thought, 'Cool. That's what I want to do.' I looked at porn from then on. I was always interested in sex. I lost my virginity at 13."
By the time she'd graduated from highschool, Alyssa had sex with 70 people.
Luke: "Did you have a good relationship with your father?"
Alyssa: "No. I was adopted. My mom was married several times. She worked as a teacher..."
Luke: "That's probably where your issues with trust come from."
Alyssa: "I completely agree. I've always agreed that not having a father has done that."
Marco Pallotti calls me Monday evening. "I had her booked last Tuesday [Feb 21]," he says, "and her agent Thomas Hope called me and said, 'She had her baby yesterday.'"
Alyssa responds: "Well actually there is a story behind that: I told Thomas about 2 weeks before I was supposed to shoot that I didn't want to shoot past the 18th. Reasons being that I was getting close to my due date and I didn't want to work with anyone who was going to be too hard on me and my AIM test was expiring that day. But Thomas forgot and I got his phone call the day of so he could give me directions. Well I said Thomas I asked you to book that earlier I didn't think it went through and he said oh shit. Well he asked me if I could still do it and told him my test expired. Well he didn't want the director to think that the only reason was for the test. So he lied. But the craziest thing was that the day before I was admitted because they thought I would be having the baby. But it was a false alarm. So, now do you understand. I feel really bad because it wasn't intentional but he didn't want the director to be mad at him."
March 27, 2006
Alyssa calls me back Tuesday afternoon. I ask her for drama. She says Tony Malice can go to hell.
She searched XXXPornTalk and found this thread started by Tony entitled, "The Most Polluted Baby Ever Born."
Malice had swiped photos of Alyssa's baby from her MySpace page and started a thread:
Alright guys, I am going straight to hell for this, but my guess is that ticket is already bought and paid for so this isn't really gonna make it worse. Alyssa west has sprayed out the spawn of 100 John's. That's right, it has happened.
I actually feel dirty for posting these. But she posted them on her MySpace, I'm sure a bunch of Craig's list John's are jerking off furiously to these.
I remember seeing the thread and not feeling right about linking to it.
Alyssa: "I put my son's picture on my MySpace page because all my friends are on it from my hometown and it is so much easier than emailing everybody.
"He went out of his way to start a new post and put my child's picture on XXXPornTalk to talk s--- about.
"JM Productions needs to fire Tony Malice or I'm taking it further. This is slander and libel. I've already talked to an attorney. If this was your child, you would do the same thing.
"I went to TonyMalice.com. Genesis Skye is on there. I remember working with Genesis and he was all over her. Tony, you act like everyone is your favorite and then you trash them."