Joanna Angel - James Deen: 'It's Time To Heal'

August 31, I email James Deen's agent to get an interview with the 19-year old Jew.

Joanna Angel phones me Wednesday afternoon. "What are you doing?"

Luke: "It's time to heal."

Joanna: "What kind of problems are you causing? Are you trying to mend everything?"

Luke: "Yeah."

Joanna: "Good luck."

Luke: "How did he like the interview we did yesterday?"

Joanna: "He didn't like it. I'm not allowed to talk about anything."

She laughs. "I should go."

Joanna says she has a crush on a New York tattoo artist.

Joanna: "Go to Joannasangels.com. Don't I look cute on the boxcover? Don't I look like a superhero?"

Luke: "Whoa. It stars James Deen. I hear he's great."

Joanna: "Who? James who?

"I called my mom last night. Fortunately my phone was almost out of battery. It ran out in the middle of the conversation."

Luke: "Has James Deen met your parents yet?"

Joanna: "I have no idea who James Deen is."

Luke: "What are you doing having crushes on other men?"

Joanna: "I've got raging hormones."

Luke: "I haven't been sleeping. I'm not the most lucid."

Joanna: "Uh oh. Too much crystal meth for you. That stuff's addictive. Instead of trying to call people and ask them questions about their sex life, why don't you take a nap?"

Luke: "I want to heal. I want to heal. I want to get you both on the phone at the same time."

Joanna squeals: "No. I have to go."

James Deen calls me Thursday afternoon, September 1, 2005. He grew up in and around Pasadena.

James: "When I was six years old, I saw porn for the first time when I was walking home from school. I decided that that was what I wanted to do with my life.

"When I was 12, I was listening to Loveline. Jenna James was on. Every guy calling in was talking, 'I wan to f--- you. I've got a big dick. I want to do porn.'

"After an hour, she got fed up. She said, 'You wanna do porn? Here's what you have to do. Sit in a room with 30 of your friends and beat off. When one of them yells cum, you've got to cum within 30 seconds.

"The guy hung up the phone. I started to think about it. I started doing crazy things like having sex in front of a bunch of people at parties and trained myself to cum on cue.

"When I was 17, I realized I had no in to the industry, but I planned to get into the industry. I started messing around with girls from Hollywood. I figured that they would have an in to the industry. At a party, I met a stripper who knew Pamela Peaks.

"The day after I turned 18, I called up Pamela Peaks. She wasn't too thrilled to hear from me at first. She said, 'Send me some naked pictures of you with your dick hard.'

"I did that. She called me back the next day as sweet as could be. 'We've got to get you started.'

"She sent me over to World Modeling [it was June 2004]. I stayed with them for about three months. They weren't getting me much work, so I went over to Scooby's Fresh Talent Management. I've been working eversince."

Deen says he's done about 450 scenes. "I did my first movie for Eon McKai -- Art School Sluts. But for the most part, no one wanted to hire me because I was 18.

"In my third month, I met Jim Lane and Will Hampton. They each put me in two or three scenes a week. I also did a scene a week for Matt's Models. I was working two or three times a day (several times I worked four times a day).

"I woke up in the morning and it was like, 'Oh God, I have to go to work.' I never want to do that with this job. I raised my rate and cut out everyone who wasn't paying me $500.

"I graduated highschool when I was 15 because I couldn't stand the people that I was around. I started going to junior college at PCC (Pasadena City College). I got kicked out of my mom's house when I was 15.

"My mom is crazy. My parents marriage broke up when I was in utero. My whole life my mom has seen me as a mini version of my dad. I learned this from multiple therapists. My mom took out her anger and aggression towards my father on me.

"I got kicked out because when I was 14, my parents split."

Luke: "Why did you get kicked out of junior high?"

James: "Because I punched the principal. But he had it coming.

"I usually dealt with the associate principal. She loved me.

"For some reason, I get along better with females."

James says that one thing he hates about the porn industry is "that everyone gossips so much. I guess that's inevitable."

Luke: "How does porn affect your love life?"

James: "It doesn't. I'm way too young to even consider having a real relationship. I don't plan to have any real relationships."

Luke: "What are your ambitions?"

James: "To have so much money that I don't have to do anything unless I choose to."

Luke: "How did your parents react to your getting into the porn industry?"

James: "My mom's in denial. She doesn't believe me.

"Last year, my dad asked for my plans for the summer. I said porn. He said, 'That'll f--- up your chances to be governor.'

"One day when I was staying at my dad's house. The PM for Patti Rhodes called the house and left a message. My dad got the message and realized I wasn't joking. We talked about it for a while.

"I know he'd rather have me in school studying to be a lawyer or a doctor. But he knows that I'm going to do what I want regardless of the opinions of others."

James says he's never made anyone pregnant. "Or at least they haven't told me about it. I'm a big condom enthusiast. Before porn, I could count the girls I'd had condomless sex with on one hand."

Luke: "How has porn affected you?"

James: "It's made me hornier."

Luke: "I just got an email from Joanna. She writes: 'Whatever you do, please make it known that I had nothing to do with this.'"

James: "I know she has nothing to do with this. I'm amazed that we made it this far in the interview without talking about her.

"I was showing up to a set, and people said, 'Hey, I read on lukeisback about you and Joanna Angel.' So I was dealing with that.

"I assumed that your first question would be, 'What's the deal between you and Joanna Angel?'

"I met Joanna in Las Vegas for the last AVN [show in January]. I thought she was cute. She thought I was cute. We flirted but we didn't do anything. Eon put me in Kill Girl Kill 3. She wanted to work with me. I wanted to work with her.

"She was here for the week. We f----- like bunny rabbits for the entire week. Then she went home and wrote this big story, and I stress the word, story. It was false stuff and highly exaggerated truth. It really bugged me. She showed it to me like she was proud. I was like, 'You make me out to be this complete and utter asshole.'

"She likes guys who are pricks.

"The reason she's doing this is because she thinks it's hot. She thinks that writing like this about me makes me more attractive. I've been on her website and looked at the comments her members have left. They're like, 'He's an asshole. You shouldn't talk to him. If you want me too, I'll f--- him up.'

"This is proof. I'm not this guy. You make me out to be this guy. You think it's hot but the world doesn't.

"It didn't bother me so much when it was on her site. But when she went on your site and did the same thing and made me out to be this asshole, that bugged me.

"I really love this business. I don't want any of my business affected by one girl's false stories.

"For the record, we are not dating. She's a sweetheart. She is out of her mind, but that's just another reason to love her."

Luke: "How did you get the name James Deen?"

James: "James Dean was a nickname of mine since seventh grade. If you see my business card, it's just a picture of me standing there. All my life people have been calling me 'James Dean. You remind me of James Dean. I'm going to call you J.D.' I guess it's the way I stand when I smoke a cigarette. I don't know anything about the guy. I've seen Rebel Without A Cause once.

"My other nicknames are Third Rock and Softserve.

"I was throwing all this stuff out there and finally Pamela Peaks looks at my picture and says, 'That'll work.'

"The only thing I don't like about it is I don't like introducing myself to people as James Deen.

"People remember James Deen better than James Rothstein. That's one good thing about the name."

Joanna Angel writes me: "That was a boring interview. It made me fall a sleep at my computer, even with all the speed in my system."