Ex Porn Star Lara Roxx: I went to LA and all I got was HIV: Watch Video
Submitted by Shelley Lubben on Wed, 06/17/2009 - 06:07.
Ex Porn Star Lara Roxx Story
(Watch shocking video below.)
In March of 2004 Lara Roxx took a plane to Los Angeles leaving her native Montreal in search of a quick fortune in the Adult Entertainment’s land of opportunity known on the map as San Fernando Valley. Her plan was simple. She would first meet her agent and then embark on a busy work schedule. The more scenes, the more money, and in L.A a young woman could perform several scenes a day and easily earn as much as $10,000 to $15,000 a week depending on how open minded she was in terms of her physical boundaries. Eager to get to work Lara Roxx performed her first scene within 24 hours of landing on American soil. What was meant to be the first of many lucrative scenes was destined to end her career before it ever got off the ground.
The morning after she performed that scene she already saw her plan begin to unravel. She woke up with sores and an infection that gave her no other choice then to cancel the shoots she had scheduled to perform that day. Once again, the following morning she woke up with the same symptoms and had to cancel more shoots that her agent had booked for her and this cycle continued well into the next few weeks. Rather then working and making money she found herself growing deeper in debt as she rested and waited for her health to get better so that she could get back to the plan, which was to make a minimum of $30,000 to bring back to Montreal.
After about three weeks of canceling shoots because of the visible sores on her body and the fatigue she experienced which she initially attributed to a case of mononucleosis she received an alarming call from one of her agents who informed her that one of the two male performers she worked with had just tested positive for HIV. At that moment she already knew the verdict. She was also HIV positive. A series of blood tests would soon confirm this initially gut feeling.
Within 24 hours of testing positive for HIV Lara Roxx found herself cast into the media spotlight as journalist scrutinized the industry’s work ethics as well as Roxx’s short-lived porn career. The media was eager to make a poster-child out of this young naïve Canadian who wondered into a world that destroys souls. On the other end of the spectrum, the porn industry itself got involved in the media debate as big names such as Jenna Jameson set up a fund to aid those performers who were now out of work because of the HIV outbreak and the industry also discussed adopting tighter HIV screening methods to prevent further outbreaks. But these efforts were short lived. Lara Roxx received one check for $1500 from the Adult Industry Fund set up by Jameson and three years later fewer porn companies require mandatory condom use for their performer.
The last three years have been an ordeal for Lara Roxx. Her biggest challenge has been in achieving a sense of empowerment in the face of a lot of scrutiny. Not only has she faced adversity in her personal relationships because of people’s fears and ignorance about the HIV virus but she has also met with false assumptions because of how she contracted the virus. Nobody deserves to live with HIV no matter how they contracted it: whether one catches it on a porn-set or from a blood transfusion the implications of the illness are the same.
The alienation and fear that’s once crippled Lara Roxx now fuels her desire to help others overcome the obstacles that she faced alone. She believes there is strength in numbers and does not want anybody living with HIV to feel like they are alone as she felt when she first tested positive. The Lara Roxx Foundation wishes to raise money to spread awareness about the reality of living with HIV for both those that are infected and for those living with someone who is infected. The Lara Roxx Foundation’s mandate is to demystify the HIV/AIDS stigma. Provide education and awareness about treatments: both tradition and alternative health care. And to provide education in order to prevent the propagation of the AIDs virus(HIV).
Lara Roxx currently resides in Montreal, Quebec where she headquarters her foundation and is working on a documentary about living with HIV.
Taken from www.lararoxxfoundation.org
Shelley: Lara, we love you and are extremely proud of you for taking your pain and suffering and using it to help others. Pink Cross Foundation supports you! We are praying God will touch you and heal you completely. With God ALL things are possible!
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From someone who found out they were going to be a part of a vicious circle of possible cervical cancer in the first 9 months of being in the sex industry (my mother and younger sister both got HPV and had to have part of their cervix removed)... you think you're the only one until you hear a story like Lara Roxx.
My heart goes out to you and make the Lord use you just like Darren to do miraculous things in the world so that people everywhere may see that the porn industry is endangering many lives of some beautiful men and women out there. Porn WILL come down. I'm with you girl! Don't ever give up the fight!! You are loved no matter what!
Your Sister,
Tammie
There are so many praying for you and your quest to inform the public where AIDS is concerned, even if they don't post it here. You are very courageous and I'm proud of you.
Andrea
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Pink Cross Team Member
My heart breaks for this precious women. I pray that God will use her story for His Glory. If I could reach out and hug her right now I would.
I am praying for you Lara....(((HUGS)))
take care
peace,hugs,prayers
boldness and blessings
Carrie
Moderator
Pink Cross Team
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REMEMBER THAT NO MATTER HOW FAR YOU HAVE FALLEN
IT IS NEVER FURTHER THAN GOD CAN REACH
and it makes me so mad that the porn industry has been routinely risking the lives of the performers....condoms should be mandatory....
Carolemarie
Moderator
Pink Cross Team Member
I can't even fathom hearing that kind of news at such a young age! My heart goes out to her and her family.
How sad.
I cannot believe. As in such free country as the USA, internal laws do not regulate the pornoindustry... After all this violation of the person))) And AIDS to it acknowledgement...
I can't help but nearly cry at the thought of God sending those birds and the colors of that sunrise that really saved her life. God meets us where we are and I'm so happy that he gives us just what we need, when we need it most!
Andrea
Moderator
Pink Cross Team Member
Wow, thank you for sharing that. My prayers go out to her, and anyone else that struggles with that.
God has a big plan for Lara! He loves her.
I'm so sorry for this tragedy. She is so brave.
She is going to be a catalyst. Her story is so shocking and heartbreaking that anyone who hears it can not continue to view porn as "entertainment" again. She shows us the industry lie.
God Bless this girl!
Lara,
I want to confess to you that I am a porn addict. I have been clean ( not looked at any porn or masturbated ) for 2 months. God is strengthening me day by day.
I am so sorry. As a viewer (former) of porn I feel like I am responsible for what has happened to you. Please forgive me.
Wish I could watch the video (on dial up). What a precious girl. I admit her name (lol) and the fact that we are both Canadians just makes me all the more lovin' on her. I would love to see God heal her of AIDS. He doesn't care how she got it. None of us deserve anything less than hell, but b/c Jesus' blood cleanses us, we are already perfection in God's eyes.
I just pray that Lara's organization helps many, and that the Lord would heal her body, and give her an even more incredible testimony of God's power of restoration.
As I was watching this video and hearing what Lara has gone through and is now living with, like so many others my heart not just emotionally or spiritually but physically hurt within my chest! Lara is not an Ex-Porn Star she is a current Porn Victim! Lara, you will be in my prayers and in the prayers of my fellow confreres. God Bless you and keep you in all his grace.