What You Crave

Did anyone see the Oprah piece yesterday on former-child-star-turned-pornstar Jaimee Foxworth ? It was a compelling story; it would have been a more compelling one if Ms. Foxworth had told the whole truth.

For anyone who doesn’t know her story (or didn’t click the link provided and read her story), she was on the sitcom Family Matters from the age of about 10 to 14. After she left the show (actually, she was written off the show for reasons we don’t need to get into), the big sitcom money stopped rolling in and she became broke. Long story short, she turned to pornography to make a quick buck.

According to Ms. Foxworth’s version, she walked in for an alleged “modeling” gig, only to find out when she was there that it was really an adult shoot. Since she was drunk (again, in her own words) and she really needed the money, she decided to shoot the porn scene anyway.

Now here’s where her story breaks down, because I did a little research on her story after I watched the piece. To hear her tell it, the extent of her porn career was this one scene on this day. Furthermore, Jaimee said that she shot the scene with a woman (Cherry Rain, I checked) because she had a choice between doing a boy/girl scene or lesbian scene and she chose the latter.

But according to the very well-established adult database IAFD - whose word I would believe in a milli-second over anyone else’s - a scene she is credited with in a certain movie has her performing opposite a male star, in addition to a woman. By the way, as an adult performer she went by the name of Crave.

Now, before I forget, I should mention that Ms. Foxworth claimed that her lone scene had been duplicated in more than one hundred skin flicks. There appears to be some truth to that. There are several porn movies titles “starring” her that also include the aforementioned man and woman (I haven‘t actually seen the movies, so I‘m going to give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that those two are in Jaimee‘s particular scene in each movie.)

And I know how adult producers and movie makers are: they can take one shoot and make it go a long way. One part of the production could wind up in one film; another segment of the shoot could end up in another adult film; meanwhile, many clips/snippets seem to find itself all over the internet on adult sites everywhere.

So while Ms. Foxworth could be telling the truth (and most likely is) about the producers of her scene getting a lot of mileage out of that one shoot, it still doesn’t change the fact that she lied about (I should say that she omitted) the fact that she later on that day had a scene with a man.

Being the curious person that I am, I didn’t just take the IAFD’s word for it. According to the boxcover photo below (I know parts of the photo are censored but for the most part you can still make out what many of the censored body parts are), where her likeness appears several times, you can see that she did indeed have something to do with a penis.

You kind of got the feeling , just watching the interview, that she was hiding something. I say that for 2 reasons. One, Jaimee says she walked into the (supposed) modeling gig drunk to begin with, and that her judgment was impaired. I’m not saying that it never happens (and besides, she claimed she‘d been battling alcoholism since she‘d fallen on hard financial times), but why would one go into an apparent legitimate gig intoxicated from the start knowing this might be one’s big break?

You might have a chaser or two for breakfast, but not enough to get you drunk. That - i.e, drink heavily - sounds like something you would do to steel your nerves once you found out you were about to do something shady (in your opinion) that you’d never done before.

Second of all, the old “I was drunk” line is a classic way of mitigating your responsibility for your actions: it‘s too pat an answer. Listen, could she have been fall-down drunk when she came for her “modeling “ shoot? Absolutely. Could everything else she said to Oprah, besides the sex partner issue, have been true (including the ridiculous assertion that she didn‘t think the public would find out, at least for a few years) ? Of course.

But in my opinion, she doesn’t deserve the benefit of that doubt. If she isn’t owning up to having sex on-screen with a man in addition to a woman (as if having a lesbian scene is more wholesome to her), what else isn’t she saying? Most likely, it's the fact that she probably shot more than one scene, and on more than one day. I personally crave a definitive answer to the issue...



(The solo photo of Crave is courtesy of IAFD.)