Bree Olson on Leaving Porn and Surviving Hollywood Predators
The former adult actress opens up to Marlow Stern about why she left porn, her ugly experience with Charlie Sheen, and why Hollywood is creepier than the porn industry.
As one of the top actresses in porn, Bree Olson was living comfortably—earning upwards of $3,500 per scene, raking in awards, and jet-setting across the world. Not bad for a gal from Woodburn, Indiana (population: 1,600).
Then Charlie Sheen happened.
The year was 2011, and Olson found herself swept up in the Two and a Half Men star’s midlife meltdown—“tiger blood,” “winning,” anti-Semitic rants at his boss. It played out very publicly, with news networks salivating over every head-scratching, foot-in-mouth moment. She and Natalie Kenly were reduced to the actor’s live-in “goddesses,” with the former slut-shamed and branded an enabler by the prying public due to her sex-worker occupation. It was a convenient narrative—and a false one.