And I was spewing that all over the place.” “I was incredibly rebellious, very, very aggressive, wild, confused, angry young girl,” Lords told NBC. Lords was one of the industry’s biggest stars in the mid-1980s. “She made the first move and I went for it.” However, Byron claims in the podcast that Lords hit on him. “I only realised I was being filmed when it was nearly over,” she added.

Lords wrote in her autobiography Underneath It All that Byron hit on her while she was “wasted”, and she didn’t consent to being filmed having sex. Listen to The Quicky, Mamamia's daily news podcast. Her first was What Gets Me Hot!, where she had a sex scene with Tom Byron. “Where my life had led me took me right to that agency and made me a perfect target really for that kind of exploitation,” she explained.Īfter appearing in Penthouse, Lords got into X-rated movies. Speaking to NBC News in 2003, Lords said she was “a victim of some really, really odd circumstances”. South denies giving it to her.īefore long, she was featuring in Penthouse. Lords claims she was given cocaine before she posed for nude test shots that day. “She was gorgeous, she was made up – you would have never dreamed she was underage,” South told the podcast. Her mother’s boyfriend drove her to an interview with a casting agent for the porn industry called Jim South. Looking for work, she came across a newspaper ad looking for models. Soon, Lords had ID showing that she was 21 years old. Her mother’s boyfriend introduced her to a friend who gave her a birth certificate in the name of Kristie Nussman, born six years before her. There was more sexual abuse and Lords’ living situation became very unstable.Īt the age of 15, she was looking for work. Lords moved to California with her mother and her mother’s new boyfriend. “At least in my case, and from what I understand, it's a pretty typical reaction to blame yourself for everything that's happened.” “The whole trust issue and what that does to a child, I think it's so destructive,” she explained to Larry King.

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