Date: August 13th, 2019 8:34 PM
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Mia Khalifa claims she made only $12K doing porn
Chris Perez August 13, 2019
Ex-porn star Mia Khalifa got the Twitterverse talking on Monday
night after she claimed in a tweet that she only made “a TOTAL of around
$12,000” in the adult entertainment industry.
“People think I’m racking in millions from porn,” tweeted the
26-year-old. “I made a TOTAL of around $12,000 in the industry and never
saw a penny again after that. Difficulty finding a normal job after
quitting porn was… scary.”
Khalifa, a Lebanon native, only worked in the adult film
business for three months, but was — and still is — one of its biggest
names.
Years after quitting, she was still ranked No. 2 on Pornhub for most searched stars in 2018, according to VICE.
“To clarify, I was never promised ‘millions’, nor do I expect
it,” Khalifa said. “I’m just clarifying common misconceptions about me,
and in turn, about the industry.”
Khalifa added, “I was involved in porn so briefly, but my
actions spread like wildfire, and I continue to be ranked (truly baffles
me) 5 years after leaving the industry. This is why people think I
still perform.”
The tweets got Khalifa to trend on Twitter Monday night and were
accompanied by a YouTube video, featuring an interview she gave earlier
this month — in which she “tells her story for the first time.”
“In 2014 Mia Khalifa made world news when she received death
threats from ISIS after appearing in an adult film wearing a hijab,” a
description reads. “For the first time ever, Mia sits down with Megan
Abbott to tell her story.”
In the interview, Khalifa described her transition out of porn — calling it “terrifying.”
“I didn’t know what I was going to do,” she said.
Her infamous hijab scene — which was still garnering ISIS
threats as of August 2018 — is what ultimately made Khalifa leave the
business.
“The turning point, of course, was when I did the hijab scene,”
she said. “That is when the ISIS death threats came in, all of the news
broke out — globally. Not just in America. It was trending on Twitter,
it was all over the news. I was banned from a handful of
countries…Egypt…Afghanistan…Very Muslim countries were deeply offended
by it — and I’m Catholic. So to me it wasn’t, ‘Oh yea, this is bad.’
What I actually said when they proposed the scene to me, and this is
verbatim, was: ‘You motherf–kers are going to get me killed.'”
Describing her quick-found fame, Khalifa said: “The day after
the scene dropped is when everything blew up. I went from 400 followers
on Instagram to like 200,000 in the span of three days and then it just
kept snowballing until I was at 2 million like 6 months later. This was
after I had quit porn. It just kept growing, and growing, and growing —
and then my Instagram account was hacked by ISIS.”
Khalifa went on to become a sports presenter after leaving the porn industry, and she hopes to continue working in that field.
“I definitely want to grow my career,” she said.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4322738&forum_id=2#38683013)
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