“What if the parents had said, ‘I object’?” moderator Barbara Walters questioned.
“Then I wouldn’t have done it — but there was no notice sent out,” Grey responded.
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“That was the issue I had,” panelist Sherri Shepherd noted. “Parents were not informed. My thing was that my son, Jeffrey, is 6-years-old…if he came home and asked ‘who’s Sasha Grey?’ — I would like to let him know, this is a fireman…”
“She’s also an actress, don’t forget,” Whoopi Goldberg
Walters asked why the former porn star had wanted to read to children.
“Reading was very important to me as a kid,” Grey explained. “It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn’t encouraged so much but my parents encouraged that and it has made me part of who I am.”
“My question is it always going to be there as a stigma?” Walters asked.
“I’m just curious about the stigma,” Goldberg interjected. “You haven’t killed anybody, you haven’t raped any children, you haven’t vomited, you know, in church–you know what I mean?”
“Being a porn star is not something you hope that your children will aspire to,” Walters countered. “You could’ve been a teacher.”
“I don’t have any regrets,” Grey said. “This is something I wanted to go after, one of the large reasons was to stop the stigma that people have against the adult film industry…I grew up ashamed of my sexuality and I felt guilty and disgusted at my sexuality and the more I researched and opened my mind, it felt to me like it was a good decision, and I don’t have any regrets.”
“I would like to devote my time contributing to the community in some form,” Grey
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