Georgina talks about many friends in her book “The Devil Made Me Do It”.   I wondered if she still keeps in touch with those from her porn past, and if she made more porn friends while researching and writing her book. She answers…

FRIENDS- Past & Present

by Georgina Spelvin
“I loved you Baby, but the show closed.

As the child of itinerant parents, then a so-called Gypsy (New York dancer), the concept of lasting friendships was foreign to me. I just never saw anyone for more than a year at most my whole life, until I met John. In show biz there’s a saying: “I loved you Baby, but the show closed.” That’s pretty much how it was for me. Friendships made on the road, or even in a show in the city (New York),
rarely extended very far beyond the final curtain. Hence, I was friendly with a  lot of people, but did not form lasting friendships until I retired from films, got a day job, fell in love, married, and stayed in one place long enough to plant a garden.

In researching my book (The Devil Made Me Do It), I re-connected with many of the folks I’d known – well – damned intimately – during my year of living dangerously (the year I was in The Devil in Miss Jones, among other smarmy films). Now I have a whole gaggle of good e-pals, both friends from the past and new acquaintances.

Old friends department. Harry Reems called me on November 11th to wish me a happy sobriety birthday! When we reconnected, we shared our drunk stories. Yeah, yeah. We’re both card-carrying members and he said it’s OK to blow his anonymity.

Veronica Hart, as I mention in DA BUK, married one of the few real friends I made and kept during the Pickle Factory Daze, Iron Mike. I was madly, madly in lust with him. When I saw that lasting love wasn’t in the picture, I dove into the porn world, and lost myself in the bottle to show I didn’t really care.  After I found myself, got a day job, met and married the REAL love of my life, John. We four became friends. Then Mike went to heaven. I still try to see Veronica as often as I can. I loved her the first time we met, and still do.

Then there was Claire; we reconnected, email a lot, and met for a tour of the Getty one day last year. She would still prefer to NOT have her real name used in my ramblings. Same with Stella – also a major player in the book. Stella is, along with Cindi, my best friend. Stella and I, ARE, after all, still
wives-in-law, even though CB, my first husband and her last one, hopped the big 707 to Paradise several years ago.

Annie Sprinkle, Veronica Vera, Jerry Damiano, Georgina

Another blast from the past: Annie Sprinkle, who was a bubbly, adorable, eighteen year old photographer when I met her at Jerry Damiano’s studio back in the 70′s. She responded to my outreach with great advice and efforts to connect me with an agent and/or publisher for my book. Through her I met Veronica Vera, another great lady. HER book, Miss Vera’s School for Boys Who Wanna Be Girls is a delight, btw.

Another new friend: Nina Hartley, I met while doing promo spots for David Sterry’s anthology, Ho’s, Hooker’s, Call Girls, and Rent Boys, to which both Nina and I contributed writings. She is a hoot and a half. Also the author of a fine book.

Then there’s my pal, Raven Touchstone – writer of porn scripts, hostess of shoots, wardrobe mavin, brilliant photographer. We met on the shoot of Paul Thomas’ remake of The Devil in Miss Jones. We are quite sure we were twins separated at birth.

There are so many more, I just don’t have room to name them all. I guess I’m a lot better at making friends now than I used to be.

You can visit Georgina at her personal blog GeorginasWorld.com

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