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LoreX retweeted
Bipolar manic episode, caught on camera in a 1980s psychiatric interview. Judy was in her 40s, she’d just survived a 13-hour Greyhound ride to her 25th class reunion, and for 6 straight minutes she rocks, nods and laughs so hard she can barely get the words out:
“I was on a high I’ve never been on in my life.”
At 5 in the morning she was on the phone in someone else’s kitchen. The woman she was staying with got so angry she walked out of her own house, and her boyfriend called to tell Judy off. He called her “crazy manic.” She told the doctor: “He doesn’t understand me. But neither do I.”
Her luggage never showed up, so she bought a yellow dress, “a knockout,” because yellow “does more for my personality and confidence than any other color.” At a lake party, she says, 4 or 5 men begged her for “an Esther Williams number,” called her the “sex pot of the class” and asked when she’d be in Playboy.
In the video below she jumps from luggage to dresses to swimsuits to compliments without stopping, laughs at her own jokes “like Joan Rivers,” and never once notices anything is wrong. Her last words: “I was right on top of the world.”
About 4.4% of American adults will have bipolar disorder at some point in their lives. A manic episode has to last at least 7 days to be diagnosed, and it usually starts around age 25. In the 1980s the main treatment was lithium, approved in the US in 1970.
Is she the happiest person in that room, or the sickest?
LoreX retweeted
Vanessa del Rio - the first Latina queen of prn’s Golden Era. Over 1750+ men on camera. One scene that ran 122 minutes straight. 81 films, 45 days in jail and $16M in career earnings - and in 1986 she went on live TV and said the one thing no prn star had ever dared to say.
Baltimore, 1986. The studio was so packed they had to turn people away at the door. Hall of Fame legend, the face of a whole decade, and a video store owner who rated her tapes “12 out of 10.” She had just walked away from it all - and she came on live television to explain why.
She was asked: what’s it like knowing millions of people have adored you for years?
“I love it. It’s fun.”
Then she said the line nobody in that studio expected.
“The only real victims in p*rnography are the people in front of the camera.”
Not the viewers. Not the couples at home. The girls on screen. “You lose something inside yourself. I didn’t know how to love.”
So how did it all start? No casting call. No big dream. She needed money for rent before a trip to Europe. “I would try anything once.”
Then came the part of the story she called a blessing.
A live show in Richmond, Virginia. Indecent exposure. Drugs in the dressing room. A year in and out of court. 45 days in jail.
“I’m thankful I got busted.”
Because in that cell she started doing push-ups. Then she saw a female bodybuilder in a magazine. “I wanted muscles - and I went after them full force.” At 31 she was lifting twice a day. Her trainer became her boyfriend.
And the callers kept getting surprised. Catholic school. IBM training. A former computer programmer. One man called in just to say: “I respect you a lot.”
Off camera she trains twice a day, eats clean, meditates, runs her own fan club - and says the life people call boring is the most exciting one she’s ever had.
Would you call a woman with 1750 men on camera a victim?