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Christy is 30. Maggots were crawling out of the open wound on her arm, and the hospital left her in the waiting room for 2 days. Now she's homeless in Baltimore, too scared to fall asleep because she thinks the rats will smell her arm and eat her.
She's been out here for 4 years. The infection in her arm will never go back to normal. She already went septic once: shaking, freezing, couldn't eat or drink. The ER gave her antibiotics and tried to send her out within 24 hours.
She was clean once. 308 days. Then she ended up right back on the same street. "Where am I going to sleep tonight. Where am I going to eat tomorrow."
In the video below she tells you the moment she found them.
What did it feel like? "I just felt something move. Like a worm or something moving."
What did she do? "I took off all the stuff and it was just going everywhere." She soaked her arm in a tote of water. Her kids' father was there. "He's never seen anything like it."
What did she think? "I thought I was going to die. I thought bugs, everything was going to attack me and eat me."
Did the ER help with the withdrawal? They gave her nothing. She had to leave the hospital to go find drugs to get well.
Why doesn't she sleep? "The scariest thing is closing my eyes and not waking up. I feel like rats are going to eat me. A fox, anything's going to smell my arm."
So what does she do? "I stay up and fight myself from falling asleep. I'll go days and not sleep."
The doctors say they can save the arm. She doesn't believe them. "I want them to just amputate."
She has no clothes, no food, no shelter. She's lost too many friends to overdoses to count.
"I'm 30 years old. I still got my whole life ahead of me. I don't want to be dead before I'm 31. And if I keep going this route, it's going to happen."
Some people will watch this and say she did this to her own arm. Others will say a hospital that leaves a woman with maggots in a waiting room for 2 days did it too.
She's 30. She's begging doctors to cut off her arm. And she's afraid to close her eyes at night.
Do you think Christy makes it to 31?
Christy is 30. Maggots were crawling out of the open wound on her arm, and the hospital left her in the waiting room for 2 days. Now she's homeless in Baltimore, too scared to fall asleep because she thinks the rats will smell her arm and eat her.
She's been out here for 4 years. The infection in her arm will never go back to normal. She already went septic once: shaking, freezing, couldn't eat or drink. The ER gave her antibiotics and tried to send her out within 24 hours.
She was clean once. 308 days. Then she ended up right back on the same street. "Where am I going to sleep tonight. Where am I going to eat tomorrow."
In the video below she tells you the moment she found them.
What did it feel like? "I just felt something move. Like a worm or something moving."
What did she do? "I took off all the stuff and it was just going everywhere." She soaked her arm in a tote of water. Her kids' father was there. "He's never seen anything like it."
What did she think? "I thought I was going to die. I thought bugs, everything was going to attack me and eat me."
Did the ER help with the withdrawal? They gave her nothing. She had to leave the hospital to go find drugs to get well.
Why doesn't she sleep? "The scariest thing is closing my eyes and not waking up. I feel like rats are going to eat me. A fox, anything's going to smell my arm."
So what does she do? "I stay up and fight myself from falling asleep. I'll go days and not sleep."
The doctors say they can save the arm. She doesn't believe them. "I want them to just amputate."
She has no clothes, no food, no shelter. She's lost too many friends to overdoses to count.
"I'm 30 years old. I still got my whole life ahead of me. I don't want to be dead before I'm 31. And if I keep going this route, it's going to happen."
Some people will watch this and say she did this to her own arm. Others will say a hospital that leaves a woman with maggots in a waiting room for 2 days did it too.
She's 30. She's begging doctors to cut off her arm. And she's afraid to close her eyes at night.
Do you think Christy makes it to 31?
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Liliana is 23. The first time she overdosed, she loved it. The last time, she was dead for 10 minutes. Now she sleeps with 30+ strangers a day on the streets of Kensington for $600, and every dollar is gone by morning.
She's from Asbury, New Jersey. Addiction runs in her family. Her brother overdosed. She started with alcohol, went to rehab, and that's where she found out about dope.
"I liked it better."
The interviewer asks how she got hooked. She doesn't blink: "First time I OD'd, I loved it. I like that sleeping effect. It brings comfort."
She's been on fentanyl for 6 years. She's been working the corners for only a few weeks.
In the video below she walks you through a normal day like it's a grocery list. "I don't sleep. I don't eat. I get up. I go, like, basically prostitute myself for money. Then I come back. I cop. And I just do the same thing over and over and over again."
How many men a day? "I don't even f*cking know. Maybe like over 30, depending the day."
Who are they? "Old men that are like lonely."
Does she like it? "No. But it's quick money."
Where does the $600 go? "Spending on drugs. All of it." 10 to 15 bags a day.
Here's the part that gets you. She was clean for 7 months. She went back. Why? "Boredom and loneliness."
Ask her for the craziest thing she's seen out here and she describes a woman with no arms and no feet shooting up in her mouth.
Ask her if she wants to get clean. "No. But I need to."
Ask her if she's afraid to die. "No."
Ask her where she'll be in 6 months. "Either sober or dead. Because if I'm still getting high in six months, I don't want to be alive."
Her family calls all the time trying to get her out. Her three wishes: get sober, a stable life, talk to her family again. Her dream job? Run a rehab.
Some people will watch this and say she chose every single step. Others will say nobody chooses to come back from being dead for 10 minutes and miss it.
She's 23. She's already been dead once. She told the camera she's got 6 months to decide if she stays alive.
Do you think Liliana makes it out of Kensington, or is this the last video of her anyone will ever see?
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Emily hasn't seen her son since he was 5. Since then she's seen dead girls on the tracks, lost one friend to a knife and one to strangling. 5 days ago she was raped and woke up alone in an abandoned house. She's 29. Tonight she'll get in a stranger's car for $40.
She's from a small town in Virginia. Alcoholic stepdad. At 13 her best friend's older sister gave her her first line of heroin. She puked for hours. "I didn't learn my lesson."
At 19 she got pregnant and stayed clean for 5 years. Had a house, a husband, a son. Then fentanyl pills found her in 2020. She locked herself in a hotel room for 4 days and came out doing 14 a day.
She came to Baltimore to pick up packs for the dealer she was working with. Her car got stolen. She couldn't go home without it. So she started selling herself.
In the video below she walks you through Washington Boulevard.
"I've walked down the tracks and I've seen girls dead."
One girl was held captive in a man's basement for 3 months. He kidnapped her friend too. "He definitely hasn't been caught yet."
Her friend Megan, street name Diamond, was found stabbed in an abandoned house last week. Her friend Autumn, they called her Tink, was strangled 2 months ago. Also found in an abandoned house.
The interviewer asks if any of that scares her. She almost laughs. "I was just raped 5 days ago and woke up in an abandoned house myself."
Then she says the scariest thing in the video: "You just become a robot. Morbid to it."
Her night, in her own words: $80 at 4 a.m. $60 at 7 a.m. Last date $40. All of it gone on $200 to $300 of dope a day. She says withdrawal is worse than giving birth 10 times in one day.
She has a son. He's 8 now. The last time she saw him, he was 5. Asked what's really stopping her from getting clean, she goes quiet for a long time. "Caring for myself."
Her message to him if he ever sees this: "You're my sunshine. And I'm sorry. And I love you."
Some people will say she chose every car she got into. Others will say nobody chooses waking up in an abandoned house next to the place her friends were found dead.
Two of her friends are dead. The man with the basement still hasn't been caught. And Emily still gets in the car.
Do you think Emily makes it home to her son, or is she the next girl they find in an abandoned house?
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Briana Banks was a Vivid contract p*rn star, naked in a Pittsburgh hotel room with crack all over the bed, when someone pounded on the door. Three cops slammed her against the wall in handcuffs and beat her boyfriend in the bathroom. The next day they let him go. Because of her.
She was in town to feature at a club called Blush, a place she'd danced "a million times." The club had a hotel attached, but she stayed across the street at a DoubleTree with her boyfriend Bobby. "We were smoking crack the whole trip," she says. At some point he said he'd be back and walked out. She was strung out and exhausted.
He came back, they each took one hit, and then came a knock. "Housekeeping." She said no thank you. Then the pounding started: "Open the door." They looked at each other and didn't say a word. "We knew exactly what was going down."
She opened the door "buck naked." Three officers shoved her into the wall and cuffed her, then dragged him into the bathroom. "They beat the living sh*t out of him. I could hear it happening." Pipes and crack were everywhere. He had bought from an undercover cop in the middle of a huge sting, and he had paid with her Polaroid money from the club. "Please don't arrest me, I have to work tonight," she begged.
They took him away and gave her 10 minutes to pack and get out. She chain-smoked the whole time, sure they were coming back. That night she still danced. Not one girl in the club would talk to her. "Everyone thought I was a f*cking rat."
The next day she went to get him out. He had warrants in other states, and they were going to keep him. Then the cops realized who he was. "You're Briana Banks' boyfriend." They let him walk. "They didn't know that I was a loser myself at that point," she says. "I felt like I was on the biggest white-trash episode of Cops ever."
Half the internet calls her a crackhead who got what was coming. The other half says she was a kid dragged down by an older addict. Almost nobody notices that the only thing that got him out of jail was her name.
The cops slammed her against a wall. Then they let him walk because of who she was.
Was Briana Banks a grown woman who chose that life, or a 21-year-old who didn't know how to leave a 34-year-old man?
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Tera Patrick was a nurse when she mailed her photos to Playboy. 10 years later she owned her own p*rn company, landed at Cannes to police escorts and sat down in a radio studio where a mom and her daughter were watching. Then came the $100,000 question.
She went into p*rn 10 years earlier, straight out of nursing. A year of Playboy and magazines, then movies. By the time she sat down on The Bob Rivers Show, she owned her own production company, a website and a clothing line. The hosts called her "the Martha Stewart of p*rn."
The first question was whether she's comfortable with her choice. "Of course I am. Why would I blame anybody?" she says. Then she said what nobody in the room wanted to say out loud: it's the number one search term in the world. "Everybody watches p*rn." In the studio, a mom sitting with her daughter was shaking her head no.
The hosts asked how much of it she actually enjoys. "I'm not in love with the guys I work with. It's fun, it's just s*x," she says. She writes the guys' paychecks, and nobody ever forced her into anything. Then she turned it around: "You guys all seem uncomfortable in this room." They admitted it. They said they weren't a shock show, just ordinary guys. And they all had wives.
She says her career was "all about empowerment over exploitation." Her big moment was landing at the Cannes Film Festival to signs and police escorts everywhere. "I remember thinking, wow, I'm like the Demi Moore of p*rn." She's done four USO tours, a part in Blades of Glory and a book.
Then came the question the whole segment was building to. If a rich guy offered her a hundred grand just to come over, no camera, would she go? And wouldn't that make it the same thing as prostitution? Her answer is in the clip.
Half the internet calls her a businesswoman who beat the industry at its own game. The other half says owning the company doesn't change what the product is. Almost nobody notices that in a room full of grown men, she was the only one who wasn't uncomfortable.
She talked about s*x for a living without blinking. The men interviewing her were the ones who said they felt uncomfortable.
Was Tera Patrick a nurse who simply found a better business, or a woman who learned to call it empowerment so it wouldn't hurt?
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Porn star Pinky's father has been locked up since she was 17. In prison he watches whatever he can get his hands on, and he's a big fan of another p*rn star, Cherokee. When his own daughter shows up in the same orgy scene, he just fast-forwards to someone else.
She was supposed to be the one who made it. A scholarship to a special high school in Minnesota, violin, ballet, a shelf of awards. Everyone knew she was going to college. She didn't, and after years of recitals her mom had one rule: "Tell me first. I don't want to know from somebody in the street."
So before she shot a single scene, Pinky sat her mom down and laid out the whole plan. She'd do it independently, sell her own DVDs in the club, build a website, then shoot for other companies and blow up. Her mom kept repeating the same thing: "I don't want to hear it." Then she convinced herself, and Pinky's grandmother, that her daughter wasn't doing p*rn at all. She was just "taking nasty pictures."
That lasted until Pinky started showing up in magazines and in the little ads in the back. People kept mentioning her name. Her mom couldn't believe she was that popular, and Pinky says she still doesn't understand how popular. Now it's "my baby, my baby."
Telling her father was worse. She says it was hard enough admitting she danced at the club, and people from San Francisco had already told him. With p*rn, she was "really embarrassed." "That's embarrassing that my father sees me f*cking on film," she says. "But it is what it is."
His answer came from a prison fire camp. "I love you," he told her. As long as she's protecting herself, as long as it's what she wants and nobody's making her do it. He still has 4 years left. He might get out early for good behavior.
Half the internet calls it the most supportive dad in America. The other half says no father should ever be in that position. Almost nobody talks about the fact that he's not skipping her scenes out of shame. He's skipping them because he still has to watch.
She was the kid who got the scholarship. Her dad watches her career from a prison cell, one fast-forward at a time.
Was Pinky a grown woman who built a business on her own terms, or a girl who never stopped performing for a family that was never in the room?
Briana Banks was a Vivid contract p*rn star, naked in a Pittsburgh hotel room with crack all over the bed, when someone pounded on the door. Three cops slammed her against the wall in handcuffs and beat her boyfriend in the bathroom. The next day they let him go. Because of her.
She was in town to feature at a club called Blush, a place she'd danced "a million times." The club had a hotel attached, but she stayed across the street at a DoubleTree with her boyfriend Bobby. "We were smoking crack the whole trip," she says. At some point he said he'd be back and walked out. She was strung out and exhausted.
He came back, they each took one hit, and then came a knock. "Housekeeping." She said no thank you. Then the pounding started: "Open the door." They looked at each other and didn't say a word. "We knew exactly what was going down."
She opened the door "buck naked." Three officers shoved her into the wall and cuffed her, then dragged him into the bathroom. "They beat the living sh*t out of him. I could hear it happening." Pipes and crack were everywhere. He had bought from an undercover cop in the middle of a huge sting, and he had paid with her Polaroid money from the club. "Please don't arrest me, I have to work tonight," she begged.
They took him away and gave her 10 minutes to pack and get out. She chain-smoked the whole time, sure they were coming back. That night she still danced. Not one girl in the club would talk to her. "Everyone thought I was a f*cking rat."
The next day she went to get him out. He had warrants in other states, and they were going to keep him. Then the cops realized who he was. "You're Briana Banks' boyfriend." They let him walk. "They didn't know that I was a loser myself at that point," she says. "I felt like I was on the biggest white-trash episode of Cops ever."
Half the internet calls her a crackhead who got what was coming. The other half says she was a kid dragged down by an older addict. Almost nobody notices that the only thing that got him out of jail was her name.
The cops slammed her against a wall. Then they let him walk because of who she was.
Was Briana Banks a grown woman who chose that life, or a 21-year-old who didn't know how to leave a 34-year-old man?
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Freya Parker started bleeding all over the floor, completely naked, on the set of a Brad Pitt movie. Margot Robbie was standing right above her. Then a p*rn star screamed one sentence across the room, 20 feet from Brad Pitt. Freya spent the next 25 minutes hiding in a bathroom.
Freya did exactly one mainstream movie in her life. Damien Chazelle's Babylon. She was hired as a nude extra for the giant party scene.
She walks into the ballroom, takes her clothes off, looks over, and Brad Pitt is just sitting there.
"I'm butt-ass naked in the same room as Brad Pitt."
The scene: Margot Robbie dances her way through the crowd of naked extras and jumps up on top of a piano. They shoot it over and over. Four, five hours on the same take. At some point the crew stops applying fake sweat to Margot because she's sweating for real.
Freya is jumping up and down, fully naked, doing her thing.
Then she feels warmth. In a freezing cold ballroom.
She looks down. There's blood. Everywhere. All over her, all over the floor, and other people's footprints already tracked through it.
Freya has endometriosis. It was coming from her.
And then the male p*rn performer in the scene, without a second of hesitation, starts yelling at the top of his lungs:
"Someone get this girl a tampon! Someone get this girl a tampon right now!"
Brad Pitt is 20 feet away. Margot Robbie is on top of the piano, looking down at the blood on the floor and the blood on Freya.
Olive, another performer in the scene, grabs the guy's arm: "Stop talking. Stop shouting. Just stop."
Freya starts panicking. She can't find her robe. There are a thousand people on set, and not one of them can tell her where the bathroom is.
So she walks around naked, covered in blood.
Finally a random woman wraps a jacket around Freya's waist and walks her to a bathroom. Freya asks if she has anything. She doesn't.
Freya sits in that bathroom for 25 minutes until someone finally shows up with one tampon.
"On a p*rn set we would have had baby wipes, tampons, pads, sponges. We would have been so prepared."
The one time she did a Hollywood movie. With two of the biggest stars on the planet.
"Dude, what is wrong with you? Do you hate me? Is this revenge for something?"
No more mainstream sets for her.
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Farrah Abraham was 17 and eight months pregnant when she stood over the casket of her baby's father. She kept waiting for him to open his eyes. Then his sister stepped in front of the casket and demanded to know if the baby was even his. Farrah was thrown out of the funeral.
She was the girl from MTV's "16 and Pregnant." Months earlier, a fight between her boyfriend Derek and her father had ended with a knife, a 911 call and a court order. They were not allowed to speak until the case was settled. The last time she saw him, she was five months pregnant with his daughter.
Then one morning she snuck a call to her friend Katie. Her mom kept her away from her friends, so she had to hide it. Katie said one sentence: "Derek died in a car crash last night." That was it. Another friend died in the same car.
Her parents didn't want her at the visitation. Even the MTV crew didn't want her to go. Two teenage girlfriends drove her anyway. "It wasn't a camera crew. It was just them doing the right thing."
She looked at his blonde hair and thought: "Were you having your crazy nights again?" She remembered every stupid fight. Every time she'd screamed, "I will never be there if you die." She showed up anyway. And his family told her she shouldn't be there.
After that she couldn't stop crying. She got kicked out of college classes. She was put on suicide watch and started a pile of medication. A few weeks later she gave birth to Sophia, and millions watched her on TV.
Half the internet still calls her the worst mom in reality TV history. The other half never heard that she spent those months on suicide watch.
Today Sophia is about to turn 18. Farrah is already looking at houses for her. She says she still struggled for years to find closure.
Millions of people watched her pregnancy on MTV. When she stood at his casket, the only people on her side were two teenage girls.
Was Farrah a broken teenager the world turned into a punchline, or a girl who sold her own tragedy for fame?
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Salome Salvi was sexually abused at 8 years old. She told her parents. They believed her - then pretended it never happened. Her mother mocked her gums and clothes in front of guests. Told she was ugly every single day. Believed she would die a virgin. Built a 30,000-follower adult platform from nothing. Graduated from the University of the Philippines in Fine Arts. Now acts in TV and film.
And then there's the interview where she reveals what actually happened inside that household - and it's more disturbing than you think.
The person who abused her was a family friend. A kid she used to play with. When she told her parents they acknowledged it once. Then every time she brought it up again they shut her down. "You're imagining that. That never happened. You're crazy."
Her parents kept inviting that person into their home. Drinking with him. Receiving him as a guest. While their daughter begged them to keep him away.
One time she brought it up while her abuser was sitting in their living room. Her parents told her to stop throwing a tantrum because she was embarrassing them.
She learned the only lesson a kid in that position can learn - the truth gets you punished. Lies keep you safe. So she grew up hiding everything just to survive.
She had to build a 30,000-follower platform, show her body to strangers, and become a completely different person - just to prove to herself that everything her parents drilled into her head was a lie.
The most unbreakable woman on the internet - and her own parents were the ones who tried the hardest to destroy her.
Is Salome the product of everything that tried to break her - or proof that some people were never meant to stay broken?
Farrah Abraham was 17 and eight months pregnant when she stood over the casket of her baby's father. She kept waiting for him to open his eyes. Then his sister stepped in front of the casket and demanded to know if the baby was even his. Farrah was thrown out of the funeral.
She was the girl from MTV's "16 and Pregnant." Months earlier, a fight between her boyfriend Derek and her father had ended with a knife, a 911 call and a court order. They were not allowed to speak until the case was settled. The last time she saw him, she was five months pregnant with his daughter.
Then one morning she snuck a call to her friend Katie. Her mom kept her away from her friends, so she had to hide it. Katie said one sentence: "Derek died in a car crash last night." That was it. Another friend died in the same car.
Her parents didn't want her at the visitation. Even the MTV crew didn't want her to go. Two teenage girlfriends drove her anyway. "It wasn't a camera crew. It was just them doing the right thing."
She looked at his blonde hair and thought: "Were you having your crazy nights again?" She remembered every stupid fight. Every time she'd screamed, "I will never be there if you die." She showed up anyway. And his family told her she shouldn't be there.
After that she couldn't stop crying. She got kicked out of college classes. She was put on suicide watch and started a pile of medication. A few weeks later she gave birth to Sophia, and millions watched her on TV.
Half the internet still calls her the worst mom in reality TV history. The other half never heard that she spent those months on suicide watch.
Today Sophia is about to turn 18. Farrah is already looking at houses for her. She says she still struggled for years to find closure.
Millions of people watched her pregnancy on MTV. When she stood at his casket, the only people on her side were two teenage girls.
Was Farrah a broken teenager the world turned into a punchline, or a girl who sold her own tragedy for fame?