A sex-worker has opened up on the reality of her profession which fuels her $100-a-day fentanyl addiction.
Alexis Nelson, a 32-year-old escort and OnlyFans model from Lake City, Florida, only started escorting two years ago, but is already trapped in a vicious cycle.
She took it up because her friend said she "was pretty and could make a lot of money."
It helped stave off her greatest fear - withdrawal from drugs which she now relies on to face her profession.
Alexis Nelson, a 32-year-old escort and OnlyFans model from Lake City, Florida, only started escorting two years ago, but is already trapped in a vicious cycle.
She took it up because her friend said she "was pretty and could make a lot of money."
It helped stave off her greatest fear - withdrawal from drugs which she now relies on to face her profession.
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00:00Hi, my name is Alexis, and I'm an escort and an OnlyFans model.
00:04I started OnlyFans about two years ago.
00:08It takes a lot of advertising that you gotta pay for.
00:12It's a lot of work that goes into it because you have to make sure you constantly have pictures up.
00:16You know, new pictures that you haven't taken before.
00:20You know, lots of lingerie that you have to invest in.
00:24It's a lot of investing, but it's alright, I guess.
00:28I'm making alright money, but
00:32I actually make a whole bunch more when I'm escorting because
00:36I will go out on a date for an hour and I can make a few hundred bucks.
00:40I can make at least a thousand dollars in one day, you know, if I really try.
00:44Usually I don't really try that hard because I'll have one date and then I'll be good
00:48for the rest of the day or whatever. But if I tried and I had a couple dates
00:52in one day, I could easily make a thousand dollars.
00:56I would like to get out of the lifestyle.
01:00Honestly, because with this lifestyle,
01:04I also use methamphetamine and fentanyl.
01:08That's really hard. I've been addicted to meth since I was about 18,
01:12but the fentanyl came along about four years ago.
01:16It just helps when I'm on those drugs because I kind of dissociate a little bit
01:20when I'm using and doing my dates.
01:24I don't have to feel like such a piece of shit, honestly.
01:28That's a lot of money if you think about it, but if you think about it, I'm using about
01:32a quarter to half of it on
01:36drugs. Fentanyl is not very cheap around here.
01:40It's actually pretty expensive. Half of it goes to drugs and then I'm
01:44left with barely any. Sometimes I don't even eat. My friend actually introduced me to
01:48escorting. He's one of my guy friends.
01:52There's this website. It's called Skip the Games.
01:56You go on there. You make an ad.
02:00You put in all your information for your services
02:04and stuff like that. Then you put your phone number in there.
02:08That's when people start contacting you. Then you go from there
02:12for your dates. I don't really talk to my family very often.
02:16When my grandmother was alive, she always helped me when I was going
02:20through my drug addictions and stuff, but now she passed
02:24away, so I don't really have any type of support system whatsoever. That's another reason
02:28why I haven't gotten clean yet. It's kind of like a snake
02:32eating its own tail, my situation.
02:36I'm addicted to drugs. I have no job.
02:40I have nowhere to live besides this hotel room, but
02:44I can't get a job because I have no car. I can't get
02:48there. How am I supposed to get there?
02:52Even if I did get a job,
02:56it wouldn't be nearly as much as I make right now doing what I'm doing.
03:00In order to do what I'm doing, I have to be high. There's no way around
03:04it. I have to be high. I cannot do this sober. I will feel too shitty
03:08about myself, and I'll start hating myself. It takes a little
03:12piece of my soul each time I do it. It just feels like the definition of insanity.
03:16Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, and it never happens.
03:20I hope I can get clean. I went to rehab a few months ago, and I made it
03:24about a month or two clean after I got out of rehab,
03:28but then something bad happened, and because
03:32I don't know how to regulate my emotions, or
03:36I don't know how to deal with my emotions,
03:40I go straight back to drugs, so I started using again,
03:44and here I am.
03:48For the future, I'd hope to be off drugs, and stay
03:52off of them, and get a good job, and just live the American Dream.
03:56I'd like to have kids someday. I'm 32 years old. I'm getting
04:00older. My biological clock is ticking. My husband is in prison, so I
04:04got a little while to wait to have children or something like that,
04:08but I'd like to have a family and have a real life
04:12and not do this, be looked at like a piece of
04:16steak or just somebody's possession. I'm so tired of that.
04:20It gets so tiring. All you're looked at is just
04:24as an accessory or something, and I don't like that
04:28at all. I just feel stuck.