AN investigation into the death of a porn star who killed herself due to cyberbullying has uncovered new details and a “shady character” linked to her death.
In an upcoming podcast for Audible, The Last Days of August, journalist Jon Ronson “unravels the never-before-told story” of the possible link between Twitter bullying and the death of August Ames.
Ronson began looking into the case at the request of Ames’ husband, porn producer Kevin Moore. And according to The Daily Beast, his investigation has now uncovered a “triggering event” and “shady character” linked to the starlet’s death.
Ames took her own life in December 2017 after backlash to tweets stating that she would not work with “crossovers” – men who had appeared in gay adult movies.
She tweeted: “Whichever (lady) performer is replacing me tomorrow for @EroticaXNew, you’re shooting with a guy who has shot gay porn, just to let cha know.”
While many supported her, the 23-year-old was branded a homophobe and bullied online by other adult performers, with one gay porn star saying the world was “awaiting your apology or for you to swallow a cyanide pill”.
Ames had been bullied online following a tweet she put out that some people perceived as homophobic
Late last year an Audible spokesperson promoting the podcast said: “What neither Kevin nor Ronson realised was that Ronson would soon hear rumours and secrets hinting at a very different story — something mysterious and unexpected and terrible.”
In a trailer for the series coming in January 2019, Ronson speaks to porn star Jessica Drake.
“I’ve become this really weird container of knowledge,” she tells Ronson during an interview in her Las Vegas hotel room featured in the trailer.
“People are coming to me and they’re telling me things about him, and her, their relationship and so much stuff, and I feel like somebody needs to say it but I can’t say it because I’m the fricking a**hole in this situation. Somebody has to help me. Somebody has to say it.”
Three days later, Ames sent her final tweet: “F**k y’all.”
She was found the next day dead in a park 20 minutes from her home. It was later revealed she left a note for her parents apologising for taking her own life.
Ames’ death exposed the rift between the gay and straight porn industry and sparked a major debate about cyber-bullying, stigmatisation and mental health.
In the Audible trailer, Moore tells Ronson about the last time he saw his wife alive.
He said: “She couldn’t look away from that phone. I would constantly be like, ‘Let’s get away from this.’ And she would be like, ‘Oh, OK’, and then she would fall right back into it. She said, ‘I’m going to go tanning, I’m going to go to the gym’. We hugged and said ‘I love you’ to each other. She walked out that door and disappeared.”
He adds that he knows “no one believes me but she hugged me and kissed me”. “She acted normal. I should have stopped her,” he said.
“Within an hour of her leaving I had started texting her and no response. I must have called her thousands of times that night. I have never felt dread like that. And then the next morning was when the coroners contacted me. She had taken her life in a park in Camarillo.”
In statement in January this year, Moore — who still posts tweets from his deceased wife’s account — accused Drake of bullying.
“Mercedes herself said to me, ‘Jessica Drake hates me’, several hours before she disappeared,” he wrote. “Ms Drake caused irreparable harm.”
He added that just as Hollywood was having a “watershed moment”, so too was the adult industry.
“Female performers have a right to make whatever choices they want with their bodies due to the highly intimate acts they are performing,” he said.
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He told Ronson: “I’m not going to deny this, I’m angry. I lost the woman I loved to a bunch of people’s stupid opinions on social media. So am I just supposed to roll over?”
Drake denied the allegations, telling Rolling Stone in March she had since received “weeks of death threats and boycotts” and had to hire an extra bodyguard while hosting a porn industry awards show.
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