WTF! These Celebrities Left the Acting World Behind to Pursue Porn

Scott Schwartz from A Christmas Story.

Best known for playing Flick in A Christmas Story, Scott later transitioned from child star to adult film star.

“At the time, financially, I wasn’t doing very well,” he said. “Royalties from movies don’t pay a lot. It was something I looked at as off-the-norm for someone of my background. But rather than buy some coke and do eighty down Sunset with a sign that said ‘Arrest me,’ I decided to take that path.”

Jaimee Foxworth from Family Matters.

You might know her as Judy from Family Matters, but the former child star left the TV world and found a new home in adult entertainment. “My family fell on hard times so I started doing things that probably wasn’t [sic] the best decision for young women,” she said.

Dustin Diamond from Saved by the Bell.

He was best known for playing Screech on Saved by the Bell, but when he ran into money issues in 2006, he turned to porn. “At the time everyone was doing a sex tape,” he said. “So my friend said, ‘Damn, buddy! A Screech video’s gotta be worth at least a million!’ I was like, ‘You know, you might be right!'”

Rachel Swimmer from Laguna Beach.

Although she’s best known for appearing in season three of Laguna Beach, Rachel — who currently goes by her porn name, “Tasha Reign” — now makes adult films for a living.

“I actually knew I wanted to be naked in front of the camera since I was in high school,” she said. “I went to L.A. Direct Models in Studio City (Calif.), and I just walked through the door and asked them if I can be a porn star.”

Chris Crocker from the “Leave Britney Alone!” video.

The Internet star, famous for his viral videos, released Chris Crocker’s Raw Love in 2014 with hopes it would boost his acting career — it didn’t.

“A lot of people think the Britney video is what got me famous and what gave me all these opportunities, but if I were to have gone to L.A. as an unknown actor—I probably could have gotten a lot more work,” he said. “I don’t regret it necessarily; I think it just gives me more hurdles to overcome…Which, you know… and obviously doing the porn thing didn’t necessarily help me.”

Nadya “Octomom” Suleman

She made headlines back in 2009 for giving birth to octuplets. To help pay the bills to feed all 14 of her children, she turned to porn.

“The last two years of it were so dark. We were on the verge of homelessness, so rather than put my kids in front of the camera, I decided to put myself out there,” she said.

Former soap opera actress Kelli McCarty.

This former Miss USA who appeared in the soap Passions turned to porn once she found herself out of a job.

“I just sat on the idea [to do porn] and started looking into other companies,” she said. “That’s when I approached Vivid [Entertainment] and they were like, ‘Yeah, let’s make a movie.'”

Tom Sizemore from Saving Private Ryan.

Although he’s a major celebrity who has starred in films like Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawn Down, in 2005 he released his own sex tape, _ The Tom Sizemore Sex Scandal_. In the video, he has sex with several women and even brags about having sex with a then 19-year-old Paris Hilton.

Jonell Green from A Different World.

She played Dashawn Curtis on A Different World, but now she’s playing a different role — adult film star. Under her porn name (“Aryana Starr”) she has released films like It’s All Pink on the Inside and Thicka Than a Snicka 9.

Stephen Geoffreys from Fright Night.

Best known for playing Evil Ed in the original Fright Night movie, the actor went on to star in a slew of gay adult films under his porn name, “Sam Ritter.”