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INTERVIEW | | By Dan Miller
Brett Rossi Returns
Trenchcoatx contract star reflects on Charlie Sheen fallout
Brett Rossi decided to approach her return to porn
a lot like she has tackled her personal life in recent
months—without holding anything back.
Her new showcase Delicious features the former
Twistys contract performer, Penthouse Pet and Playboy
Cyber Girl in four hardcore encounters unlike any she’s
done so far.
Calling the project “not only the rebirth of my career,
but me personally,” the 26-year-old star kicked off
her new exclusive, boy/girl performing contract with
Trenchcoatx with a nothing-to-lose attitude.
“Go big or go home,” Rossi told AVN.
A native of Fontana, California, who did runway
modeling as a teen and worked at a mattress store
before porn, Rossi entered this new phase of her career
with a body of work consisting of almost 100 girl/girl
scenes and just one previous boy/girl since her porn
debut in 2010.
But in Delicious Rossi performs with guys in all four
vignettes, appearing in separate tussles with Manuel
Ferrara and Charles Dera, her first three-way with two
men—Tommy Gunn and Dera—and her first blowbang
in which she takes on seven guys.
“I feel like I was so suppressed, even when I was in
the business when I did girl/girl,” said Rossi, who came
back in December after a two-and-a-half year hiatus.
Rossi’s return is happening at the same time as
her high-profile litigation with Charlie Sheen, her
ex-fiancee whom she filed suit against in December,
accusing the actor of assault and battery, emotional
distress, false imprisonment and negligence.
She also said that Sheen hid his HIV-positive status
from her while engaging in unprotected sex with her.
Sheen responded with court documents asking that
Rossi’s suit be dismissed with prejudice and now an
arbitrator will decide if the suit must be resolved in
arbitration or sent back to a judge.
“I am just speaking up for everyone who is too
scared to have a voice and it doesn’t matter if it’s a
celebrity or someone with a lot of money and power,”
Rossi said. “A lot of women who are in abusive
relationships are very scared
to speak up. People ask me, ‘Well if
he was so abusive why didn’t you
speak up?’ Who the fuck is going
to believe me? He can pay off
anyone. I witnessed a lot of
things that people with that
amount of money can get
away with.”
Rossi’s relationship with
Sheen started in November
2013 and ended in October
2014. But after he went
public with his HIV status
on Nov. 17, 2015, and
backed out
of a settlement agreement with Rossi, she moved forward with her lawsuit.
“It was very hard to come out and be all over national television and say this is what happened to me. The
reason why women don’t speak up is they’re afraid of what everyone said about me: ‘She’s a liar. Why didn’t
she do X, Y and Z?’” Rossi explained. “I did it not only for the women who suffer in silence in hopes that it
gives them strength to speak up, I did it for my own sanity. This was something that I had to heal from and
the first step of healing is admitting what happened and not taking blame for it. I used to blame myself up
until the day I came out and admitted publicly on national television what he did to me.”
Rossi said going into the relationship she was “a very confident, independent person.”
“When I left that relationship I was a shell of a person I used to be. I was a completely different person. So
it’s crazy but you learn from those experiences,” she added.
Rossi emphasized she does not have HIV and took every precaution to insure she was safe before returning
to adult.
“That is the reason why I didn’t just come back to porn. I wanted to be responsible,” she said. “Even
though I was tested on a regular basis when I was with him. I was tested every three months. Just as he was
tested every three months for his levels, I was tested when we were in our relationship and I was on the PrEP
treatment. But, that’s not a guarantee.”
PrEP, which stands for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, is a way for people who don’t have HIV but who are at
high risk of getting it to prevent infection by taking a pill every day.
“I kept testing negative and after about a year I said, well, I’m in the clear now. I’m not going to put anyone
in danger. And it was important for me not to put anyone in danger,” she said.
Still, Rossi realizes there now are misconceptions out there about her that she deals with on a weekly basis.
“I know a lot of clubs have cancelled bookings because of my association with Charlie. It’s been difficult
and I think it’s unfair,” Rossi said, adding that an HIV-positive diagnosis is like “a scarlet letter.”
Rossi said with today’s advanced testing that a person will know whether he has HIV in “anywhere from
three to six months at the latest.”
“But what a lot of people do misunderstand because they think and they’ll read, ‘Oh the testing is so
advanced you’ll find out within a week of exposure.’ That is true, but some people’s immune systems are a lot
stronger. HIV can stay dormant without being traced, now, according to my research and I worked with the
best doctors, for up to a year,” Rossi said.
Rossi took PrEP for a year-and-a-half.
“When I was tested I wanted to make sure it wasn’t a false negative,” she added.
Meanwhile, Rossi is about half done with a book series she started in 2013 called Lemonade.
“It’s a fictional series loosely based off my life, but it’s about a girl named Jane,” Rossi explained. “But what
I really like about Lemonade is it’s told in real time. So the first book is Lemonade. The second book is Hard
Lemonade and the third book is Pink Lemonade.
“When I originally started writing it I was still with Charlie. It was not going to be a trashy tell-all memoir.
It was just a trilogy series loosely based on my life. And the moral of the story was that you can start over
as many times as you want in life to get what you’re working towards.”
While she remains in talks with a couple of well-known publishers for the book rights she
recently started a blog called Brett Rossi’s Lemonade and intends to begin releasing chapters
of the book there.
From being Mansion to meeting predictable. discovered by Playboy Morning Show host Andrea Lowell at the Playboy
becoming Miss Howard Stern, diving into porn, quitting and then
Sheen, the past nine years of Rossi’s life have been anything but
But armed with her new outlook and the perspective of
time, she admitted “everything has always fallen
into place.”
“I don’t know how I get
myself into the positions I
do, but it always seems to
work out in the end,”
Rossi said.
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