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WHO’S WHO
LADY IN RED
Holly Hendrix reflects on Best New Starlet triumph
The 19-year-old performer, who was moved to tears during her acceptance
speech on the AVN Awards stage and then again in the interview room, said even
days later it hardly seemed real.
“I still can’t believe everything,” Hendrix admitted. “I look at the pictures and
say that’s not me, this is not real. I felt kind of embarrassed, because I was crying
when I got off the stage and my makeup was messed up. I don’t want to look
crazy. I don’t want to look stupid.”
In hopes of winning, she had actually drafted a few versions of an acceptance
speech before the show, but then tossed them in the trash because she thought, “I
don’t know if I’m going to be able to even say this because in reality I probably am
not even gonna win, so why am I wasting all this time?”
“So everything just came out naturally because I was very, very shocked,”
Hendrix recalled.
When she got to the microphone she did manage to thank her agent John
O’Byrne from East Coast Talent, director Jonni Darkko, who helmed her scalding
showcase title Holly Hendrix’s Anal Experience (Darkko/Evil Angel), and “all her
favorite directors.” She said she also thanked fellow starlets Gina Valentina,
Tiffany Watson and Amara Romani.
‘OUTRAGEOUS IS THE BEST
WORD TO DESCRIBE ME.
LIKE I TOLD YOU GUYS, YOU HAVEN’T SEEN
ANYTHING YET.’
—HOLLY HENDRIX
INTERVIEW | By Dan Miller
HOLLY HENDRIX TELLS AVN she found her stunning red dress on the day of the AVN
Awards Show.
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She discovered it in her hotel room. It was rolled up into a ball, hidden under
the curtain in her suite at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
“There’s a story behind my dress,” the newly crowned AVN Best New Starlet
“I got a nice dress. I bought it for 800-900 dollars—it was really nice, a little too
big, but it wasn’t as nice as I wanted it.
“When me and Mandy [Muse] woke up in the morning on Saturday we said,
‘Whose dress is this?’ She said it wasn’t hers. And it wasn’t mine. I found it on the
floor in my room—whoever was staying in the hotel room before me left it there.
The maids just didn’t see it.
“Mandy said, ‘It’s beautiful, you should wear it.’ There were stains all over
the dress, and me and the makeup artist cleaned it. I used some safety pins and I
stuffed my bra. I felt like it was destiny. It was meant to happen, like god gave me
that dress.”
Not only was the elegant, form-fitting gown part of her destiny Saturday, so was
the highest individual honor bestowed on a new girl in the adult business, as she
accepted the coveted Best New Starlet statuette in front of the sold-out crowd at
The Joint.
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Hendrix told AVN that Valentina gave her “huge motivation and
encouragement” during the past year and that she loves her.
When the awards show ended, Hendrix remembers calling O’Byrne and good
friends Piper Perri, Kristi Ann and Alexander Ace to express her gratitude. Then
she made another video thanking everyone she could think of. “All I could focus
on was everyone, all the people that I didn’t thank on stage. I was more worried
about all my friends,” Hendrix said.
“And then at 5 or 6 a.m. I decided I wanted to go out.”
She slapped on pasties and a mini-skirt and hit three different clubs in old town
Vegas to continue her celebration.
“I got kicked out of one place because of my nipples,” Hendrix joked.
She said picking up her second award for Most Outrageous Sex Scene for her
three-way in Anal Experience with Adriana Chechik, the reigning Female Performer
of the Year, and Markus Dupree made the night extra special.
“Being awarded Most Outrageous is a really big deal for me because it’s one of
my favorite words ever. ‘Outrageous’ is the best word to describe me. Like I told
you guys, you haven’t seen anything yet. There is so much I plan on doing, so
much I plan on showing off,” Hendrix said.
In addition to already being booked solid through the end of March, she said
one of her top priorities is to launch an official website with the help of Darkko.
But first at press time she was in the midst of packing and moving permanently
to Los Angeles. She had been commuting back and forth to her hometown of
Savannah, Georgia, since the beginning of her career in May 2015. Then about a
month and a half ago she began renting an apartment in the San Fernando Valley,
but was still holding onto her place in Savannah.
“I’m definitely moving on to Cali. I feel like things are going up from here. Now
that I won Starlet I’m moving to California full time,” she said.
Meanwhile, Hendrix still has the dress she originally purchased for the AVN
Awards.
“I’ll wear it one day,” Hendrix said. “It was black with a slit down both sides
and sparkly sequins. But I’m so glad I ended up wearing the red one.”