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“I’m very open and honest and willing to share my truth even if at times it might seem like a little bit much.”
She kept the momentum going for a while in spite of making some lifestyle choices off the set that weren’t conducive to reaching her full potential.
By 2017, however, Kenzie admits that she was struggling to hold it together.
“I used alcohol and drugs as a coping mechanism for how I felt internally,” Taylor says. “Drugs and alcohol weren’t the problem at the end of the day, it was myself.”
The tipping point came in December 2017, when Taylor hit “an emotional bottom, a spiritual bottom”—and checked herself into a treatment facility, where she stayed for 33 days.
“Every single day for nine months I wanted to die,” Kenzie tells AVN. “I woke up and I was like I don’t even want to be here.
“It’s a miracle I’m alive today to be honest with you.”
When Taylor got out of treatment, she attended meetings and didn’t return to work for months. “I needed to learn how to live with myself—not using drugs and alcohol to cope—and start
to do healthy things in my life,” she says.
Determined to change, she developed a gym routine and began attending weekly therapy
sessions—she still sees her therapist every week.
“I love my therapist,” Taylor says. “She helped change my life.”
So did her husband Seth Gamble, the reigning AVN Male Performer of the Year and Best
Actor who is in his 17th year in adult.
Taylor calls Gamble one of her “biggest inspirations.”
“Because I watched him go from basically dying on a floor to where he is today and it’s like
so phenomenal,” Kenzie tells AVN. “It’s incredible to see that. He’s the biggest supporter in my life and I’m just really grateful for that.”
Kenzie and Seth met at the 2016 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas and started dating later that summer—and they’ve been married for the past two years after a fairtytale wedding in Oahu, Hawaii, where they lived for eight months.
During their seven years together they both experienced the lowest of lows—and never gave up on each other.
“And he got sober before I did,” Kenzie says. “He got sober in February of 2017 and I got sober in December of 2017.
“I got sober and everything changed from there. It was very difficult at the beginning because you had two people that are learning about themselves and growing and changing rapidly.”
The Miami, Fla., native Gamble tells AVN he has gone through so much with his wife.
“When I first met her it was pre-sobriety. I wasn’t sober yet, neither was she,” Seth says. “I guess you could say both of our priorities in life were a little bit different.
“I feel that someone who lives that type of lifestyle hasn’t really grown into being an adult. Me and her really grew up together and became adults. From the day I met her until now she has really, really come a long way. She’s really put the effort in. ... She’s relentless.”
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