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“So I paid out of my own pocket for this quack of a lady who I’m pretty sure was not a licensed therapist, just some random lady, like a preacher, a pastor, who knows... and I listened to all these tapes. There was a moment where she had me recite all the people I’ve slept with and I was like I don’t keep count. I have genuinely no idea.
“That was kind of the straw that broke the camel’s back. I was like this is way beyond. This is not what I want to be involved in at all. This is too much and this is not right.”
Strella tells AVN, “I didn’t really buy into the whole religion thing, I bought into the idea that hey I’m going to retire by the time I’m 25.”
“And you see all these people with money, cars, private jets, boats and all that and you buy in because you see the fruit on the tree,” Cami adds. “You believe these people because clearly they’re doing something right. Even from just as a young adult I always wanted to win at something. I’m just sure they never thought it would be porn.”
Indeed, Strella admits she “never thought in a million years” that she’d be a full time professional in the adult industry but here she is.
Strella eventually earned her undergraduate degree in Conflict Analysis and Resolution. And along the way she learned a range of skills such as how to negotiate contracts and how government nonprofits work.
“But I didn’t finish my graduate degree. It was in Occupational Therapy with a specialty in Neurology,” she says, explaining that in the fall of 2021 one of her fellow grad school students found a viral video of hers on TikTok that was based on her selling her partner’s used cum rag.
“And then a bunch of girls in my class found out and it made it very difficult for me to stay in my program so I left,” Cami adds. “They pushed me out of the program but it was for the best. Being in healthcare was not really long term what I wanted to do.”
Strella grew up in Fredericksburg, a small town in Northern Virginia, splitting time between there and North Carolina, where her father owned a beach property.
“I would go and spend summers there, so I kind of got used to being in Virginia and North Carolina quite a bit,” she says.
Cami recalls always being a sexually curious person—even exploring sugaring in her younger adult years.
“A lot of girls have this idea to hang out and date this rich, old man,” Strella says. “I ended up mentoring these sugar daddies I would have.
“They were like, ‘How do you know so much about business?’ Little did they know I was in a cult that taught me about business.
“I like doing things that are a little bit against the grain. And it felt very taboo and different for me.”
Strella reveals she also once worked for a port-a-potty company and a pest control company; and for a span she taught kids how to dance.
“I’ve done a lot of random jobs,” Cami says. “I did whatever I could. It was mostly a byproduct of my ADHD. Doing porn is really what stuck the longest.
“I’ve been in the adult industry for six, seven years now. So it really stuck, finally.”
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