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When Adriana Chechik won AVN Female Performer of the Year in 2017, it came right on the heels of Donald Trump becoming President of the United States ... thus prompting her to utter one of the most memorable lines in AVN Awards history: “First Donald Trump and now Adriana Chechik, Female Performer of the Year.”
Now seven years later, as Trump is vying—legal troubles be damned—for a second term in the White House, Chechik too is getting her ducks lined up for her own return to porn domination.
“Oh my god, that’s hysterical,” Chechik laughs when we point out this concurrence of events. “What are the odds?”
To some, the odds may seem decidedly low, considering that as recently as this past January, she made public comments indicating she had turned the page, so to speak, and would not be stepping foot in front of a porn camera again.
But she’s the first to tell you that at the time, her outlook was clouded by the long recovery battle she’d been fighting—and continues to fight—since the horrific spinal injury she sustained in October 2022 when she leapt into a too-shallow foam pit during an appearance at TwichCon in San Diego.
“I had some moments throughout my injury where I was mentally struggling with everything that was going on, and I kind of had some identity crisis because my life was adult movies and porn, and that was instantly taken away from me,” she explains. “I mentally got really angry, and was like, ‘I don’t even like porn,’ and I kind of publicly—I did publicly—say a lot of crazy things.
“And what I realized through this whole experience, now that my back has healed and now that I’ve had the time to mentally cope with it and heal, is that I haven’t had any overall bad experiences, and I don’t hate porn, but I’ve had bad days, like any other job. And I think the fact that it was all taken away, and so many people were like, there’s so many other things you can do, that I needed to believe that there was something else I was gonna do to get out of it. But now that I’m feeling healthy and able to move around, it’s kind of the only thing that I’ve had, like, the fire type passion in me to do.
“I love video gaming, that’s definitely a big second love, and I’m so happy I got into that space, but porn is ... I don’t know, I get a competitive drive, and I also feel like I’ve built this huge empire with my fans, and the fact that I was able to sustain my income throughout my whole injury just based on how awesome they were to me, I was like, I don’t want to walk away from such a big fanbase, you know? So that’s where I am now.”
To be a bit more precise, Chechik has in fact stepped foot in front of a porn camera or 14 in recent days. Thus far, it has been scenes with other creators for OnlyFans, but very soon, she’ll be returning full force to studio scenes.
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