Source: Rolling Stone Magazine

From Ian Gittler’s book Pornstar, excerpted in Rolling Stone 10-14-99

Andrea calls.  April Rayne.  I assumed, long ago, that I’d heard the last of her.  After telling her I wanted to interview her again, I hadn’t tried very hard to make it happen.  She says she’s been seeing a therapist twice a week and that sometimes she brings along her son, too.  She never made that comeback video.

I tell Andrea I still want to do an interview.  She says she’s ready.

“How old were you when you lost your virginity?” I ask.

She says that at twelve she had her first boyfriend, a twenty-eight year-old guy named Hector.  “He had the coolest Vespa,” Andrea giggles.

I ask again.

“I was raped when I was nine,” she says.  “You have to understand: My dad always called me his favorite son, y’know.  He said he wanted to teach me to be tough.  So he would drop me off in places like Sawtell, y’know, bad neighborhoods, and let me find my own way home.”

Andrea tells the story like she’s fine about it, like it is what it is.

“I wandered into some courtyard, a building with gates, y’know, and three  - I think three – black guys basically passed me around.  I know there were two more, Mexicans, standing watch by the gates.  Then I think I blacked out.  Anyway, I was more afraid of what my father would do to me when I got home.  I had a broken nose and a bloody lip – I fought – so I knew he’d know something.”

Andrea says she’s not sure whether anything happened before that or whether her father ever sexually abused her.  She describes a second rape, at fourteen: A guy pinned her against a Dumpster behind the cheesecake factory where Andrea worked.  This time she spiked the guy in his eye with one of her high-heeled shoes then ran.

“That was an easy one for the cops, ‘cause they knew who they were looking for – someone holding his eye,” Andrea says, laughing.

“What did your father do?”

“Oh, he died when I was twelve,” she says.  “Thank God.  You pretty much know what happened from there.  At twenty-two I became April Rayne.”