‘I remember after the scene, I sat in the shower for about two hours crying,’ Crystal said. ‘Then I stopped after that shoot and didn’t go back for about one month.
‘I ended up going back to it again and that’s when I was numbing myself through taking pain medicine and drinking alcohol to get through the scene.’
Crystal was soon earning $300,000 a year, bought a mansion and lived a lavish life of sports cars and alcohol-fuelled partying. She said: ‘I just lived for myself and my son and didn’t really think about the consequences of making films and dancing and everything.
‘I started to become an object. I wouldn’t walk outside my house without showing cleavage, having a belly shirt on and high heels. It was like I had to constantly look like the sex symbol.’
In 2014 however, her life changed. A brutal car crash injured her and saw her arrested for driving while intoxicated. She reconsidered her life, and sought God.
She came to faith through a church service. She said: ‘The day I was saved, I felt like the preacher was just speaking to me directly.
‘It was like he was preaching to only me and you know that day I felt God was talking to me through his preaching and everything he said felt right.
‘I got down on my knees and was just praying to God to just release me from everything and my mom was there and my sister came over and were just all crying. And that was the day I got saved.’
Crystal married David, and the two now pastor a church together.David N Crystal Bassette/ FacebookEven once she had turned her back on porn, she was contractually obliged to make one more film, an experience she describes as ‘horrible’. She now says she believes she chose the adult film industry because she was sexually abused as a child.
