Perhaps more than anything, Alexis has a passion for music. Multiple times per weekâsometimes even after a shootâAlexis goes to an elite sound studio in Hollywood to record songs sheâs written. Just as she has lofty ambitions in porn, Alexis is thinking big when it comes to music.
âIâm everywhere all at once,â she laughs. âIâm omnipresent. Porn can be great, but you also need other outlets and avenues. Otherwise, I donât think itâs the best for your mental health if porn is your whole world. Life is short, so you might as well explore every possible avenue.
âMost people say you canât give 100 percent in two industries, but Iâm doing it.â
More than anything, Alexis has earned respect for her kindness. Sheâs the type who brings a housewarming gift to a party, the girl who texts directors thank-you messages after shoots, the friend who checks in on someone who is struggling.
When Alexis was out of town earlier this year, performer Avery Black stopped by her apartment and assembled some furniture Alexis had ordered online. When Alexis returned, she prepared a gourmet meal for Black that included a rack of lamb and roasted vegetables sheâd purchased at a farmerâs market.
âThen we drank wine and watched Sex in the City,â Black said. âThereâs something about Scarlett that cuts deep into your heart the second you meet her. She values relationships. Sheâs very real and caring and sweet, but thereâs also no bullshit about her. Sheâs impossible not to love.â
Thatâs why it was heart-wrenching for Blackâand the rest of the adult industryâto see Alexis so downtrodden this fall, when alarming health issues surfaced once again.
Alexis had noticed lumps in her breasts since she was 17, but thermal imaging exams and ultrasounds performed over the next few years didnât indicate any signs of cancer. Still, one of the lumps in her right breast continued to grow rapidly. And over the past year it became painful.
Doctors at Cedars Sinai performed another ultrasound on Alexis and discovered seven masses in her right breast and five in her left. Nine of them were classified as fibrocystic tissue, which is non-cancerous and not a cause for concern. But the other three lumpsâwhich were much largerâwere deemed to be tumors.
âThey said when a tumor gets to be three centimeters or larger, they get very concerned and want to remove it,â Alexis said. âThe big one is eight-and-a-half centimeters. The other two are four or five.â
Alexis said the lumps were diagnosed as Phyllodes tumors.
âThatâs a very rare condition,â Alexis said. âLess than one percent of tumors are Phyllodes. They donât form where breast cancer usually forms. Instead of the ducts, they form in the tissue. They donât respond to normal cancer treatment, like chemo.â
The average lifespan once you get diagnosed with Phyllodes tumors is five years. Even if they were removed, told Alexis there was a risk they could come back, which could cause her body to get cancer. But that risk would be much lower if they were gone.
Surgery was scheduled for Nov. 18. Black launched a GoFundMe campaign for Alexis that raised nearly $11,000.
âIt was hard to process at first,â Alexis says. âIâm 24 and I have these two conditions that are lifelong. I tried to bury my stress, but it freaked me out.â
It was that anxietyâcoupled with a concussion sustained in a car wreckâthat likely triggered Alexisâ mini-stroke in the Lyft, which occurred about two weeks before her surgery. There was even a fear that her brain wouldnât be able to handle the stress of going under anesthesia to have the lumps removed.
âIt was crazy,â Black says. âHow can the nicest person have such bad luck?â
But after performing the CAT scan that afternoon, doctors cleared her for the operation, and the procedure was deemed a success.
After a month of recovery, Alexis shot one scene for Nubiles in late December, with the directors filming her at angles that hid her scars. She expects to return to work full-time in January.
âIt changed me,â Alexis says of her most recent surgery. âWhen youâre young, you feel invincible. You feel like you can do whatever because youâve got enough time to worry about it later. Now I pay much more attention to my health and living responsibly. And I prioritize reducing stress in my life.
âIf thereâs a person who is causing me a lot of anxiety or not treating me right, theyâre gone. I have a much shorter fuse for that now. Iâve learned to put myself first.â
With her health in check, her porn and music careers thriving and a community thatâs embraced her, Alexis is entering 2024 with more momentum than ever before. She has long-term goals and ambitions, to be sure. But if her past has taught her anything, itâs not just to eye the destination, but to enjoy the ride.
âIâm cherishing every day, every scene, every friend, every moment,â Alexis says. âIâm going to make the most of my life.â
She pauses.
âNothing is going to stop me from doing what I want to do.â