PornCrush:Â Tell us a little bit about your background, your childhood, and where you grew up.
Millie:Â I was born and raised in Alabama, the very deep south. I moved to Southern California when I was a teenager. Southern California is always where I felt like I belonged, so I really felt a sense of home once I moved here. I didn't really feel like I fit in when I lived in the deep south.
So that was a pretty definitive (moment) for me, moving out here. That was my life goal. After that, it was kind of like, âWhat do I do now?
PornCrush:Â How is does life in California differ from life in the deep south?
Millie: (The differences are) endless. Goodness gracious, I mean ⌠in the south, there are churches on every corner there, you know. And thereâs really great sweet tea. Thereâs a lot of epic biodiversity in the deep south, which is really gorgeous. Like, I love all the French and the Spanish influence there. I love how theyâre intertwined. Iâm a history nerd, so I think that aspect of things is really interesting. Still, you can't really compare the two because they're two entirely different worlds.
PornCrush:Â So you get out to California when youâre in your teens. At that point in your life, what are you thinking you were going to do when you grew up? What were your goals and aspirations? What were your hobbies and interests and passions?
Millie:Â I'd always seen myself taking some sort of unconventional career path. Like when I was younger, I had visions of myself being like a blackjack dealer or a bartender. Or maybe working on a riverboat. Maybe I read too much Huck Finn.
One of my first jobs was at an old folks home. I spent a lot of time just observing people at the end of their lives. And it was pretty obvious the people who felt very fulfilled with the choices that they had made and the people who were just, like, running time off the clock. It made me want to become of those people who felt fulfilled.
PornCrush:Â Yeah. Iâm sure there were noticeable differences between the people who'd lived a happy life and the ones who had regrets..
Millie:Â Oh yeah, I mean, it spoke for itself, you know, just in terms of demeanor. It really (influenced) a lot of the choices that I would make for myself moving into adulthood. I formed this barometer of how will my end of days be and who I want to be. I want to be able to stand up and say I've done this or that.
PornCrush:Â You definitely seem to have a real upbeat, positive vibe about you. I'm sure a lot of that was kinda formed in those years.
Millie:Â Yeah, you know, seeing so much death and darkness, it teaches you to take every day for what it's worth and like live it to the fullest.
PornCrush:Â Absolutely. Moving forward, were there signs, maybe in your late teens, that sex work or the adult industry would be a part of your future?
Millie:Â I definitely think so. I thought about it for a long time before I wanted to do it. I studied acting in college. I actually have a degree in theater. And I stopped acting because I'm just too sensitive for the whole audition process.
I had told myself that if I were ever to start acting again someday, people would pick me for the roles. They would know who I am and want me. And there's really no other industry besides porn where that's the way that things function. Set every day is like a blessing because it feels for me like I'm living my dream. So yeah, there were definitely signs. Plus, I always got in trouble for flirtingâeven when I wasn't flirting. I had to make great efforts because it was known that I was not trying to flirt, but people would still make eyes at me. I just had to be very quiet.
PornCrush:Â How would you get in trouble for flirting? Like during school, in class?
Millie:Â I worked for an arts education nonprofit organization for a time, and we worked in maximum security men's prisons. Some of my last acting jobs before porn were reading scripts in men's prisons. I had to make sure that it didn't appear like I was trying to flirt with anyone or lead anyone on just because I was making eye contact. Iâm empathetic and approachable and, you know, genuinely interested in what someone has to say. Sometimes those things can easily become misconstrued. So that was something I had to be careful about.
PornCrush:Â Moving forward, how did you end up in the adult industry? What happened? Did you start dabbling in OnlyFans and camming like so many others?
Millie:Â Yes! My anniversary on OnlyFans and Chaturbate is actually this week. Itâs been three years, which is really crazy and exciting. I was single and I really needed an outlet for my sexual frustrations. It was during the pandemic and I was holed up and horny. That's how I started camming. And then I became interested in doing mainstream studio work. I started sending emails and looking (at mainstream work). It'd be really funny to dig up some of those emails, with me desperately asking directors and studios to please put me on a set. But it wasn't until I did a collab with Sean Alf and Robbie Echo that things changed.
On the same site as the collab, they were filming an episode of PornDude Casting Couch. I was like, âWhat? Sex with a mascot? Thatâs so fucking fun. How did I get involved with that?' I had actually been a high school mascot back in the day, so it felt like a full-circle moment for me to have sex with someone wearing a mascot head. I had seen it online but it was really fun to see it in person. Anyway, thatâs how I got my first scene.
PornCrush:Â You were a high school mascot?
Millie:Â Yeah, I thought it was fun. I got to go to cheer camp for that, which was humorous. Me trying to keep up with cheerleaders; they are freaking athletes.
I had a very spirited school. At football games, if there were guys that I thought were jerks or assholes to girls, I would emasculate them a little bit sometimes by cornering them in the mascot suit or sitting on them, which might be in a little bit inappropriate in this day and age. But they'd never fuck with the mascot. And so that was my way to kind of, liike, giving the little finger at the patriarchy.
PornCrush:Â What do you remember about your initial experience with OnlyFans and Chaturbate?
Millie:Â I was in Southern California and everything was kind of closed down because of the pandemic. Iâd been inside forever, and I was newly single. So that was a really tricky time to try to figure out how to gain some sort of connection or romantic and emotional fulfillment because everyone was distancing.
So I think it made a lot of sense that I would kind of start (branching) out because certainly, the guys that I was meeting on dating apps werenât (great).
I moved to Joshua Tree after I started webcamming and doing OnlyFans. Just because I thought it would be a fun adventure. Once I was working remotely and had quit the office job I was doing, I figured I could work anywhere. So why not go somewhere really cheap and a little offbeat?
And also I kind of liked the idea of just dropping off the grid, which was fun for a little bit. But I definitely am so grateful to have trash service now. I don't miss taking my trash to the dump. People in the desert are built differently. They are a tough breed of people. I have so much respect for them.