AVN's Female Performer of the Year, Chloe, is also a licensed phlebotomist, for those of you who weren't aware. Actually, it was more fun to get Chloe to spell the word, "p-h-l-e-b-o-t-o-m-i-s-t," than talk about what she actually does. When she's not starring in XXX movies, Chloe works at AIM where she serves as Secretary ["I'm a check writer"] on the Board of Directors, besides drawing blood.
"And I'm pretty damn good at it, too," she adds, "what with my history of drug abuse." [She laughs.] Chloe's been phlebotomizing for about six months at AIM which put her through school to get her license. She also runs AIM's mobile unit and takes a kit to draw blood for those who live way out in the sticks. She was asked if her "mobile unit" resembles an ice cream truck.
"Yeah, the Cheech & Chong ice truck," she says. "It's got a big needle on the front." Asked if she's had any fists up her ass lately, Chloe replies, 'God, I'm never going to live that down. Everyone asks me how Alisha's [Alisha Klass, Chloe's partner in an infamous fisting scene] doing. I don't know. 'Aren't you guys like really good friends?' I never knew her before that scene, and I haven't talked to her since that scene. It's a good scene, but I don't think she needs to remind everybody 20 times about it. I had my parents there [at the AVN show] for cripes' sake. 'What's she talking about?' my mom asked me. I told her don't ask. But I haven't actually fisted anybody in the ass recently. I only do vaginal or vaginal double-fistings. I don't stick anything in my butt unless it's attached to somebody."
Tricia Devereaux graces the front cover of the April, 1999 issue of Poz - a magazine that addresses HIV issues. In the cover story, writer David Kirby tells how HIV "took a wrecking ball to the wall of denial erected around the men and women who populate and copulate in California's San Fernando Valley." The article goes on to describe Devereaux, a former college student from Ohio, as "the canary in the carnal coal mine."
Getting infected devastated her, Devereaux is quoted as saying. "I feel bitter and betrayed." Devereaux says she was routinely assured by those-in-the-know that ELISAs were effective protection for weeding out HIV positive actors. Devereaux says her agency [World Modeling] knew she had HIV before she did. According to the article, Devereaux keeps her HIV status secret where she now lives. "This small town would crucify her," Devereaux's mother says. Devereaux says she might either go to grad school or move back to L.A. to do extra work in mainstream movies.
Sharon Mitchell of AIM is quoted in the article as saying, "The attitude in this business toward HIV has always been ghastly. The denial is preposterous." Dr. Jeffrey Laurence, director of AIDS research at New York Hospital maintains that, despite the prevalence of PCR testing, the "only effective prevention [for HIV] is a condom." Mitchell calls the adult companies that have a no condom policy, "basement companies - the little guys who get girls right off the bus."
Russ Hampshire, speaking on behalf of VCA, a company that has strong condom policies, says his company's sales have not been affected by its latex policy. On the flip side, Jeff Steward of Legend says that "a movie that relies on sex will sink with a condom."
"When I see these companies bragging that they don't use condoms, it disgusts me," Devereaux says in the article.
Devereaux and John Stagliano are a romantic item. They met at Indiana's Nudes-A-Poppin' event which Stagliano lenses every year.
