Jessie Lee is featured in the July issue of AVN magazine. Click here to see the digital edition. Photo above by Ellen Stagg.
“I realized, I don’t want a fucking normal life. I’m porn, that’s who I am. I miss it.”
After roughly five years away from the triple-X limelight, Jessie Lee had the above epiphany, she says, when Joanna Angel—the woman who brought Lee into the industry way back in 2007—cast her in a small non-sex role in her AVN Award-nominated horror porn parody of last year, I Know Who You Fucked Last Halloween.
“I was like, ‘Yeah, I need to be back in porn,’” Lee recalls. And so she persuaded Angel to shoot her in a comeback sex scene (contained in the March BurningAngel Entertainment release Evil Oil), signed up with leading talent agency OC Modeling and charged full-steam back into the smutmaking life … only this time with a new look and a completely reframed perspective.
“I feel like I’m doing it right this time,” she explains. “I’m taking it more seriously, and I’m actually doing it right. I have a great fucking agency, I’m promoting myself really well, I’m working with people that I really want to work with. I think before I was really unsure about what I wanted to do, if I wanted to take my career seriously, but now it’s like I know exactly what I want, I know exactly the steps I want to take.
“I feel like my attitude and my total mannerisms have changed since dying my hair,” she adds. “Before I was like blonde and cutesy and stuff like that, and now I’m like, dark hair and very … I call myself a ‘gothic slut,’ and I’ve very devious. I’m more devious with darker hair.”
Jessie Lee photos above by Ellen Stagg
Speaking of hair, that was what occupied Lee’s time as a civilian following her last porn performance of her initial run in the BA movie Killer Kleavage From Outer Space. “I was like, ‘Oh, I want to do hair! Oh, I want to find a boyfriend!’” she recounts. “And then I realized that I don’t want a boyfriend and I’m miserable from just doing hair. I have to do porn to be happy.”
Not that she’s abandoned her second career completely: “I still do hair,” she qualifies. “But that’s not my first priority. Making porn is.”
One of the things Lee has jumped on earnestly since her return is the booming indie clip marketplace, piling a bevy of self-produced content onto her OnlyFans page (located at onlyfans.com/omgitsjessielee). “I tell Joanna about all the people I’ve been filming content with for my OnlyFans,” she says, “and she’s like, ‘Jessie, you’ve literally had sex with all of porn in three weeks.’ So yeah, it’s exciting. I never realized how much of a cum slut I was until I got back into porn.” (So much of one, as a matter of fact, that not long after this interview took place, she literally got the words “Cum Slut” tattooed across the back of her thighs.)
It would certainly seem that Lee has with this turn at bat found herself exactly where she wants to be. “I think throughout my 20s I was still trying to find myself,” she reflects.
Jessie Lee photo below by Wrex Oliver
