LOS ANGELES—Wicked Pictures has signed a new, exclusive seven-figure contract with AVN Hall of Famer and longtime Wicked Girl Stormy Daniels to return to the fold as a director and brand amabassador, the company announced Thursday.
“I am absolutely thrilled to welcome Stormy back home,” Wicked head of production Axel Braun said. "She is a huge part of the history of Wicked, she is smart, sexy, exceptionally talented and she truly cares about the brand. I’ve always loved, respected and appreciated her, and not having her here for the past four years just felt wrong. Wicked has always been her family and I’m happy I was able to get her back where she belongs.”
Dubbed "the most famous pornstar in the world" by GQ, Daniels wrote, directed and starred in some of the most popular releases during her original 16-year tenure with the company, including Operation Desert Stormy, Wanted, Pretty Dangerous and Unbridled, and collected countless industry accolades, including Best New Starlet (AVN), Mainstream Media Favorite (XRCO) and Best Actress (NightMoves). Aside from being both an AVN and XRCO Hall of Famer, she was crowned Penthouse Pet of the Century.
Daniels has been profiled in such prestigious publications as Time, Rolling Stone, US Weekly and FHM, earning unprecedented mainstream press exposure for an adult movie star. Her 60 Minutes appearance with Anderson Cooper was the most watched interview in a decade and the second one in the history of the program, topped only by Barack Obama’s first post-election interview in 2008. She's been memed and satirized in political cartoons, she wrote a New York Times Best Seller, and she's mentioned in tracks by Megan Thee Stallion and Kanye West. She was even a special guest on SNL, appearing as herself in a sketch along Ben Stiller and Alec Baldwin. And she was given the key to the city of West Hollywood, California, on Stormy Daniels Day, May 23, 2018.
"In 2002, I moved to Los Angeles and signed a contract with Wicked Pictures," recalled Daniels. "I had no family, no money, and no clue what I was doing. I just knew that I wanted to be there. That I had to be there. I quickly became more than just a performer for the company. It was at Wicked that I found my voice and discovered my love for writing and directing. For 16 years, Wicked was my home, and my film crew was my family. I lived and breathed making movies, directing was and always will be my passion. A few years ago, I was called away from the industry that I love, in order to handle some other much dirtier things, but those battles are now finally over. So when Axel approached me last month and asked me if I'd like to come home, there was absolutely no hesitation to my resounding ‘YES!’”
While serving in her new role, Daniels will continue to cultivate a wide range of mainstream projects. She recently joined the ranks of TV ghost hunters by producing 13 episodes of the TV series Spooky Babes. Each episode is filmed at reputed paranormal hotspots and follows a team of investigators dedicated to pursuing and documenting paranormal activity across the globe.
The project entered the national news cycle recently, when New York jurors heard the case against Daniels' former lawyer, the disgraced and now disbarred Michael Avenatti, accused of stealing nearly $300,000 from the publishing proceeds generated by her best-selling memoir, Full Disclosure. Avenatti, acting as his own attorney, sought to discredit his former client by questioning her lifelong interest in the paranormal when she took the witness stand. Just as she has always enjoyed shutting down trolls on social media, she sparred with Avenatti point-by-point, removing controversy from the issue by providing clarifications, context, and, in typical Stormy Daniels fashion, some hilarious comebacks.
"I am so excited to get back to being creative and making movie magic at the place I was always meant to be," Daniels concluded. "Now! Everyone, look busy! The bitch is back!"
For all of Stormy Daniels' Wicked movies, visit Wicked.com. Follow her on Twitter @stormydaniels and on Instagram @thestormydaniels.
