LOS ANGELES—In an interview with Rolling Stone and author CT Jones, adult-starlet-turned-Euporia-star Chloe Cherry talks about life before Hollywood success, being “boxed in” and having no regrets, as detailed in the star’s upcoming memoir, Somewhere Dark and Hot, scheduled to be published by Simon & Schuster in February 2027.
The memoir recalls Cherry’s origins as a Midwestern small town girl with big city ambitions who was an 18-year-old runaway when she arrived in Miami and started her adult career in 2015, represented by Hussie Models. The starlet soon relocated to Los Angeles, became a Spiegler Girl and clocked more than 200 scenes before the pandemic hit in 2020.
The book will cover “her time living in model homes, the porn sets where she worked, and her struggles with mental health, eating disorders and drug abuse,” author Jones relays.
In 2022, Cherry crossed over to mainstream entertainment with her debut in the second season of popular HBO teen drama Euphoria, in the role of Faye Valentine, girlfriend of drug dealer Custer. Considered a “breakout” performance, Faye became one of the show’s main characters by season three, catapulting Cherry to mainstream fame. The same year, she announced her retirement from adult.
The memoir, Cherry says, is an attempt to reveal a version of herself that isn’t based only on her persona as an adult performer. “I don’t understand why, whenever any character or real-life human is a sex worker that suddenly becomes just all they are to people,” she told Rolling Stone. “Nobody can see anything past that.”
The star has also appeared in several independent mainstream projects including www.RachelOrmont.com (2024), Blood Barn (2025) and Find Your Friends (2025), as well as the 2024 music video for Charli XCX's hit song "360." She named authors David Sedaris, Ottessa Moshfegh and Hunter S. Thompson as her literary inspirations.
Euphoria, which also served as a launching pad for acting A-listers Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney and Jacob Elordi, recently ended its run in May, at the end of season three, following a four-year break between seasons two and three (partially due to conflicting production schedules for the show’s stars). The full cast includes Cherry, Zendaya, Elordi, Sweeney, Hunter Schafer, Eric Dane, Alexa Demie, Maude Apatow, Martha Kelly, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Toby Wallace and Colman Domingo.
