I think it's about time I put up the entire Christy Canyon interview. This is all 103 minutes of the interview. I think it's over 10,000 words so have fun. I also have it on a CD and if I can locate that I will sell it to you. Just ask. I tried to make this readable. I just went over it and made sure it made sense and had punctuation. It's really just two girls talking about their lives and occasionally a guy puts his two cents in. I'm so proud of this interview and I hope you enjoy it.
Christy Canyon Interview October 27, 2006
C: My producer Ferrell asked me on day, do you know this girl Alix from MrSkin? And I said yeah I’m meeting her in a few weeks. This was like a month ago or something and he said you know she has this blog called the Road to Christy Canyon and he said how could she not have found you before? You like stripped on the road da da da da da. So our first question is what took you so long to find me?A: Well I didn’t work for MrSkin until like 2 years ago. So I wasn’t really into it. I always liked porn. But I had a thing for you b/c you were the first-every interview I’ve read the interviewer says that you’re (CC) my first crush -and the first porn I saw was with you in it, with Christy Canyon. Same thing with me and I explained it a little in my blog and I told you a little about it. I saw your video (Victim of Love2), and before that whenever I saw porn I thought it was bad and I felt bad and dirty watching it b/c everybody says it’s degrading to women and for some reason you didn’t come off that way. So I’ve been doing-I’m a designer and I never really got into writing-but when I met up with Mike Mcpadden who works for MrSkin, he really liked the way I talked. And he said you need to write some stuff. So I wrote some stuff for him and I’ve always been like I want to meet Christy Canyon. I want to do Christy Canyon.
CC: How funny ha ha..
A: So finally he just set it up. I knew you were on the road but I didn’t really know what you were doing. I knew you were done with movies. I didn’t know where you were. I’m always skeptical about approaching people in porn b/c you know the whole Traci Lords thing it’s kind of iffy with her, I mean I’d love to meet her but I don’t want to encroach on her privacy.
CC: I don’t even think she really talks about it anymore for the longest time she said she didn’t remember any thing until Harper Collins gave her an advance and suddenly it all came back
(Laughing)
A: So I saw your book on Mike’s shelf one day and I picked it up and I read it in like 2 days and then I read it again so that started everything out. And I just started the blog just to have fun.
CC: They are fun
A: And I did a lot of pictures of me and I got a lot of fans and lot of people were really interested about the interview and they were really excited about it
CC: Good I’m so glad that it all worked out it was perfect
A: Yes it was so when I found out I could come out here I was like yea!
CC: Well go ahead start with what ever you want to ask
A: What was the worse thing you hated about retail besides the money?
CC: God you know looking back on it, it was just so dead end to me I’m mean it wasn’t even…The retail that I did was at a little shop that closed down a couple of years later. It was just so working for the paycheck, which wasn’t even that great. There was no excitement in it I didn’t meet anyone interesting they were just all office ladies from Burbank, not that there’s anything wrong with office ladies but I was 18 and I felt just so stiff in there. There was just no future, no excitement. It wasn’t even like one day I could transfer to their other store and be boss or manager it was just so one dimensional
A: I know what you mean I did it for 10 years and I have no idea how I did it for 10 years. So Greg Rome is it?
CC: the guy that got me into the business
A: Right now he pulled up in his TransAm?
CC: yeah like the total Smokey and the Bandit, except it was white you know with a T-Top and in the 80’s that was the fuckin’ car to have. He was like the coolest and he was so cute and young and blond and tan, it was just so flashy.
A: and it took you what three weeks to call
CC: yeah right about there, cause when he said figure modeling I really was so truly so naive that I thought hands legs. Didn’t think of pussy and tits you know what I mean. And then he showed me a Hustler that he was in and I thought OMG really I couldn’t do that. But really it didn’t seem bad it was in the 80’s where like layouts were really cool and like now the new millennium era it’s so different you would never get away with doing a layout like the layouts we did in the 80’s where the guy was like really close and the tongue was out but there was no actual touching. And now if I was that age and somebody shows me a magazine like that I mean they’re like pissing on people and like fisting and stuff I’d be like OMG. But it as really so innocent (back in the 80’s) it was just such an innocence to me especially now that I look back on it.
A: How nervous were you that first shoot. I remember in the book you talk about how the makeup artist made you feel really comfortable what was the photographer’s name Ron?
CC: Ron, shooting photos was not nerve racking I was really comfortable with that but I was stiff just because I didn’t know what I was doing. I would give like the big ole cheesy smile and they were like no you don’t want to show that many teeth. Do like Ah, ee, oooh, like really do the vowels and it was just me and the photographer all day and the makeup artist. That part was really actually fun it was when I did my first film that I got totally freaked out just because it was like I’d only been with like 4 guys you know I hadn’t had that much sex when I was 18 and it was just really scary for me. You know and having sex in a bed with another couple was something I hadn’t done at 18 I had never seen anyone having sex right next to me. It wasn’t a great set. It was for Swedish Erotica and they were running behind and I remember the producers was fucking one of the girls in the bathroom. It was real porny.
A: yeah I would have freaked out and ran out of there immediately
CC: I know I really wanted to but I was really broke but I thought it’s no big deal it’s not like I haven’t had sex before and you know I could use the money and I don’t want to make the agent mad at me if I leave here because I thought what if he doesn’t want to hire me or send me out. It was like so many dynamics going on in my head at once just so much happening
A: you did that shoot and you talked to Jim and you said you don’t want to do this anymore but he told you there were 2 left and it was 1200 dollars a day
CC: And that was so much and even now that’s a lot. And it was straight sex, it was a boy girl scene, girl girl boy boy, I mean it wasn’t anal and now it’s like and I hate to keep referring to the times now but on our radio show here at Playboy we have a lot of the adult stars and a lot of the new ones and they come on and say yeah my first scene was a gang bang where I got choked and I’m thinking I must have missed that movie company and like even when they got there they were told that it was a masturbation it’s just so different now and I thank my lucky stars that I was in it when I was. It’s just such a different field now. But when I showed up for the second set like a day or two later. It was like a whole different vibe. It was Traci Lords, Ginger Lynn a catering service and Peter North like really young pretty handsome people. Sorry Ron Jeremy he was the first guy. I love Ron
A: Yeah I think he’s great but that would totally terrify me you know. You didn’t even know him
CC: I didn’t
A: and here he is eating donuts naked
CC: I know and I love him so much as a person. It was scary though. I think my second scene that I ever did on film was Ginger Lynn, Jamie Gillis. But Ginger was like oh my god you’re so cute! I mean you are so cute. And I’ve never had sex with a girl and I’ve always wanted to know what it was like and she was just so sweet and you know it was just such a different vibe it’s amazing how it just turned my whole look around from being on that second set.
A: Ok so then you went on and did more
CC: yeah more and more, I swear the first. I started in September of 84 and I quit in April of 85 and I think every month I was doing an average of 28 sex scenes. I mean I’d work like 28 days out of the month cause it was like the boom of porn. It was the beginning. Like going to the Pussy Cat theater to your home with these like $89 dollar tapes and there were like maybe like a dozen usable girls everyday. Amber Lynn, Ginger Lynn, Portia Lynn, Christy Canyon, Traci Lords. I mean there weren’t that many girls and every day we would just work.
A: And there were even less guys too
CC: Yeah there were like maybe six. Tom Byron, Peter North, Ron Jeremy, Marc Wallace. I mean there weren’t that many
A: I would assume it was a lot harder for men
CC: it was then but now with Viagra they cheat
A: That works I guess
CC: It does but then it backfires. I think it was around this time last year I directed a film a porn film and for 2 days and this guys took he had to have taken Viagra because he couldn’t come. I mean after the three positions and the head, 45 min later, I’m thinking dude. I took a break after 15 minutes and was like call us when you’re ready. It had to be something, it just wouldn’t go down.
A: You need the money shot
CC: Exactly and that poor girl, it was Sunny Lane, was trying to do everything to get this guy off and I would have been out of there like 5 minutes after he couldn’t pop his load. I would have been like I’ll be outside it’s not my part of my job.
A: So you quit in April
CC: April of 85
A: So here’s one of the questions my readers wanted me to ask and I actually really want to know this too. Orgasms, did you always have them?
ACC: Like 90 % of the time. There were sometimes when you were just in such a horrible position like I remember there was one sex scene and I don’t even remember what film it was in where the guy had me hoisted on a sink and he’s like fucking me but I could feel the nozzle of the sink like going right into my lower back and there were certain times that it just was not a comfortable position or a place to have sex. There was another film, Christy in the Wild where I was having sex with John Doe on a car. Oh John Doe god rest your soul. And I was sitting on top of him and it was like 100 degrees and he had a broken leg so I could only do cow girl and to me it just wasn’t comfortable after like 20 minutes I don’t have that good of thy muscles and with the hot sun it was just like oh. So there were times and there were probably 10 sex scenes that I can think of that I just didn’t like the position, the air conditioning was off, we were outside or on one or two cases where I just soooo wasn’t attracted to the guy that kind of thing.
A: So after you quit in April you went and worked with your dad and we don’t have to talk about that but you do in your book
CC: No it was fun for a while. And I was so burned out, like I said earlier, I did 28 days out of the month. And then I was like oh fuck what did I just do I mean get into. What did I just do with my life now I’m fucking on film, not that I ever regretted it but I just mentally needed a break and I was dating a guy in the business who owned the video company. I thought I was in love, I mean what do you fucking know at 18. He was older he was like 30. But I thought oh you know I’m going to marry him and I just really needed a change. I completely burned out. And have having sex on film for so many days I was really turned off by sex to a certain degree. You know I remember having sex for the first time after having it on film for 4 months and I had sex in my house once with the guy and it was kind of surreal and I had my leg high in the air and I had heels on. The guy was like what are you doing with heels on?
A: (Both Laughing) this is what I normally do
CC: With your leg like way out there. But like mentally I was thinking the camera’s got to get the right angle. So you know it really started messing with my personal life. That’s why when I came back in 89 it was so great to be under contract because I only did like one film ever 2 months
A: Yea. And you did a good job let me tell ya. When I read what your deal was whoa
CC: I just got lucky it was all about timing
A: Yes and everybody wanted you
CC: I just got lucky I feel very lucky in this business and all these later I’m still milkin’ the cow
A: You should I mean if I thought the way I think now back when I was 18 I would have done it. But when I was that age I thought I was going to be a designer
CC: See you had goals, I didn’t I was kicked out. I was like what the fuck am I going to do for money. I had two jobs. I’m not making it OMG. See I think everyone, and my co-host Ginger on Playboy radio disagrees, I think everyone that gets into adult at least from the people I know, they have some kind of chip on their shoulder. For some reason or another. Like they were abused in some way, I was never sexually abused but just a lot of marriages and everyone’s got a fucking story. I’m so not sob storying here but I was looking for approval. And I think if you have somewhat of a healthy background you don’t want to get naked in front of the camera, you know I really don’t. I mean mine was for approval and some of the girls I know had some rocky past. I don’t know anyone that said god I had the best upbringing. There’s always a glitch in there if you did deep enough. Which I think everyone has a certain amount that got into porn. So you had some goal.
A: yeah I did and of course it didn’t work I went to retail (laughing). Although I did go to Hong Kong and I studied with a designer out there and that would have been me moving to HK and there was just no way wanted to do that
CC: No I don’t blame you
A: So you’re working for your dad and everything’s cool. Did you date a lot of guys?
CC: No I didn’t you know up until the mid 90’s no the early 90’s. I dated a lot but nothing serious, nothing long term. I sounds so weird but I knew that I had to heal my own demons before I could get into something serious
A: That’s pretty smart. I’m like the opposite. (laughing)
CC: Everyone I guess acts different, but I knew that I had to be Ok with myself before I could be ok with somebody else in my life. But it was fun I dated and I had fun. But nothing major. No major commitments no major relationships
A: Yeah after the one he really hurt you. I mean it was pretty scary in the book
CC: And the funny thing now is that I see him at conventions and it’s like obviously I have no ill feelings towards him or anything b/c god who wants to carry around shit for all those years and it’s great to see him. And I look back on it too and I think part of it was my fault like I needed to be more mature like you were so weak Christy to let someone walk all over you like that. Now if somebody tried that I’d be like get the fuck out, don’t let the door hit you. But I was like so weak and so searching for acceptance that I put up with it. But really when it boils down to it, it was my fault. I mean I take full responsibility for it
A: That’s what therapy teaches you it teaches you to take responsibility
CC: 12 years
A: I teaches you to take responsibility so then you won’t have that issue with that other person and then you’ll be able to get over it
CC: Yeah and I can’t stand it when people carry these victimizing you know grudges for years. Like we were talking about Traci earlier and every interview I read she was so negative about the business and it is what it is. You know you did it and your still using that name even thought it’s not your god given name
A: Well I think that everything that she has now is because of what she did before
CC: Of course
A: The scandal was the best PR anybody could have asked for
CC: She was just another pretty face. And she’s not that good of an actress. She’s was a total one trick pony. I’m mean she’s cute and she’s beautiful but she’s no Shakespearian actress.
I just think it’s so important to take responsibility for your own actions
A: Yeah, and I don’t think she did that in her book at all. I mean I don’t think she panned the porn industry
CC: All 20 pages about the porn industry? I could care less about that TV pilot she did from the 80’s
A: Yeah she did pan it. Then she talks about how boring she is and she doesn’t talk a lot about the drugs she did. You were very honest about the drugs I thought that was great. Like I’ve had issues with cocaine so reading your story was cool
CC: And it was fun I’m so glad I had a little run when I was younger. And yet like now I couldn’t imagine ever doing it but I even look back at that and think wow I was so young and it was kind of fun
A: When you’re 18, I mean if I had done cocaine when I was 18 I probably would have had fun too but I did it a little bit later and I was like whoa this is crazy I gotta stop this.
So was that true that was the last time you took it
CC: Yes, I think I was like 20 maybe 21. I don’t even drink anymore. I mean I have habits like I love coffee and smoke cigarettes but I’m so in fear of losing control. I think I went the opposite was and now that I have a daughter I so don’t want to drink because like
A: You have to wake up in the morning and you have to be like energetic
CC: And yeah I don’t want her to be like why is my mommy like this. And wonder why is mommy kissing that strange man. I was a real loosey goosy drunk too. So I just don’t really do anything. I’m just very boring that way. I just don’t anymore
A: You know what it’s not boring though. I used to drink all the time and I’d do it every night it was crazy and I dried out for a year. And now I sit in front of my TV and watch Project Runway and sew.
CC: (Laughing) yeah and do a damn good job of sewing if I may add
A: Yeah that’s my fun. Like I come out here to Vegas and I have one drink and I’m wasted
CC: I get it though
A: Yeah it’s just hard losing control you’re right. There’s no way back
CC: An yet when I was in my 20’s it was great to lose control at a club I’d have 3 long island ice teas and throw up on some guy. He’d ask me out still
A: So when did you start going to school was it after you went back to porn
CC: Yes I enrolled in the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Downtown LA in 89. Yeah I graduated in 91. And it was great I started off in fashion design and I realized that I can’t cut straight I can’t sew the bodice was a little off and the apex. I just couldn’t sew to save my life but I was really good at the business end of it and one of my teachers said you know Christy I think you might want to get into the marketing end of it. The design part isn’t working for you.
A: Design is hard
CC: Yeah I wasn’t good at the design or the sewing I mean I can sew a button on but I don’t have a visual for art. Like I’m not good. My house I had a decorator do it. I’m so bad. If I buy a pair of pants I have to buy the shirt the mannequin is wearing. I’m just no good at putting things together
A: Get a personal shopper that’s what they’re there for
CC: I like shopping on my own, I do. I’ve never had one of those personal shoppers
A: I used one once, I was going to a wedding and I couldn’t find anything that fit and I was in tears. So I asked the lady to bring me everything in white and black while I sat crying in the dressing room. And it worked out
CC: See that’s smart I should do that
A: If you’re in a bind, then do it. But if you like to shop then don’t
CC: I know I never thought of that. Also I have such an Armenian Italian body that total hourglass. The little waist the big hips and the big boobs the little back. It always seems like they bring me stuff and say of try this on and it’s like a strapless and I say oh I can’t wear that I need to wear a bra. And they would say oh you can wear a strapless bra. No I’m like look I’m a 36DD my boobs will flop right out of that strapless. So usually people don’t know my body. It’s easier to just do it on my own sometimes. And yes the funny thing is I was doing some work for Playboy TV last year and the wardrobe girl knew my body. She was so good. Everything she got me was perfect. So a good one yes gets it. I ended up buying a bunch of clothes that she bought and I thought Oh my god I never would have picked this skirt out or this blouse. So you’re right a good personal shopper that understands my body is a good thing
A: When I was in design my biggest problem was that I couldn’t do me. Because I have the same body you do, big, small, big. And I do have a small back. I have no idea what my bra size is. I know I’m a double d but I can go anywhere from a 34 to a 38
CC: Wow, see I’m pretty true 36 double D
A: Well I go to target to buy my bras. I don’t go to Victoria Secret
CC: They don’t have good bras though (Victoria’s Secret)
A: Yeah?
CC: I go there, this sounds so cheesy but, my fans will send me Victoria Secret Gift cards for my birthday or Christmas. So I always go there and use them but the bra’s don’t last long. They do for like 60 days and then they’re like just thrashed.
A: Big boobs are hard
CC: Sometimes I just go to Macy’s and get some good expensive ones
A: Wacol is always good
CC: Yeah exactly or Josie I think has good ones. But Bra shopping for me is no fun. Cause you see the really cute ones in like 36 C and you can’t get them because they don’t make them bigger and thy aren’t that big so they should make them
A: I know I have like cute bra’s but I plop right out of them so I wear them for pretty party night you know where they won’t be on for very long. Like when I’m going to take my clothes off in like 5 minutes
CC: Exactly
A: So you went into merchandising then. Did you do anything with that?
CC: Not exactly. I was stripping at the time and working for Vivid. So I’d go to school Monday Tuesday and then I’d take a red eye out Tuesday night. Strip Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday come back on Sunday and be back in school on Monday it was a great dual life and at the end of out two years they had people come from Nordstrom’s and Macys and they said ok we start our assistant managers out at 20K a year and I’m thinking that’s about a week on the road
A: When was that? What year was that?
CC: 91. And I thought, I didn’t go to school to get a job at Macy’s or I Magnin. I went because I loved the normalcy of it. It was so normal and there were normal people in school
A: You had that great party where you invited your school friends over and had facials and did your nails, like you said in your book.
CC: Right. And I had these girl friends that knew nothing about my porn life. I was like 23 and they were like 18. They didn’t watch porn they didn’t know who I was. Like if you don’t watch porn you’re never going to know who a porn star is except for someone like Jenna Jameson who truly has crossed to the other side or Traci Lords for the notoriety. But they didn’t know who I was until the very end and then one of the guys, not that I have anything against men (in the fashion industry) but I thought they were all gay except one apparently wasn’t and saw me at a bachelor party and was like I go to college with that girl! And then it got around but no one cared b/c they all knew me at that point. It wasn’t like I walked in and the neon sign “porn star”. But I loved it b/c it was just such a different life for me you know. Saturday night I’d be stripping to like 400 people in a club and by Monday morning I’d have the glasses on and the little school clothing and turned in my book reports. It was great for that complete opposite life. It kept me really balanced it didn’t make me too porned out
A: Yeah that’s good really nice
CC: It really was it was really good expensive therapy (laughing). It was the best it was really, really fun but no I didn’t do anything with it except, this sounds so cheesy, when I would go on the road and I would sell 8x10’s I would use what I learned in marketing which was to use what the retailer wants the most in front. So I’d put the really explicit nude 8x10. After each show we’d sell pictures and t-shirts and movies so I’d put the total explicit spread eagle shots up front or like the really hardcore box covers up front (laughing). That’s about all I learned. Show the buyer what they want.
A: Well you know hey, it works and honestly in merchandising you don’t really learn much in school until you actually get into the real world. So if you had gotten a job as a buyer you know what to do. That’s the same way with design. Like I learned how to sew but I already had the art. I already had the colors and knew what I wanted to do. And I didn’t learn how to sew well until after school. Until I kept doing it an doing it
C: That’s life. When I got my radio show here at playboy it was like you want me to be on the air (laughing)? I have no experience. And it took like a few months and once you get your stride. And the listeners luckily didn’t pick up on it. But I just, I loved school. I went on to another school after I graduated. American College I think it was called. I thought well I want to get my four year degree now but within the first week, there were all these nasty type of guys and they knew who I was from day one and they made it so uncomfortable. I’d be giving a book report standing up at the podium and they would go “Victim of Love Part One” and I just thought you know I don’t want to spend thousands every quarter not to feel comfortable. But I thought I have my two year degree and there isn’t really anything I want to do with my this degree it’s just to hang on my wall
A: But it’s good. Like you said it was good therapy
CC: It was it was really such a fun experience
A: Yeah and it probably kept you really grounded
So you go back in and you do a couple movies. How many movies did you do the second time?
CC: The second time was in 89 and I did 8 for Canyon Video which was Video Exclusives I left them a year later and went to Vivid and probably did about two dozen for Vivid. I went with Vivid in 1990 and I quit in I think in 93 for like six months. And then came back in 94 and quit for good in 97.
But it’s so funny people on Myspace or my email say “You know I’m a new porn star and I’m would love for you to be in my next film” and I’m thinking NOOO YA WOULD? Like of course you would so I just always email back and say thanks but no thanks. If I ever made another film it would obviously be for Vivid.
A: I friended you on there (myspace) and you haven’t responded
CC: I am so bad at that! I have over 400 emails
A: That’s Ok
CC: I accepted you I’m sure?
A: I don’t thinks so. The first time I did it was right after I talked to you and set this (the interview) up. Then I took it down cause I thought maybe that’s not her. A lot of those are not the real people.
CC: That one is me I’m just bad. I always answer my personal emails at Christycanyon11@aol.com. Myspace is bad because I had like 500 emails and I got it down to 400 and by the time I shut it down it was back up to like 450 and I thought OMG what do I do. That’s like something I do when I have an extra half hour to kill. Like if I just need to vegetate. Like after I put my daughter to be and I just totally want to zone then I’ll do that. But I so don’t ever hardly answer them.
A: All right what I’ll do is send you my link and you can go there and friend me and I’ll just accept you that way
CC: OK yeah send me your link
A: Yeah it would be fun. I use myspace basically to promote the blog to promote mrskin to promote anything I want to do on the side. So it would be good to have you on my front page b/c everybody knows about this interview
CC: The other day I had accepted like 500 friends. It was Wednesday when I had my face mask on for 8 hours and I didn’t go out except to pick my daughter up
A: Ok Maybe. I’ll check
CC: So like it’s crazy the MySpace
A: It’s the most popular site. If you go to Alexa which is the site ratings site where you can find out what sites are the hottest and myspace is on top.
CC: And I like having something on there but if I didn’t start my own somebody else would have done a bogus CC so I got it but it’s just so the last thing I have time to do
A: I don’t spend as much time on there as I used to. I get a lot of perverted emails and I’d say I get like 20 a day. Nothing like 500. But I do get a lot of like crazy ones
CC: Yeah like “Hit me up Baby”
A: Totally and I think they blanket email them and I can’t figure out how they do it
CC: Yes that’s the other thing, they just mass mail
A: Yeah and I don’t know how that happens b/c I haven’t been able to mass mail unless you go in and click every single person
CC: There is a way to do it. A friend of mine was helping with that and when I had an appearance somewhere he knew how to send a mass email
A: Well that’s a bulletin, which is a mass email that goes to all of your friends
CC: Maybe that was it
A: But if you have that many friends, like I have 800 friends and when someone puts a bulletin up it’s like gone in 8 seconds
CC: Right
A: Plus, I’m afraid to look at bulletin b/c they are like those stupid emails that say if you don’t send this to ten people
CC: Like a chain letter
A: Yeah and I fall for that stuff so I only click on people I know to see what they are doing
CC: It’s (myspace) fun sometimes. Like if I get here (Playboy studios) early, I’ll go in the kitchen cafeteria and log on real quick and answer 20 or something.
A: I don’t even answer I just blog answer a thanks for writing I can’t answer all of you
CC: That’s smart but they always have questions like what was the last movie you did? Or how’d you get into the business? That kind of thing
A: What was the last movie you did?
CC: The last movie I did was, the boy girl one I did was Domination Nation part 1 and 2. And then I did one more after that Where The Boys Aren’t Number 9. Which were always fun, OMG I love the where the boy’s aren’t series
Tim: yeah! (Tim is my friend from Vegas who was lucky enough to be invited to go with me)
CC you have it?
Tim: I have that one I can’t remember if it was 7 or nine
CC: I was in 5 6 7 and 9
Tim: SO I have it either way
CC: Well don’t lose them because they’re discontinued
Tim: Really?
A: Well they (Tim and friends) would have this thing where they would trade off their porn and he had a Ginger Lynn one Suzy Super Slut and I loved it
CC: (laughing) is she Suzy?
A: yeah she’s Suzy and I thought it was excellent. He would have all these porn tapes and this was before we were dating and I would just go in his room during the day and be like oooh lets play with this one. But he got rid of that one (Suzy) and I was pretty pissed
Tim: yeah we rotated quite a bit
CC: isn’t it funny just to say tapes? They are so outdated now.
Tim: I literally have like 6 milk crates of tapes in my storage
CC: transfer them all to DVD. If you really like them
Tim: Oh it’s going to cost me thousands
A: no you can do that
A: so let me ask you a little bit about Video Exclusives. Do you ever talk to Tina anymore?
CC: You know we actually got in touch maybe three years ago. A friend of a friend had her number and I said well have her email me cause like again I’m going back to so much time had past. She was a horrible friend and yet she got into drugs and she just changed. And the end result by getting to Vivid was so fucking awesome that you look at it and you go you know what it was a blessing in disguise. Yes I got ripped from all my royalties down the road from them but you know what sometimes money is so not everything. So then we actually Tina and I talked about three years ago and in her email she was like oh you know I’m clean and sober now. She was living in a different state which I wont say on air for her protection. And I was talking to her one night and she’s like yeah I just took a sleeping pill so if I get a little like groggy. And I’m thinking you’re not clean you’re not sober. And then she sent an email and it said you know Marc, her ex husband, he’s been so good to me. And I was like he wasn’t good to you he wasn’t good to me. And I just thought you know I’m done with her. I’m not going there again. I’m totally over that phase of my life and I said you know this isn’t going to work as a friendship. There is too much water under that bridge so. She just hadn’t matured like she hadn’t grown in that time she was still living off her, like she had gotten millions in her alimony settlement and blew through it. I just can’t, you know when life’s too good and you don’t want to go back to certain places. And yes if I saw her we’d hug and this and that but it’s so weird with me. Ones I’m done with a friendship I’m just like done with it. Sometimes they just play their course in your life.
A: For a while when I was younger I was kinda back and forth but now I’m the same way. When I’m done I’m done.
Tim: you always try to save it likes there’s high stakes in keeping a good friendship. But once you don’t care if it’s saved or not it’s pretty much run it’s course
CC: Right. And for a certain time in my life she was awesome. Like I remember when I quit the business in 85 and I worked for my dad I still stayed in touch with Tina. And When I was going through a bunch of stuff with Michael the producer guy in the porn business, she would like…I remember once we (Michael and CC) were fighting really badly she sent me a ticket to go visit her in Indiana and like she was so there
A; That’s when you decided to go back. Or I think you were thinking about it
CC: No cause that was right after I quit but it was like we had such a good friendship for so long and then it just kind of dissolved and we both went in different directions. And like there’s no ill feelings but like certain people you just don’t have time for. Where like their life hasn’t really changed and yours has and you just don’t have anything in common anymore and that’s how it was with her
A: Speaking of friends, how did you meet up with Victoria?
CC: Through a website company, we did like a layout once together with Nina Hartley and that was in 89 or 90 and I met her on the set and I thought she was really nice
A: I remember you did talk about it in your book about how one of the guys wanted to date her or something, one of the guys that you dated said she was a bitch or something (LAUGHING) AND
CC: Someone I dated…Oh God I forgot the fake name I gave him
A: Yeah with the weirdo guy with the weird pants
CC: Yes OMG what did I call him in the book? He was a set director. OMG he was a wacko though. But she’s great. Like in 95 we got together as friends b/c we were going to do this website thing. Websites were the thing, “we could all make millions”. So we did the website and millions turned into about $200 dollars (laughing). And after like 3 months I pulled out the deal b/c I wasn’t making anything, and yet I knew that they were which was frustrating. People sometimes are like are so shortsighted b/c you could rip me off and I still won’t know. It’s anarchy on the web you don’t know anything. But to get a check for like two three hundred it’s like don’t insult me. But then she pulled out eventually and it’s like you don’t have regrets b/c you always get the silver lining, we became best friends from this shit deal that we were in together.
A: And you danced together
CC: We did toward the end of both our dancing careers like the last year we would only go out on the road together
A: And it looks like fun, I saw the pictures
CC: Oh it was so much fun. Oh on the web site that’s right! How’d you like the website Christycanyon.com. Now Vivid runs it and I totally trust them
A: The pictures from the show are fantastic, I totally want to come on your show and like play with you guys
CC: This show, OMG any time you want to come on
A: Really
CC: I swear to god and I wont have my peely face (Christy’s face was peeling from a chemical peel she had done a few days before)
A: Good cause I saw you guys like pouring food on yourselves and I was like I want to do that
CC: OMG every Friday on Playboy radio we have sploshing. And it started out where this caller called in our first week and he said I had my wife sit on a jelly donut and it was like so erotic. And Ginger’s like, I don’t get it. So she brought in a dozen jelly donuts the next day and sat on one. And you know what it is erotic. She sat on one and the jelly just oozed out and I like licked it from in between her legs and it was yummy and our fingers were all in it. And so we decided that every Friday we were going to sit in something different starting from the beginning of the alphabet. The first week I think I sat in Angel Hair pasta and that was up there. So we do something different every week now
A: That sounds like so much fun
CC: Yeah. This whole corner (she motions to corner or studio with tons of props) is all of our paraphernalia, you know like dildos and lubes and massage oils
A: Do you do that on the air do you stick…
CC: We are not allowed to do insertion. Yeah it’s the only thing that we can’t do
A: Well yeah that’s great, I will come on your show that would be wonderful.
So now girly questions
CC: Do you get chemical peels? Yes! (Laughing)
A: So you like to shop, clothing shopping or every shopping? Grocery shopping? Like you don’t cook do you
CC: NOOOOO! I don’t cook at all now, pasta for my daughter now cause I have to. Like today for lunch, I feel so bad, she got like frozen pizza. But it’s better than what the orphanage was giving her. But I get good to go food. Like to date she has never had any fast food at all.
A: Good for you
CC: Well like pizza from like the local pizzeria but she’s never been to MacDonald’s or Jack in the Crap or anything like that
A: That’s very good. I quit fast food after I left Detroit, which was like 4 years ago. They had tons of fast food places like white castle on every corner and taco bell. I would go to pizza hut just to have a good pizza. That’s horrible. I’m from Chicago and I’m used to really good pizza and I’m eating pizza hut and going this is all I can do. So after I got back I said I’m never going to a fast food place again. Although I did one night go to White Castle
A: Oh they are so good. Especially when you’re drunk
CC: Yeah I was drunk
A: Oh my god I remember a few years ago I was really drunk and I went to like Jack in the box, five years ago and just had four or five things and it just tasted so good
Tim: and the next day you feel it
CC: I know but at least I didn’t have a bad hangover, I mean all that grease just soaked it right up
I actually like to grocery shop, I think it’s fun
A: Well I’m a cook I love to cook and I love grocery shopping
CC: That is just the one thing I never mastered. I lived alone for so long that I though why cook for myself when I could go tot the to go counter at the local market and get this awesome salmon that’s already made with sauce and everything. And then my first marriage was only 5 weeks. But then the second one he cooked and the third one he cooked and so I never had to. When I was single I dated a lot so I’d go out to eat and if I didn’t like the guy or care what he thought I would just get the food to go. I’d be like “ Can I get a to go bag for the rest of it”?
(all laughing)
A: You’re married now right?
CC: Yes
A: Ok Good. To Grant right?
He’s adorable
CC: He is
A: You don’t talk about him in your first book
CC: You know why cause my first book cuts off at that
A: So are you writing-did you write the second one?
CC: No (sighs)
A: Can you please? Everybody is so excited about it.
CC: I have no time. I got through half of it and then I adopted my daughter, got this job three hours a day and so I just don’t have time. I ‘m with my daughter until I drop her off at school at one then come home, get ready, get to work at 3:30, home at 7:15, stay with my daughter for a while. I just don’t have time. It’s the kind of thing that will be there forever if I want to do in five years from now. Book one was just like a fluke. I never thought of writing book until I started this writing class. And then all of our stories were about whatever we wanted to write about so every week I would come to class with this story and I was about the porn business or about my family. The teacher was like OMG Christy these stories are like so intricate. The other students in the class were like “what are you going to read today” they were fascinated. And he said you know if you just get a few extra stories and just start bridging the stories together you have a book.
A: And it was really good
CC: Oh Thank you
A: Well you could tell you wrote it
CC: I did and I shopped it around at the beginning through an agent and I just didn’t like any of the offers that were offered to me. There were like 3. And it was just like thank god I didn’t need $20,000. I did it because I loved doing this. And I thought if I get that 20 grand I’ll never see another dime and I’ll lose total control over this book. And now I still sell it three years later. It’s my baby. I’m in the third printing. I’m in the third run. Somebody emailed me the other day from some agency and said oh we’re interested in publishing your second book and it was legit but it was a little publishing house. I wrote back unless you’re offering 100 thousand I’m not interested
A: So you didn’t hear back from them
(all laughing)
CC: No, I just would never want to sell out. Like a few people that were interested in the book at a low price were like well we want to change this and I thought this is mine. I don’t want to change anything. I knew from my fan club alone I would make more than I was offered in the first week. And thank god with the era of technology with Amazon and ebay. Ebay pulled my book for like 4 months b/c they said it was pornographic. I emailed them and said I’m very insulted this is my life.
A: It’s not bad compared to some of the stuff out there
CC: Right if they could sell Lady Chatterley’s lover then they can sell my book. And eventually they took it back but they were pretty tough on me
A: How well do you do with your auction? You sell your underwear and stuff like that. How well do you do with that?
CC: Really well
A: Maybe I should sell my underwear I bet I could sell my underwear
CC: You can’t sell it on Ebay though. You can sell it on EStar bids. Ebay is pretty strict these days. I first started selling on Ebay when I quit dancing in 2000. I went to writing school and I though OK what am I going to do? Obviously I need to make something cause I can’t just sit around I’m too hyper in that way. And my brother-in-law said OMG Christy have you ever thought of selling your dance costumes, or movie memorabilia on Ebay? And Ebay was really easy going in the year 2000. They got strict like 2 or 3 years later. I used to sell nylons and I used to say I just got fucked all night in them. And now it’s just really strict
A: Well I remember you could buy one of the Olsen twins underwear. Somebody found underwear on the beach where one of the twins was laying out with her boyfriend
CC: How did they know it was theirs though?
A: He said that she and her boyfriend were on the beach and after they left he walked over and found this pair of underwear. So he sold it on EBay. I used to surf around on there and find all this funny stuff on there. Like there was this haunted toy that had the best story. It was just funny
CC: Ebay is funny
A: Now when you sell your underwear on Ebay do you wash them first?
CC: No I really don’t. When I sell them on ebay I legally have to write this item has been laundered. People email me and ask me if I can wear them for one more week and I write back by Ebays standard I have to say that these have been washed
A: Well that’s pretty hot. I’ve always wondered about that
CC: If you go to my site there is a link to Christy Canyon Auctions
A: I did click on one of them and it was just a list of stuff. I’ve been to your auction site and I have that linked to my site too
CC: Oh cool
A: I’ve got to get into the affiliate thing though I have to figure out how to do that.
CC: I’m not in the affiliate thing. I did it once and I didn’t like the result.
A: Well Vivid should have a site where you could get an affiliate link. You don’t have anything like that
CC: The way it was set up with me was it was through vivid and they had a company where they got like $30 for every member that they got for you. But that was even like the three day membership that only cost’s 9.95 and they still got their $30.
A: MrSkin has a good affiliate program and I’m not too schooled on it but I like to use it
CC: Vivid had a weird company they went through and it knocked me off 90%, someone was making a fortune off of me. And they were like well give it a few months and if they got you that member they get their $30 and you get the member forever. But I just wasn’t happy with this and I pulled out of it after a few months and I think Vivid eventually did too
A: Well MrSkin cash is his own and it’s pretty good
CC: Lets go back to girly stuff. What do you think your personal style is? What would you categorize it as?
A: I like the new trendy stuff for the most part. Like right now I’m really into True Religion jeans or Seven’s
A: I love Seven’s
CC: I do too, I think the pants that I’m wearing today before I put your skirt on are Sevens. I’m kind of like trendy I think
A: Yeah, your belt is pretty trendy.
CC: (Laughing)
A; I’m very conservative as far as dressing but I’m not conservative everywhere else
C;: ha ha ha! It’s those kinds of girls you have to watch out for.
(To Tim) you should get a few pictures of us talking. Just airbrush my face. I’m so bad you guys, I still have a film Camera you guys. How bad is that. You know lost of those photo’s on my site except for the ones taken here are all from my little cheap camera cause I love it and I know how to use it
A: Yeah, I know. This one (referring to my borrowed digital camera) I have no idea what’s going on. That’s McPadden’s, the editors camera. Mine is broken so I don’t know what to do.
So makeup! What brand of makeup do you use?
CC: Believe it or not I do wear makeup. Just a hodgepodge. Shesido foundation, Mac mascara, Mac lip liner, some Clinique eye shadows when I wear them. Just a variety.
A: So you do wear foundation
CC: Yes when I come to work I wear foundation especially when there is a guest.
A: I’ve been tanning and I find that I don’t need foundation as much
CC: You don’t. In fact I’m not supposed to need it after my wonderful mask. They said oh you will be so beautiful you won’t need anything so I’ll let you know. But it’s fun I love makeup.
A: I’m a Mac girl
CC: I love doing girl things, I love massages getting my nails done. I got them done today. I do them every three weeks.
A: That’s it?
CC: Yeah I get a fill. But I love doing anything new. Like botox. If it doesn’t include surgery I’m so there
A: I can’t wait until I can afford botox b/c I’m doing it
CC: (laughing) just charge it!
A: I have no problem with any kind of plastic surgery
CC: I don’t either I’ve never had but I don’t have a problem if someone else does it. But I just hate being on drugs. I got my eyes lazer radio karatonomity, where you scalpel it so I don’t need glasses. And I remember being on like Vicodin cause you’re in such pain when you wake up. But you can see! It was the best money I ever spent in 1996. I had a stigmatism and I was nearsighted I mean my eyes were just all fucked up and I remember like waking up and seeing the digital clock and being like oh. It was so liberating. I remember traveling on the road and being on the plane and I’d have to put my glasses in the little pocket in front of me and I remember throwing my glasses in my purse then getting to the hotel and putting them on and one of the lenses fell out and I couldn’t see the whole trip. So I thought I’m just getting the surgery. And it was the best. But back to surgery even though it wasn’t cosmetic or a face lift, I remember that horrible feeling of being out of it for a few days. And I’ve had surgery for female things like endometriosis and I remember thinking oh I hate surgery. So unless it’s necessary I don’t want to do surgery. Then again when I’m sixty I may change my mind but in the mean time I just try every new gizmo that’s out there
A: Well I used to weigh like 180 pounds I think about 5 years ago and I lost a ton of weight.
CC: How?
(Tim and Alix laugh)
CC: Drugs?
A: YES (laughing)
CC: Really, cause usually people gain it right back when they quit
A; Yeah I don’t know I just didn’t. I mean what happened was that when you do enough cocaine during the day your stomach shrinks and you can’t eat anything
CC: No but you talk up a storm and clean that mother fuckin house!
(all laugh)
A: I love that story (referring to Christy’s encounters with coke in her Book). I remember being so coked up that I was either going to sit in my bed and cry all day or clean the house
CC: Oh yeah there was no dirt in that grout (in the book she describes scrubbing the grout in between her bathroom tiles with a tooth brush for hours)
A: Ha that was so funny. No I was so depressed when I couldn’t do anymore coke and I don’t eat when I’m depressed
CC: I do
A: And when I quit drinking it was amazing. I had this face bloat that was so weird and when it went away I was happier.
CC: Wow that’s good. So you know what you got something good out of it
A: True from such an evil source. But you know I do have my fat and I wouldn’t mind having a little lypo but I don’t have the money for it
CC: Yeah I’d like to get rid of that thy fat right there. But you just get to a point where you don’t care anymore.
A: Plus I find that, I mean he thinks I’m fantastic looking naked (Tim)
CC: Damn Right
