She entered the porn industry using a fake birth certificate to conceal that she was two years under the legal age of When the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI acted on an anonymous tip that Lords was a minor during her time in the industry, and that pornographers were distributing and selling these illegal images and videotapes, the resulting fallout led to prosecution of those responsible for creating and distributing the tapes, [ 2 ] but the prosecutions fell through when it was revealed she was using a real federal passport as her proof of age along with a fake birth certificate and fake California driver's license which were used to obtain the passport.
In addition, all of her porn films except the last and the September edition of Penthouse were banned as child pornography. Her last porn movie was filmed two days after her 18th birthday, by her own company. After leaving the pornography industry two days after turning the legal age of eighteen, Lords enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute , where she studied method acting with the intention of becoming a mainstream actress. She made her mainstream screen debut at age nineteen in a leading role in the remake of the Roger Corman science fiction film Not of This Earth.
Lords pursued music in addition to her film career. After her song "Love Never Dies" was featured on the soundtrack to the film Pet Sematary Two , she was signed to Radioactive Records and subsequently released her debut studio album, Fires to generally positive reviews.
Despite the poor sales of the album, the lead single " Control " had moderate commercial success. Lords has one elder sister and two younger sisters. Her parents divorced when she was seven years old and Lords moved with her mother and three sisters to her great-grandmother's house.
Around that same time, her mother enrolled at Ohio University and became employed part-time. I never wanted to be like my mother. You know, kids at sixteen, a husband who drinks and beats you. When I hit L. I was hateful to my mother. If I came home from a date at and my mother questioned me, I'd say, 'I was out fucking somebody! I just wanted to piss my mother off.
