She grew up and went to school in the very neighborhood where the game was playing. And is actually going to the University of Miami now. She is very pretty so it would only be natural for a cameraman to pick her out of a crowd.
And please, this isn’t meant to be slut shaming, but after all the girl worked the porn industry and the locals had to know it. Is it that far fetched that she was instantly recognized by many people she went to school with (both high school and college) during a game that everyone was watching? Is she ashamed, you bet she is. I’m sure here family was hoping that she had turned her life around and that the porn thing would become a past mistake, soon to be forgotten and then this happened.
She wasn’t just a porn actress, she is/was a porn star. A quick googling states she’s worth $8 million & states she has 2 mil IG followers which probably means she’s making moolah from her posts/being invited fun places because of that. I’ve been in VIP areas before, much nicer than where the unwashed masses are, & even better if it’s free making you money. Yes, there’s stigma associated with her chosen career path but she’s better off financially than most people.
Her shame is the same as Paris Hilton’s shame. Rich, but forever to be defined by here actions. So it’s hard for us to emphasize with her since she is quite rich. But she can feel shame none the less.
Myself, I don’t feel sorry for her so much as I don’t care if she was a porn star or not. Doesn’t affect my life. But many people like to point fingers, nothing can be done about that.
She apologized for being a distraction during the game, which really should be ESPN apologizing for making her a distraction. I’ve seen any number of games where they show celebrities in the stands. Yeah, &??? Their people & rich people at that, they can afford those seats to follow their team or be seen at the Big Event. I find all of those celebrity sitings a (minorly) annoying distraction.
I’d never heard of her - then again, I’m not a porn aficionado, and only know the names of actresses that get famous in “traditional” media for some reason. Which I guess includes her now after this story.
Looked her up on Wikipedia because I was curious. Apparently “Abella Danger” isn’t a stage name, it’s her real name, which is kind of impressive. I thought it was a pun name with some kind of inuendo I hadn’t figured out yet. The other is that she won the “best butt” award many times, or variations of it, in her career. So I guess she has that distinction?
I don’t think she did anything wrong here, and wish her luck in her legal career.
I too am not getting the automatic assumption of ashamedness here. Is a career in porn still seen as scandalous or embarrassing in much of society? Sure. Is a brief, law-abiding, lucrative temporary career where you make eight million dollars before you’re thirty, and (let’s face it) bring a lot of pleasure to a lot of people, really something to be ashamed of, in and of itself? I guess that has to be decided based on an individual’s personal standards of morality.
But I’m not seeing any clear indication that Ms. Danger is actually ashamed of her previous career. AFAICT she’s apologizing (whether sincerely or otherwise) for the disruption of the media and the internet making a big public fuss over her attendance when all she wanted to do was watch the game and root for her team.
[ETA: Another thing I don’t really get is the widespread assumption that any sexually explicit activities are an indelible stain on an individual’s reputation if documentation of them becomes public. I thought that convention was laid to rest back when the King of frikkin’ England (okay, at the time he was only the Prince of frikkin’ Wales) had recordings/transcripts of his (mild) phone-sex chat splashed all over the media. Sure, that wasn’t deliberate on his part, but of course it was personally embarrassing at the time. The current mainstream consensus, though, seems to be more along the lines of yeah, people do sex stuff, so what, it’s not something to hassle them about when they’re out and about behaving as a normal clothed member of the public. I think it’s high time that that MYOB attitude extended to the activities of porn stars and sex workers as well as elite public figures.]
As I first commented in post #7, it could be fake shame meant to draw attention. With 9.5M Instagram followers she could be wanting to push it up to 10M. There could be monetary rewards to her for that.
At the time of my first post I had no idea who she was. I have since found out more about her by reviewing her body of work (bravo), found that she has an award winning butt (agree) and that she is pursuing higher education (brains too!).
So I take back my shame speculation and find that she is in fact a shrewd internet influencer and I would not be surprised to find out she had the incident staged, including the apology IMHO.
It’s a stage name. A quick search shows her birth name is Amirah Day.
I’m not going to pretend that I never see porn. However the way things are on the free internet it’s pretty easy to not know the names of anyone involved. The only reason why her name is familiar to me is seeing clips of her on mainstream podcasts like on Barstool Sports. I think that started after she stopped filming porn but I’m not sure.
It happens she’s studying law, not business or marketing or physics. The Bar Association in most states is rather fussy about member morality and ethics. Or at least claims to be. If she actually wants to be a practicing lawyer, her past may be an obstacle whether she herself feels any shame. Which IMO I strongly doubt.
As such from a completely practical POV she’d probably rather avoid becoming infamous among the normies as a porn star. No matter how many people are like @Loach mentioned: Somebody who consumes her product in privacy and mostly wants society to calm the heck down about commercial sex in all its forms.
What she wants is to avoid becoming the object of a witch hunt.
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