Lana Rhoades was voted the most popular adult star in the world two years after she quit. She’d been paid $1,200 a scene. Years later, on her own podcast, she tried to explain what they made her do and broke down before she could finish a sentence.
She entered the industry at 19 in 2016 and was out by the end of 2017, with about $100,000 to her name. Around the same time, she says, an influencer she knew got $155,000 for one Instagram post with a Jeep. After she quit, she says she grew her own Instagram past 10 million followers in a single year. Then she launched a podcast with two friends. It was filmed in a kitchen.
In the video below, she’s explaining what happened once she hit number one. “Everyone wanted to make money off me, so they pushed me.” Mid-sentence, she stops. Her friends tell her not to cry.
“I told myself no. Now I’m crying.”
She keeps going. She describes watching another girl sob on set while the cameras kept rolling, because her agent told her it was this or the highway. She talks about friends who were choked until they passed out mid-scene. In another interview she admitted that whenever the camera was behind her, she was crying too.
The videos are still online, still making money. “A lot of the videos I have no rights under,” she said, “otherwise I probably would have deleted them all by now.”
In April 2026, she became creative director of a new platform competing with OnlyFans.
So who should answer for those tears: the 19-year-old who signed, or the industry still selling her?
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