Investigations were launched, charges were levied, and her movies were yanked off store shelves, costing the industry millions.
A star was instantly born.
Lords herself then did the impossible — she got off drugs, took acting classes at the Lee Strasburg Institute and went legit.
Not of This Earth 1988.
Traci Lords is best known as the sex-kitten catalyst of one of the biggest scandals ever to rock American porn.
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