Chloe Cherry, star of Euphoria, has said that working in a restaurant was so ‘traumatising’ that it made her respect the restrictions in the porn industry.
The actress, 25, debuted as Faye, the girlfriend of Custer (Tyler Chase), a heroin supplier who works with Fez, in the second season of the Zendaya-led adolescent drama last year (Angus Cloud).
Prior to then, she was most known for her roles in over 200 adult films.
Chloe moved to Miami at the age of 18 to work in the industry, and she worked as a waitress for six years before that.
However, speaking to Emily Ratajkowski on her podcast High Low, Chloe shared that she had an experience that she labelled ‘f***ing traumatising’.
She spoke about working under a ‘creepy’ employer while opening up about sexual harassment she experienced while working in hospitality.

‘He was like an actual sexual predator. Like, nobody in porn is a registered sex offender,’ she said.
‘In porn, it was like, this is what we’re going to do today.
‘There wasn’t like, then this random guy comes up to you and tries to touch you.’
She added: ‘I felt so much more respected in porn than in a restaurant.’
Chloe went on to say that she was grateful for working in the porn industry, saying: ‘I’m so f***ing glad that I made tons of f***ing money at 18 instead of just scrapping my way as a s***ty waitress.
‘I was confident enough to do that instead of wasting my life being hit on by some creepy 40 year old [male boss].’
Despite her success in porn, Chloe has decided to refocus on her acting career following her Euphoria casting.
She also told Emily, 31, that she wasn’t ‘comfortable’ with being an actress that ‘everyone in the industry is going to treat differently’.
‘When I was just a normal person, I was on an even playing field, but now I’m not.’
Chloe also said that she had discovered acting to be significantly more lucrative than porn and that she could make what she earned in a year in porn in a single day of acting.
She has previously stated that she had to overcome certain sex-related beliefs that hampered her capacity to explore her own sexuality.
Taught that ‘abstinence is key and all this weird stuff’, she spoke about how she ‘had these weird ideas about sex’.
Euphoria is streaming on NOW.