'Euphoria' Actress Chloe Cherry Says Dad Being Alive Could Have Helped Her Avoid Porn

Actress Chloe Cherry recently opened up about her childhood, revealing that losing her father to his cancer battle when she was eight traumatized her and affected her life. Cheery spoke to Eileen Kelly on the "Going Mental" podcast and reflected on her childhood experiences.

Cherry grew up in Pennsylvania and revealed that she had a joyous childhood up until her father's death. The actress also stated that had her father still been alive, she would have made many different choices, like not doing porn.

Cherry was a former adult film actress and according to the DailyMail currently has over a hundred million views on her videos on Pornhub. However, she has since quit that career and recently made her acting debut as the character Faye in HBO's "Euphoria."

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Cherry recently spoke with Eileen Kelly on the "Going Mental" podcast, where she spoke about her career and childhood. She opened up about how her childhood trauma from losing her father to cancer deeply affected her and made her want to "escape her life."

Cherry, an actress and former adult film star, shared details from her childhood, saying she had a "beautiful upbringing." However, it was all disrupted when her father died. When she was seven years old, he was diagnosed with cancer and succumbed to it a year later.

She spoke about the experience of watching him battle cancer, saying it was very hard to watch at her young age. She said, "It was a just really weird thing to not only get used to the idea of somebody being sick, but that it can be your parent, and that they're going to not only not survive, but they were just gonna be gone."

Cherry explained that she always thought if her father were still alive, she would have just been a normal person. She said she would have "just gone to college like a normal f--king person and just done some random stupid job and just been some stupid normal person… I wouldn't be Chloe Cherry if my dad was still around."

Cherry shared some of her childhood experiences and revealed that her parents were artists who raised their kids to be interested in art and nature. They weren't religious people and never went to church, which became a problem for Cherry and her brother as they grew up.

She said, "Kids would freak out at you, like, 'Oh, God doesn't like this.' The weird sh-t that I experienced (with) other kids yelling at me about God and Jesus growing up was hell. It was so awful."

Cherry also revealed that after her father's death, her mom sent her and her brother to child therapists, but they were all "really bad" and extremely unhelpful. She said, "Luckily my mom had a lot of close friends that were very close to us. That's what helped me get through it, knowing that... we were going to have support."

Cherry also shared that her dad's death affected her concentration and school performance. She said, "My mom tells me it's because I have ADHD and they didn't diagnose it, but I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that my dad died, and I just couldn't focus anymore."

Cherry said her grades were so low that she almost didn't graduate from high school. She said those years still affect her so much that she sometimes still wonders if she's a "stupid person."

The "Euphoria" actress said, "Sometimes I'll try to be nice to myself, like, you know, "Your dad died. Some people, when their parent dies, they'll do so much worse than just doing badly in school."

Cherry also spoke about how she became an adult film star. She said, "Part of becoming Chloe Cherry and wanting to become this completely other thing was part of wanting to escape my life, I think, and things. But I guess feeling like I just wanted more from the world and feeling like, there's no time to waste because you never know what's gonna happen."

She explained that she doesn't know if she would want to be the version of her that would exist if her dad were alive, and she knows he would never have approved of her not going to college and becoming a porn actress.

Shortly after Cherry turned 18 years old in 2015, she moved to Miami and launched her career as a porn star. Although she has retired from porn, her films currently have over 120 million views on Pornhub.

Cherry launched her OnlyFans account in 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, and that account is still active. However, she recently made her debut as an actress, playing the role of Faye, a heroin-addicted prostitute, in season two of "Euphoria."