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AVNInsider Interview: Tabitha Stevens
If you ask Tabitha Stevens, "What's new?" pull up a chair and be ready for a long answer. The seven-year porn veteran is working in music, doing voice-overs for Japanese cartoons, getting Entertainment Tonight to chronicle (and pick up part of the tab for) $30,000 worth of plastic surgery ("I'm addicted," she says with a surgically-enhanced smile) and running her own video stores between performing in videos. In fact, when this interview was conducted in mid-June, Stevens hadn't been before the porn cameras since February.
What has she been doing?
"Let’s see, I’ve been on Howard Stern’s show, five or six times this year, and a movie with Rodney Dangerfield on HBO with Ron Jeremy, we were actually having simulated sex, so I kind of had sex in front of the camera. I did this video for Uncle Cracker, then I did the American Music Awards. I danced on stage with Kid Rock. My parents were so happy because I actually had clothes on, so they were excited and they actually taped it."
Like I said — a long answer.
Take the plastic surgery. She has a history of plastic surgery, including a cheek implant that went awry: "I had cheek implants put in. One of them he put in crooked. He put them in the wrong way; he put them in through my eye, they were supposed to go in through my mouth. Well, one of them shifted into my eye. It was coming out of my eye. He had fixed it, but he didn’t fix it fully, it was shifting again, into the orbit of my eye, and it was very uncomfortable. So I went back to him so he could fix it again. And I figured he wasn’t going to charge me. And he wanted to charge me to do it. And I said, 'You can kiss my ass.'"
Enter ET, on a white horse. "Entertainment Tonight wanted to do a story on plastic surgery and I said 'You know what? Why don’t we work out a deal where you hook me up with a doctor and you can show it on TV?' So, I did that. I wanted to fix my nose, because the last doctor caused me a deviated septum, he broke my nose and I didn’t have a right nostril, like up inside, I couldn’t breathe. I needed a hole. Which is good in our business... So, he went in and fixed my nostril, got rid of my gummy smile, There’s an implant underneath my nose, almost like a little mustache, and it pushes down, so when I smile, the lip doesn’t go up. Then to balance my face out he put a chin implant in on the bottom. Because he lifted fat also, he took it from the side of my leg and put it inside my cheeks so I don’t have that gaunt look. They taped the whole thing and they interviewed me right after surgery. I looked like Mike Tyson after his last fight."
She's taking that new face to her video store, Jolly's, in Orange County's Lake Forest. "I go down there three times a week, just to check everything out. I'll be checking in inventory, and cleaning shelves, and people don't believe it's me."
She's a hands-on owner. Employees are trained in how to use and test toys, and "it's about equal, men and women, who come in." She also fired an area manager recently. "He wasn't doing his job. He was on salary, and was coming in maybe two hours a day. And when he comes in he's in the office. That's taking advantage. And he was stealing from me. Time to move on."
She's also adding her voice to Japanese animations for NuTech. "It’s strange because you watch it on TV. Usually what they do in animation is, they’ll have the actor come in and do his lines, and later on they fill in the cartoons with the voice. We have to actually match the voice with the cartoons. It’s really tough. You’ll have a line in Japanese that instead of saying 'Hi, how are you?' you have to add like five more lines to it because it’s so long so your sitting there and you have to wait, so it's a big process. When you watch it afterwards you kind of laugh at it, wow, then you can really tell who can act and who can’t just by their voices."
And that February shoot was Dripping Wet Sex for Simon Wolf, which has been set for a late June release. "It took a while to release that. It's awesome. But now I don't like to work for other people. I prefer to work for myself."
Where next? Mainstream or more adult? "I don't count on anything. If it happens, it happens. I'll give it all I can, but I'm not going to sit there and wait for it. I'm known in this industry. In mainstream, I'm the little fish in a big pond. I have a name, but that porn stigma.... I'm not a bad person because I do what I do."
And another boob job. "I've had five boob jobs, but I want to get another to reshape them. Maybe lipo on my pinky toe, because it's a little bit fatter than the other ones. I want to do that just to say that I did it. And then I want to save the fat from my toe — and sell it on the Internet! No, I'm joking."
That offbeat sense of humor and lack of pretense makes it fun to talk with — or interview — Stevens. Like that line up there about "I didn’t have a right nostril, like up inside, I couldn’t breathe. I needed a hole. Which is good in our business...." Or when she shows you her jeweled watch, and off-handedly says "I sucked a lot of cock to get this Rolex."
Other examples:
"I wish I were musically inclined — but I can only play with myself."
"I can't use the cash register [at Jolly's] because I suck — and I do, that's why I'm the owner."
"We were shooting in Hawaii, and I had a hemorrhoid — I don't lie about this stuff — I guess from nerves. I hadn't done a boy/girl anal scene in two years. I wanted to do it, but I couldn't. So the joke the whole trip was about this hemorrhoid I had. I put my finger up my butt to cover it up: I didn't want anybody to see it. You look at any of those movies we shot, my finger is up my butt trying to poke it in. Please don't come out. Please don't come out. Behind the scenes, I was joking about it. I don't care. There were these pods sitting on the beach, and I'm sitting down, just playing with this pod, and [a guy] comes over and says 'Hey Tabitha, what are you doing?' And I made this noise, grunting, and I take the pod and drop it from my butt and I say 'That was my hemorrhoid. It just fell out of my ass.' And he's like, ohmygawd, and then I picked it up and I bit it. And he is like, 'That is the grossest thing,' and everybody around said, 'What are you doing?' That's just me. There was this one part where I'm in the water, trying to be sexy, the water's coming in on me, washing up on the shore, and I'm being sexy and all of a sudden this big wave comes in and knocks me over. I'm spitting out salt water, boogers hanging out of my nose, wiping off the snot, Aren't I sexy? I don't care. What are you gonna do? On a set, everything's fun for me."
"I wanted Ron Jeremy in a movie. A lot of people don't want Ron in a movie. I love Ron. I'll work with him any day. They wanted us to do a blowjob scene. Evan Stone was the pizza guy, and then Ron Jeremy comes walking in and says 'I will take the pizza.' So I'm eating the pizza and I had crust in my mouth and it got caught on his penis. It looked like a herpe. I ate it. It was the funniest thing. So gross."
"Two of the three times I took a pop shot in the eye — Ron Jeremy. You would think Ron would know not to do that. The first time, I was doing a blowjob, and I told him that I heard he had big loads, and I was scared to get it in my eye. He said, 'When I'm about to pop, you'll grab it, and you can take over and you can put it where you want it.' Okay. So what do I do? I look right at it. And it just spit at me. Right in the eye. Like a snake. Six hours, I couldn't open my eye. I looked like I got punched in the face. Closed shut, red, it was disgusting. So I made this face, and Ron does it to me at parties. 'Hey Tabitha!' — he'll make the jerking motion — 'Make the face!' People go, what is this girl doing? It's the weirdest looking face ever. One eye's shut, I'm like 'Euuugh! I don't know what to do! This goo is dripping from my face.'"
Makes for an interesting interview. If you can stop laughing long enough to take notes.
— Tod Hunter
Tabitha Stevens has a site where people can get a free animated DVD ("I even autograph it.") after paying postage and handling.
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