Former adult film star Mia Khalifa has begged women not to make porn for a quick cash fix, admitting that the films she made during her three-month stint in the industry still "haunt her" to this day.
Mia made just 11 adult movies during a three-month period in 2014, but despite this, she remains one of the industry's most-search stars.
The now 27-year-old has taken to TikTok to explain how working in the adult industry has had a detrimental effect on her mental health.
The Lebanese-American actress and sports pundit said: "That hourly dissociative attack from remembering hundreds of millions of people's only impression of you is solely based on the lowest, most toxic, most uncharacteristic three months of your life when you were 21."
The video can be seen below:The 27-year-old also took the opportunity to respond to a TikTok user who joked about making porn for easy money.
User totallynotkaya posted a video that was captioned caption: "When you realise Pornhub pays you 20k to be in a video without your face in it."
Mia replied saying: "Girl don't do it... iss not worth it [sic]."
Khalifa revealed in an interview with Meghan Abbott last year how much she made from working in the adult entertainment industry, saying: "I made a TOTAL of around $12,000 in the industry and never saw a penny again after that."
She added that finding a "normal job" after quitting the industry was also difficult and scary.
Instagram user poppymillsx posted about how the porn industry exploits women in relation to Mia's story and she responded.
Poppymillsx said: "Let's talk about porn. Specifically Mia Khalifa. Women from a young age are pressured into the porn industry.
"Once you've filmed one video it's out there, you're a porn actress. So it's very easy to film 100 more, your rep is already 'damaged', right?
"Producers and people high up use this to pressure girls into signing contracts which not only make it hard for them to leave but also gives them no ownership at all of their videos."
Poppymillsx continued: "Women like Mia Khalifa have videos out there from years ago that will never go away. Women are haunted by the decisions they made years ago.
"But they weren't their decisions. They were exploited. Please only support ethical porn (onlyfans or amateurs) so it's all on the creators' terms.
"Don't support another vulnerable woman getting exploited just because they need money for rent."
Mia replied saying: "Those 11 videos will haunt me until I die, and I don't want another girl to go through that - because no one should."
This comes after Mia took to Twitter to say that she'd been exploited by the porn industry and that she has spent years attempting to get the videos she made removed from tube sites.
She wrote: "I'm not sure who’s more naive: Me for signing my life away to exploiters, or you for thinking I own any of the rights to the content? I have zero control over it and have been fighting for years to figure out a way to get it taken down."
The 27-year-old wrote this in response to a critic who said she had no right to complain about her time in the industry because it made her money and wrongfully stated that she had control over her adult content and was still profiting from it.