Stoya Breaks Silence on James Deen Rape Allegation

CHATSWORTH, Calif.—Stoya has broken her silence on her claim that ex-boyfriend and fellow porn superstar, James Deen, raped her, speaking for the first time since she made the allegations in an interview with The Guardian.  In the story by Melissa Gira Grant titled, "How Stoya took on James Deen and broke the porn industry's silence," Stoya said, "If I don’t say it now, then, when am I?" "Am I just going to carry it around for the rest of my life and keep it secret? Because secrets aren’t really a thing that I do.” She also told TheGuardian.com, “Nobody was saying anything. And I didn’t feel like I could say anything. But from what I hear—because I am not looking at my Twitter mentions—the way the public conversation is going is shockingly good in some ways. But also there is ‘Well, you know you can’t rape a sex worker,’ or ‘She still defends porn when she was raped by a pornographer’ —everybody has got their own fucking agenda, and that’s why I was scared to say something. I don’t know the reasons for other women, why they felt they had to keep quiet, but it just got to be too much.” Deen has denied Stoya's allegation. Since her revelation on Twitter Saturday night, eight other women have publicly claimed they were assaulted by Deen, who aside from denying any wrongdoing via his own Twitter and Instagram accounts, thus far has not responded to additional requests for comment.  For The Guardian's story, click here.