Ex Child Prostitute interview-Tiffany

some glue some other hair in it to this it didn't work out so that's why it's all gluey like my son wanted me to do my hair like that like this he said mommy do it lola it's fun yeah i see my ski i see my kid all the time i talk to him all the time how many kids do you have four my oldest just turned 24 my birthday's up 31st i'll be 44. been out here for like almost 30 years on and off 30 years on skid row yeah so i started off macarthur park well hollywood air hollywood area i did escort service um so you're an escort from what was the escort from 13 yeah and the men knew that i was that age they would they would yeah there seems to be a market they would specifically specifically call for me which is kind of kind of sad i think about it now it's kind of sad but at the same time i was thinking well you know if they want to be with somebody young then at least they're with me and not with somebody you know younger or whatever but anyways yeah yeah so like i get i get paid between three and five hundred dollars a day sometimes i didn't even have to do anything it was just arm candy going to parties or whatever being like there going out to dinner were you saving money back then no because i had a pimp i had a pimp i had a pimp i honestly i it's a story i really you know haven't really thought about in a long time um so i had i i was i grew up in oxnard you know oxnard and navy base poor whitening me come from middle upper class family was very secluded very um closed our family was very close and closed-minded um if you're of another race my grandfather was really racist like i don't know if it was intentional or what but my grandfather's irish i'm a time my grandma's italian and my dad my dad dad i barely got to meet him in 2015. but he's indian so it's like imagine cherokee indian italian and irish three drinkers allbad.com like all bad i was severe alcoholic really bad and i got in the in in i want to be in the in crowd i was straight a student straight a had a scholarship with a philharmonic orchestra and i dropped out of school in ninth grade because i didn't want um i want to be popular you know and i never never dated like never had a boyfriend never went to prom never went to dances never did none of that because i wasn't allowed to do any of that so dropped out and i ran away right from home i ran away all the way here to to hollywood and then from on and off for about a year year and a half i was here and then i went i got away from him from the the pimp got away from him and went up to grand rapids michigan i don't know how the hell i got over there i know i got in i was in big rigs you know hitchhiking all the way up there then i got busted for um being um running a prostitution ring they tried to get me for running prostitution ring because they got me in an adult in a dope house and um i was the only one there i was running this house i was there madam or whatever you want to call it and i was there and then i they said they were giving me 10 to 15 years per person that was up in that house and i started crying i said i'm a minor i'm a minor please oh my god and i was sure enough they checked on us missing and exploited children and i was there on the internet my grandmother so how does a you're 13 when the pimp i was 13. how did the tim approach you well i he was my so-called boyfriend like i wanted to be in he had the coke i was doing a lot of coke then a lot a lot of crack a lot of coke like and when he got me where he wanted he had me chained to where i couldn't leave like literally on my foot in the hotel room this hollywood celebrity hotel in hollywood off of cherokee or something like that on highland like around that area um so i was there like he would have the people come there because i tried to get away once and i didn't make it but he um he would have the people come there and he would get paid good money you know how many guys a day would you entertain between three and five thirteen-year-old girl 13. and you did this until when like almost 15. and then i ran i got away because he sold me to somebody and they let me go yeah so he sold me to this guy i guess this guy he was um so somebody stepped in egyptian it was egyptian or something like that he was a date so he paid good money for me he paid like almost five five thousand to ten thousand dollars to get you away from the town to take me and as soon as he took me he drove me away and he let me out that's sweet and i should have went home i should have went back to my grandparents but i was too much of a drug addict then yeah i couldn't do it and i was just thinking where i was going to get my next high what i was going to do so i hitchhiked you know and a lot of the big rig drivers they do a lot of coke to stay awake they did a lot of cooks stay awake and i would go with them and you know i figured well you know if they're going to drive me here you know the ticket costs this much this is what i'm going to do for that you know at least i get to sleep they're going to feed me you know and so i thought it was a win-win you know on everything until um yeah until that happened and and then my i i got arrested and went to big jail my first time in big jail i was crying it was all bad and then my uncle my uncle's a sheriff for ventura county sheriff's department he flew from here there to grand rapids michigan to pick me up on the airplane and he's he's he's he's he's very bitter towards me now um i i haven't seen my family in a minute because i don't like to be put down i don't like them to see me different than what they knew me as before i don't want my cousins to see me different um i don't know i'm ashamed more than anything but i was doing really good until the last two years like two years ago i left my my my my son's dad my youngest dad because he cheated on me he said i wasn't good enough for him i was real fat i was like almost 300 pounds [Music] so i decided to start doing crystal meth and crack together i did it for three weeks i did not sleep 21 days i look like a serpent my eyes were yellow i i got cellulitis because i got poison from like all the drugs that i was doing i didn't know how to do it and it was really bad i had a fever of 106. and i almost died but you know that's when i quit crack but you lost the weight i lost 100 pounds in three weeks it's a hell of a hell of a diet drug i didn't eat i didn't eat i didn't drink i didn't nothing i could literally feel my skin eating itself like like like stuff crawling all in your skin all over everywhere it was it was really bad nobody taught me how to smoke crystal they never taught me how i just thought oh you just do the same like correct no you don't do you still have teeth huh i have social just a fat yeah but i had those before all this happened you know um i had a set of partials but they don't they don't these are your actual teeth you got my teeth these are your teeth so your teeth survived all the cracking well they're actually they hurt these i don't have all of them i just have my front ones but that's still better than a lot of other people yeah most people are looking at their teeth i could have them taken out i should really because they hurt you know a lot of my teeth hurt but so we know about your teen years what about your 20s and 30s how old are you i'm i'll be 44 on the 31st so 20s 30s and now you're 40. what what kind of stuff you've been doing well during those days okay when i was i got i had my i got married when i was 18 to a trip i got him his papers and i got off the street so i thought hey this is still but i was still dipping into crack i lived in lafayette park um lafayette in macarthur park area um so i lived over there with him and then i got pregnant and i had my daughter a week before i turned 21. and i never had a real job until i got with him so i had a job at universal studios and then i got pregnant i had to quit my job and i had her week before i turned 21 then when she was three i left him because he was abusive like he was very abusive to me um when she was three i left i went back i went to georgia my family's in georgia and i stayed there for about almost two a year and then the the federal agents the marshals came and got me for my job i was i was a waitress to cook at waffle house in buford georgia and so i was there and they came and they picked me up and they said you got fed you got you're one you're a wanted woman so they flew me back they extradited me from georgia to here for what extradited no what for for kidnapping oh my daughter likes i was married married to him and i didn't tell him where i was taking her so technically he needed to know where i was taking her and he didn't even want my daughter you know he just did it because you know that that's that's what hurt me the most is if that happened so he played the part of mr goody goody bringing the bible with him to court all the time i was like gosh dang i'm like god if these are your disciples you need to shoot him in the head you know like seriously seriously he's like like there with the bible and stuff and i was like if they only seen the house if they only see what he does behind closed doors you know he only sees how he really treats a woman like they who locked me in the house he had a padlock on the outside of my doors my windows everything in the house locks on the outside that he had locked well i couldn't get to so like when he would leave and he would unplug the phone all that like i didn't have a cell phone or nothing i didn't have no contact with nobody like during those three years three four five years that i was with him because i was from 18 to 21 18 19 20 20 3 years three years i was with him for three years and it's the worst three years of my life but i've seen a lot of stuff you know you know sabo salvadorian um so like i pretty much seen a lot of stuff and then when i left him went there i actually died back here did a year and a half in county jail that's when county jail was over here at twin towers in a year and a half i was a trustee i did that front area of the twin towers that has all the flowers and the cement and all that i i helped do that i was one of the trustees that did it my name's carved in there somewhere on that thing on the cement and so and then from then i was i was supposed to see my kid when i got i was supposed to see my kid but the the media the mediator was him so how am i gonna have a mediator that's the same person that you know that i'm my ex how are you gonna have a mediator that's him you need to have somebody else different but i think he paid him off you know anyway so i didn't see i see my daughter once when she was little and i barely really i barely barely got to see her when my son when i got pregnant with my son and my son's nine so like i've only known known her or her whereabouts for nine years because my son was like my son was under i was pregnant and then i went to see her and she didn't want to see me she blames me for everything bad that happened on that i wasn't there to help like the sexual abuse she was sexually abused my daughter she's 20 23 23 or 24 i'm not sure should we before i turn 21 yeah she's 23 um she's a nurse she she achieved what she needed to do she looks just like me but real skinnier like hella skinny and tall she's taller than me and straight light brown hair that's that's all i remember my kid and then i had another kid she's four seventeen how many kids though four two girls first her she's gonna she's 23 and then i have a 17 year old and a 13 year old that i have with one guy with my my my other baby dad so i have three baby dads and i have a nine year old that i was actually able to raise you know that's still in my life that loves the hell out of me that wants me to do good that blames his dad for everything that i'm doing because it is his fault he said if that if you didn't if you didn't go with that lady my mom would still be here he blames him for a lot of stuff my son's going through a lot of psychological stuff right now a lot of depression he sees a therapist um he's autistic he's on the autism spectrum he's on the spectrum but very very low with the asperger's um but he doesn't his dad doesn't his dad would always complain about the way that i was raising my kid and he does worse he yells at my kid my kid's nine years old like when i go there to visit he starts yelling at him if he doesn't wash his hands properly or puts touch something or puts oil on something it's like really he's a kid you know and then he [ __ ] at me he starts cussing at me and i'm like you know what i'm so glad and then this came along this hotel i've been there for about a month month and a half and it's like the first thing that has ever gone right since i've been out here like really correct the way that it's supposed to happen because they're gonna put me in a shelter like on 14th and paloma and i said no i don't want to be around i'm very very personal like i don't like people knowing my business i'm a little bit messy like not dirty messy but like unorganized messy clothes everywhere like all that kind of stuff makeup everywhere you know and i like to wash clothes by hand so like my room has all these clothes hanging up in my room because i wash my hand i like to do i like to wash by hand i don't know it's just oh i don't know why were you homeless before that yeah in a tent yeah i had i had a tent and then i built a house i built one by the free by the railroad tracks by the parole office i built one out of wood and then i got jealous people and then they tore my stuff down and ripped everything up and i was like whatever you guys can have the street you guys want that you can have it it's okay don't worry and right when i figured out you know what just let everything go because none of the stuff that i have i paid for nothing found in the trash it was given to me everything that i buy is bought with recycled money always it's never from my pocket it's in my pocket but it's never from my pocket it's from a can or whatever that i turn in for that money it's all recycled everything so anything and everything you will ever see me where i found most likely i found on the street like all this was thrown in the trash like all this the shorts shoes everything in the trash like people just don't like i have ever comedy and finch i have juicy couture perfume i have all that yeah i look good smell good all that and don't have to pay for nothing once i start buying stuff from the store then as [ __ ] starts going bad for me so i gotta i gotta rewind and take it back and then use it for something else like i've i had to learn the value of money this time that's what i know that i had to learn the value of money because i was spending money so badly when i was in this other relationship with my son's dad i was with him 12 years almost 12 years clean and sober i was a nurse i worked for kaiser i worked for ralph's in hollywood did in-home care hospice care and i lost it all because i started getting high and drinking because i was depressed because my ex is a liar that's all you know he's a liar the whole relationship was fake to him he felt sorry for me whatever you know you've had quite a lot did i discuss him you've had quite a life for a 44 year old whoo i've been killed twice i was dead literally what do you think is put you on this path i mean because your story involves prostitution and drug addiction and what homelessness what put me on this path abusive relationships and all this stuff what put me on this path is for me to be testimony i think for me to be testimony and proof that you know what as much curve balls as much [ __ ] strikes out that i got thrown i'm still here i'm still here i have my teeth i don't have scars on my face i don't have any fingers cut off so that means i'm not a thief you know i'm not a snitch you know i'm none of that i'm just me i just gotta be honest truthful tell the truth and whatever i say in behind a person's back i can stay in front of their face like if somebody asked me something okay yeah bring him here let me see come on bring him here now they're scared of me they don't take my stuff like my bike i had it locked up over here on the other street with a drinky dink lock they didn't take it cause they know i'll take all theirs or set all their stuff on fire do you have any regrets my my regret the regret that i do have in my life is no i don't i don't have any regrets the only regret is that i wasn't able to be there for my mom and my grandma when they passed that's the only thing really but everything else that's the way god wanted it to happen because otherwise it wouldn't have happened the way it happened i just have to learn how to be with sit i had to learn how to sit with myself i had to learn how to value money like i'm broke i'm total broke right now like total broke but i have everything i need they give you three meals at this hotel good food not no nasty food like jailhouse food it's good food they have actual cooks you know you get three meals what more can you ask for cable tv king-sized bed yeah there's a curfew oh wow there's a curfew but people work postmates they work door dash they work all that i'm in and out all night they don't care as long as you're it's all how you carry yourself like looking at me i clean up real good like right now i look like crap but like i can clean up real good you won't even be able to tell that i'm homeless or that i'm high as [ __ ] part of my language but you can't you you wouldn't be able to tell crystal math yeah but i haven't i haven't done any since like two days i'm i'm because i haven't had i haven't really have money you know i've had more prior other priorities um like like i went to the store i got well right now i just had a little i had like about fifteen dollars i bought an outfit does that mean that you could quit crystal meth if you wanted to oh i can i've i've quit for a whole week if you've gone two days now i've gone i've gone yet i mean i'm kind of craving it a little bit i'm tired i've been up my mind is i'm like adhd like big time my mind is total i'm thinking about what i'm going to gotta gotta do later what i gotta do tomorrow and when i when i go to sleep i really don't sleep because my mind is still working like i dream about my what i'm gonna do the next day like it's all in my head as my mind needs to like rewind and like relax all this out here believe it or not is very stressful oh yeah like for especially for a female by yourself like single i don't i don't want no boyfriend i don't need no guy why i need a guy i do a lot more by myself than they do in their whole life you know i do more in one day than they do in a whole week you know like and then you get the weirdos like weirdo weirdos that like weird that don't want to pay nothing you know that just want to sit and smoke your dope on your pipe and what you suck their dick i'm like what the hell you let me do that [ __ ] get that [ __ ] out of my face prostitution's still part of your life sometimes i have regulars that i've known for years you know if i see a regular or if i'm really really in need of money i will turn a date i'm not saying i don't i use rubbers all the time i have rubbers in my purse you know um you can't put nothing past you know i'm not ashamed of what i do but i'm not gonna front myself off and make myself look like that because people certain people see me a different way like like over by macarthur park they don't know that i do that when i go over that way i'm i carry myself different you know they don't know so i don't want them i'm ashamed of that that part of my life the prostitution i'm ashamed of that especially when i see see people that i've dated and then i see their families like oh [ __ ] they got their wife with them and their kids and then they're trying to hit on me while they're there i'm like what the hell that's not cool don't do that to her like that don't treat her like that love her you love her right you know like there's one f one federal marshal a federal um railroad cop from santa fe um railroad like he likes me a lot but he has a wife and i told him the other day i told him i said you know what i said all this nice stuff that you're saying to me say to your wife all this stuff that you buy for me supposedly buy it for your wife but you should appreciate it because i appreciate it if i appreciate it she'll appreciate it and be faithful to her you know that's what i told him he cried i was like what the hell are you crying for i'm just telling the truth i said because it's really [ __ ] up feeling when you know your partner is actually or your husband is actually cheating on you because i've had it happen to me that's why i really don't like dating because the majority are men that are married and that don't want their wife or their wife won't give them a head or their wife won't do this their wife won't do that that's why they come and look for other people they can't do it or they're on their period or whatever you know so like that's why i really don't like to do it you know i i try not to what's the most important lesson you've learned in your life patience patience and perseverance like and to listen to listen and listen really listen like not just sit there and like be not here but to really listen to people like because everybody has everybody has a story everybody needs like a lady the other day she came up to me a black lady and she was real dirty and she said can i speak to you for a minute and i say yes and she goes i'm going to kill myself today i know you're not why do you say that she said you know you're the first person that i asked that actually said yes that you speak to me and i saved that woman's life she was gonna go kill herself i seen her today so that was kind of nice and i seen her today and i was like wow i was like she all cleaned up and stuff she's staying at the other one sheltered and she thanked me for being being an ear so i was like wow that's stuff like that that's that's what and i've saved people's lives since i've been out here and they brought them back after overdosing i was the only one there so like i think there was a certain purpose but my main purpose was to come out my main purpose why i am still here doing this stuff but everything's coming together real quick like in less than two years instead of 25 or whatever is because i already learned my lesson i learned the value of money big time i had my hands were all tore up because i recycle so like my hands right now they're they're okay because i haven't had a recycle i have a place to stay you know i'm not on the street i'm not dirty i'm not touching the ground i'm not getting high on the street or whatever but like i value people that have hard working hands that look really bad i value them and i appreciate them that's what i had i had to learn that because i would make fun of people like inside not make fun of them but like be like oh i didn't want to touch their hand or whatever and now i see because people don't want to touch my hands sometimes you know and people look at me off weird and strange and kids run for me and i try to be nice to them you know i'm like dang i i'm like i'm sorry i'm so scared it's scary to you you know i thought okay that little kid started crying i was like what the heck and i told the lady i said hey you know you should teach your kid you know we're not that bad you know where they grab their purse and i'm like and i'm like [ __ ] my purse is a louis vuitton yours is a fake one what the hell you know you're why are you holding your purse i should be holding mine you know like people are just scary they it's just a stereotyping of everybody the way people perceive us as homeless you know like it's total i don't know all right tiffany all right thank you so much thank you so much for sharing your story all right thank you you

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