I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath.

If pornographers can hook adolescents when their hormones are raging, they know they'll have an ongoing consumer base for life.

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

I was always an overachiever.

At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.

So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship.