After being fired from a school board job she held for nearly a decade, a Quebec office assistant who moonlighted as a porn actress has wholly embraced the industry that got her into hot water in the first place.
The woman — who prefers to go by her porn moniker Samantha Ardente — set tongues wagging in the spring when her off-hour escapades came to light after a student recognized her in an adult film.
Months after she sparked widely varying opinions on her activities, Ardente started a production house for adult films and starred in the company's debut flick.
"I feel positive about everything that happened," Ardente said through a translator. "It was a life experience but I came out a bigger and better person."
Founding her own adult film company was a step Ardente took only after gaining the approval of her 12-year-old daughter, who had previously been unaware her mother did porn on the side.
"I didn't have the time to tell my family what happened, they got to know it through the media," she said, adding that it was hard to deal with the impact her uninvited fame had on her loved ones.
"The name of my family was involved in a scandal."
Ardente was suspended from her job at a Quebec City-area high school in March after a student spotted her in a porn video on the Internet.
While she didn't deal with students in her job, the spicy contents of her videos turned her into quite the celebrity among them.
School board officials fired Ardente after they were unable to reach agreement on her transfer to another job. They acknowledged Ardente hadn't done anything illegal but said her cinematic activities don't correspond with the values being taught at the school.
Ardente had initially offered to put an end to her pornography career but said the board also wanted to impose working conditions that she felt would be too restrictive. After filing a grievance she eventually reached an out-of-court settlement with her employer.
After a rollercoaster ride encompassing both negative and positive reactions to her previously hidden life, Ardente said her supporters inspired her to push ahead with the very actions that touched off the controversy in the first place.
"I just continued with my life," she said.
Ardente said the production company she launched in August currently only makes tasteful "soft core" movies with couples. In her own film, she stars alongside her boyfriend and business associate Derek Tyler, but says she also has other projects with prominent porn stars in the works.
Ardente is already featured in a calendar that can be found in select Quebec stores and has plans to launch a lingerie line in the future.
"My life has changed in the sense that people who didn't know me before recognize me in the street as Samantha," she said.
"They say that they're happy to see I kept my head up and that I kept going forward instead of looking back."
Samantha Ardente en rajoute, en posant nue sur cinq pages, dans le nouveau numéro du magazine Summum, qui sera mis en vente demain.
Le magazine édité à Québec consacre cinq pages en textes et photos à celle qui a fait l'actualité, au cours des dernières semaines, après que sa double vie d'actrice porno et de secrétaire administrative a été révélée au public.
«Lorsque nous lui avons soumis l'idée de ce reportage, elle s'est montrée d'abord hésitante en raison de son travail.»
«Cependant, le jour où elle a perdu son emploi, elle nous a dit Oui tout de suite», expliquait au Journal, hier, Alain Rochette, rédacteur en chef du magazine pour hommes que publie le groupe Genex.
Samantha Ardente dans son plus simple appareil (Photo gracieuseté Summum)
Son choix de photos
«C'est elle-même qui nous a fourni les photos qu'elle avait fait prendre par un photographe de son choix».
En plus de montrer l'ancienne employée de la Commission scolaire des navigateurs dans son plus simple appareil, le reportage rapporte ses commentaires quant aux événements récents. Julie Gagnon raconte qu'elle aurait souhaité poursuivre sa double vie, si elle n'avait pas été démasquée par un élève de l'institution de Lévis.
«Vous allez me trouver naïve, mais oui, je croyais sincèrement que personne ne ferait le lien entre Julie et Samanta (son pseudonyme). Je désirais n'en tourner que quelques-uns (des films XXX), le temps de regar nir mon compte en banque».
Ami perdu
Elle parle aussi de ses deux filles. «Ma petite de trois ans est trop jeune pour comprendre, mais celle de onze ans a beaucoup de peine». Elle ajoute: «J'ai perdu un ami qui m'était cher, avec toute cette histoire. Je trouve dommage qu'il ait décidé de prendre ses distances.»
Samantha, qui se dit toujours célibataire, explique aussi qu'elle n'a «aucune restriction» lors du tournage de films pornos, ajoutant que le plus «wild» de ses cinq tournages était avec trois gars.
Elle dira aussi que faire du porno au Québec «ne rend pas riche» : «Ça paie à peine un voyage dans le sud». «Les tournages se font surtout dans des chalets et des suites d'hôtels. Ce n'est qu'en arrivant sur le plateau que l'on fait connaissance avec nos partenaires».
Mardi, elle a lancé son site Internet (www.samanthaardente.ca) et elle envisage produire une gamme de produits sexuels de marque Samantha
School secretary outed as porn star by pupil strips off again… despite promising to give up her seedy double life
May 28, 2011
May 28, 2011 Julie Gagnon - Samantha Ardente's Weird World
A porn star school secretary who promised to give up her seedy secret double life has stripped off again after being sacked from her day job.
Julie Gagnon, who goes by the stage name Samantha Ardente, made headlines around the world after being outed by a 14-year-old pupil from her school who recognised her in a porn film.
The young mother was finally sacked from her job at Etchemins High School near Quebec City last week after news of her starring role in the film Serial Abusers 2 reached school management.
Miss Gagnon, who has starred in five adult movies, had agreed to stop making them in a desperate bid to keep her job, but the school board claimed her film career ‘was not compatible’ with her position.
Despite being hopeful of regaining her school job after launching legal action against her sacking, Miss Gagnon has bared all in a five-page spread in the erotic magazine Summum.
In the May edition of the French-language lads’ mag, the former secretary disrobes in a series of provocative poses and explains how she imposed ‘no restrictions’ in her film scenes.
She describes how she entertained three men at the same time and tells the publication she would have continued to make porn films had her secret life not be discovered.
She said: ‘You’ll think I’m naive, but yes I sincerely believed that nobody would make the connection between Julie and Samantha.
‘I just wanted to do turn a few (porn films), just enough to replenish my bank account’.
Miss Gagnon now plans to launch a range of sex products under the ‘Samantha’ brand name.
She claims most of the movies were filmed in ‘chalets and hotel suites’ and she didn’t meet her film partners ‘until arriving on set’.
The magazine’s editor claims Miss Gagnon had originally rebuffed offers to strip off but changed her mind soon after finding herself out of work, and even provided her own private photos.
Editor Alain Rochette told QMI agency: ‘She said yes immediately.’
Miss Gagnon, who continues to fight her sacking, claims the young pupil who discovered her secret second life demanded sex in return for keeping quiet.
The Canadian boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was suspended from school in March for creating a fake Facebook page in her name with a racy profile picture of Miss Gagnon in her underwear, after she allegedly refused the boy’s request for an autograph.
But the secretary claimed this week that the boy – whose mother is a teacher – asked her to perform a sex act on him in a trade for his silence.
Miss Gagnon’s lawyer, Franco Schiro, claims his client became alarmed when the pupil inquired about her young daughter.
According to Mr Schiro, in an online conversation the pupil ‘basically asked her for oral sex in order to stop what was going to be happening to the daughter of my client’.
Miss Gagnon said she tried to start a police investigation, but was told by officers it wasn’t a criminal matter.
The owner of Pegas Productions, which makes the porn films Miss Gagnon has starred in, has condemned her sacking.
Nicolas Lafleur said: ‘She (Miss Gagnon) was very nervous. She didn’t want to lose her job and I don’t think she told everyone, so it wasn’t easy for her.’
According to Mr Schiro, in an online conversation the pupil ‘basically asked her for oral sex in order to stop what was going to be happening to the daughter of my client’.
Miss Gagnon said she tried to start a police investigation, but was told by officers it wasn’t a criminal matter.
The owner of Pegas Productions, which makes the porn films Miss Gagnon has starred in, has condemned her sacking.
Nicolas Lafleur said: ‘She (Miss Gagnon) was very nervous. She didn’t want to lose her job and I don’t think she told everyone, so it wasn’t easy for her.’
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