“OK, so what – I’m the provider, you’re the freaking consumer. “I’m thinking, why isn’t anybody asking how he recognized me?” she says. “They made me feel like I was contaminating everything.” By the time she was set to graduate, no one at the hospital would sign off on her required hours.Īlthough the hospital eventually issued Gauge an apology, she felt both wounded and perplexed by the experience. “Everybody wanted me in their room, but they started treating me like shit,” Gauge says.
Then an anesthesia tech recognized her, and word spread through the hospital staff that a porn star was among their ranks. I always thought I could do anything."Īfter a few years of saving money through feature dancing, Gauge went to school to get her certification as a surgical tech, reaching the top of her class and logging double her required hours in the process. “Some girls enter the business without a long-term plan, or maybe they think they can’t do anything else,” she says. Although she enjoyed her four-year stint in front of the camera, she wanted to take time off to prove to herself that she could succeed in other avenues. A 4-foot-11 Arkansas native best known her signature move - receiving anal sex while doing a handstand - Gauge abruptly left the industry after shooting more than 140 films, due to a contract dispute with her management company. When Gauge retired from the adult industry in 2005, she had big plans for her post-porn career.