The HoneyDew with Ryan Sickler - 391: Maitland Ward on Boy Meets World & the Adult Industry | The HoneyDew with Ryan Sickler #391

Episode Date: June 22, 2026

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biz. You know what we do here. We highlight low lights. I always say these are the stories behind the storytellers. I am very excited to have this guest with us today. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Maitland War. Welcome to the honeymoon. Round of applause. God told you I was going to bring energy to you. Seriously. It was like a whole audience. First of all, thank you so much for being here. Thank you. Thank you for so much for having me. Oh, you're welcome. And before we get into your stories right there, please promote everything you like. Everything.

All of it. You can get my memoir at any bookstore, Amazon or whatever. It's called Rated X. And that's been out and it's out now. And all my information, like all my social media is my name, basically, Maitland Ward. So you can find all of the goodies there. And I have, you know, some exciting stuff coming up. I'm a packaging for television, my book adaptation for my memoir.

and I have another book that is going to be announced shortly. So that's exciting. That's great. Well, let's start at the beginning. Where are you from originally? I am from Long Beach, California. So I am a local native. I mean, most people don't believe that in L.A.

Well, you're rare to meet out here. Yeah. So I'm from Long Beach, which was, it was L.A., but it was very, it was removed from L.A. in the way that it felt like we didn't go there that much. I mean, it was kind of like it was distant enough. And as a kid, it felt like that too. So I wasn't like involved in like the whole, you know, Hollywood scene very, very young. That came a little later.

What did your mom and dad do? My mom was a homemaker and my dad was a journalist. And we lived in a very normal family. But I was an only child. Oh, you were? Yeah. And we were close with my grandmother on my father's side. And I was a very small family.

And I lived in a cookie cutter neighborhood just like any sort of. sort of family sitcom neighborhood you would think of. And I, I live there from all my life. So I didn't move around and stuff. And I, you know, had a very stable life. And I think people think, oh, because you do such wild things now or what they see. They think, oh, you must have come from a very, like, broken home. No, not at all. My parents are still married to this day. Are they? Yeah. I mean, how old are they now? Well, they're getting in their late 70s. So, you know, how long have they been married now? They've been married, I believe. It'll be, it will be, it will be 50 years.

Gosh. Yeah. That's, I mean, it will be. That is almost unheard of these days. Okay. So then how do you stumble into if that's, let me ask you, what sort of journalist? What's he writing for? The LA Times.

Oh, he's, okay. He's writing for LA Times. All right. Legit big time paper, especially then. Yeah. Yeah. Before internet. I know.

I know. It really became a different, right. I know. He's been retired from doing that for a while. But yeah, it was, it was great back then. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And it's funny because younger journalists will ask him, what was it like back in the days?

Because when he worked there, yeah, me growing up, but he also worked as a very young man in like the 70s and like in the heyday of journalism. Do you remember any stories he would tell you about from the 70s or 80s that were like a big deal that he wrote on or worked on then? I remember being very young. And we actually lived in San Diego when I was very young, like three. And then after that we moved to Long Beach. and there was a plane crash, a small plane crash into the houses. And I remember it was like the fire was going. I just remember him going to there to get the story.

And it was so like, oh, like on the spot. God, I forgot about that part. It's so. When a news reporter would show up. And I remember my dad just like goes like a. Yeah. Yeah. And those were the days back then.

I forgot about that. You had to go to the damn seat. And I remember, you know, it's funny. Another time I remember the story, he interviewed Mohamed Ali. And he swears to this day, he saw him. him levitate because he did this trick and he swears it was real and I I can't prove or not but he he says it was one of the most wild things because he really him and his partner say it was true it was real huh so then if mom's a homemaker how do you get your way into um Hollywood like what's

your first you know intro to that I was always like a kid that like to perform and like to be you know, scene and like just, I loved that whole fantasy world of acting and stuff and playing different characters because I was a very good girl and I was very straight-laced and stuff. And so I kind of thought like playing different characters and stuff made me, I could do different things. I could do anything that I wanted. And my friends and I were really big into making movies and we get our little camcorders and like just make whole productions. And it was like the most fun. Yeah, I was, I always love to do that. And so. in choir or any theater?

I was in, yes, all of it. All of it. And I did, I don't sing well. That was the only thing I didn't do. I was in, I was in the league club for a little bit. But yeah, in a group, I'm fine, but that wasn't my favorite.

But the theater, the place and stuff, I started doing acting classes when I was like 10. And in the community, not like L.A., just in the local place. And then I did community productions and like, then in high school, junior high and high school and stuff that I started getting into doing, you know, theater there for the drama programs and everything. But then it was like when I was 16 and my braces came off and stuff. I, first of all, I was a soap opera fan, a big soap opera fan when I was 12.

I was days of our lives. Okay. It's so funny you say that. I don't mean to interrupt because I used to live in this building. It was me and my brother and we were the white people in the whole building. and we would see all the black ladies and they would all be like, and they called them their stories.

Yeah, that's great. It wasn't days of our lives. Like, I got to, I said days too. I'm watching days. I watched this. That was the one.

That was like the one. But especially for like a girl 12, 13 and stuff, you know, in the summers and stuff I'd love to watch. But so when I was 16, I saw there was this acting class that was going to be taught by a casting actor from, was from the Bold and the Beautiful. But I was like, I was talking about broadcasting.

We're going to have a whole workshop. And it was at this place in Studio City. It was called TVI, TV actors, whatever it was. And so I said, I want to sign up. And I signed up. And I thought I was going to be in like this room with all these like hot young guys who were on soaps and stuff. But it was a lot of like actors looking for jobs who were in like their mid 30s. And I was like 15, 16.

and I was, I just was amazed at the, like, I was in this room with all of these, like, professional actors who all of them were smoking at that time, like, just like, I went to this audition and, like, you know, just and I was like, oh gosh. But you weren't intimidated enough to leave. No, I wasn't. I stayed for the whole time. And at the end of it, she says, Christy, the casting director, was like, have, do you want to try out for my show? And I was like, what? She says, you're really good. Like, you really can, you know, hold your own with these people and stuff.

And there was a part they were casting for the young summer storyline. And I was just like what I think I'm the only one in TBI history to get a role from the casting to workshop. Instantly. Like, not instantly. I did the auditions and I had to go back and do screen tests. And I met, you know, all the producers and everything. And so I had about three I went to. And can I ask you when they're putting you through that process, do you know what sort of role

they're feeling out for you or are they testing you to see what they're going to cast you as? They will, they don't give you the exact written role because- You know, like the punk teenager, are you the daughter? I knew I was going to be the sweet ingenue that came into the Forrester family, which is the main family. They kind of gave me older scripts from other characters to work off of that were kind of similar to me because they didn't have the script written yet because of soap opera doesn't have it that far in advance.

And so I remember, yeah, reading. off of these scripts. But the character was so close to how I was kind of at that time. And so it was really fitting. But they definitely did add stuff later to bring my personal, you know, personality into the role. A funny thing is I set on my resume that I played the violin because I did in school take violin lessons. And TVI told me put anything in everything. I remember that.

Yeah. I could drive a stick shift. Yeah. That was on there. They did all of those. I know. So I was like, yeah, violin. And so the executive producer Brad Bell, he invites me into his office and he said, okay, we have a thing.

We're going to have you play the violin on the show. It's going to be like your thing since you play. And I was like, oh, yeah. And then so I said, I could take lessons. I forgot all my lessons. This was like third grade. I took it in. So basically, so I tried to, I tried to take some lessons.

Instead of just saying, instead of just say, hey. Instead of just say, and the day of, the day of I come on set and I get my violin. And I start to play and everybody's like, oh, my God. And it was horrible. But I said, I really can't play that well. But I swear to this day, if I see him, he will still say how was those violin lessons. They ended up dubbing in the music and they dropped the storyline after that. But so let me just go back for a sec.

So you go, the lady says, hey, would you like to audition for my show? You go through the screen test, all that stuff. And then how soon do you know you're on the show? It took some months, actually. And I wasn't sure that I was going to get on the show. Like, I tested with her first. And that went right away. Like she had me read in her office.

And she said, okay, then we're going to do another one for somebody. And then I did, it took a few weeks, I remember. And then I did it for the producers. and then I didn't hear anything for a little while. But soap operas are different because they work on such a long scale. It's not like they're getting ready for the season to start or they have to have it in that time frame. They did want it by summer, but still, this was, I think I auditioned in like February or something. So they still had time there.

So I hadn't heard for a while and all of a sudden I got the call that said, okay, they want you to come in for a big screen test. And this is like a screen test. This isn't like, you know, just going on camera. It was like you get full hair and makeup. You, the whole day you're partnered up with the guy that you want might be working with you. It was two pairs. Like they had two girls and two guys at the screen test. Oh, sure.

You're seeing the girl that could take your job. Oh, shit. That's even more pressure. Yeah. And the girl who was against me was Brittany Daniel who I worked with in white chicks later. And we would joke about that. Yeah. Yeah.

It was foreshadowing there too. It's so weird. But yeah. So you see. girl and then the two guys. And so that was wild because also I was the youngest one there. I had to bring my mom because I was 16. Yeah. And so it was wild because then I had to kiss the guy in the test. And I mean, I had kissed, but I'm not on screen, like not in front of everything. My mom can see on the monitors and stuff. So it was like really nerve-wracking. But I did it. And I remember being on camera

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quince.com slash honeydew and you're now on is it it's the bold and beautiful you're now on bold and beautiful yes how long do you do that Three years. So 16 to what night? So out of high school. Out of high school, yeah. And how are you juggling that? Like, what's your shoot schedule and all that stuff?

Because this is no fucking Zoom and stuff. No, no. It was, we worked five days a week. Sometimes we did three shows in two days. Like, it was insane. Yeah. Weren't they hour long shows? No, ours was a half an hour.

So it was a little bit better. But the sister soap, The Young and the Restless was an hour. And they were insane amount of work. So I had a great think time. though because I went to school part-time and I had a tutor part-time. So I would work, the show would work five days a week, but I would probably be on about three, you know, depending on the storyline. In the summer, it was more, but I wasn't going to school in the summer. So I would have my tutor who was amazing. And then I'd go to school and I'd come back and

be like this soap star at school. I was going to ask you, your popularity just going crazy. Yeah, but I wasn't like the popular girl ahead of time. I was fine. But I was so it was weird. I either got really popular with certain people or really hated by others. What about the boys, though? They got more intimidated, I think. I really do. I mean, it was, and I was so not comfortable in my sexuality and stuff personally. I wasn't like one of those girls that was, oh, I, you know, flirting with the boys all the time and stuff.

I was much more, you know, closed off and stuff like that. So then how do you get into Boy Meets World? that's well that was you know later so uh i would i just went on a bunch of auditions first all right after i did um bold and beautiful and that's when i started to do like see that comedy was possible and i always loved doing that when i was a kid like i loved comedy stuff i love i was a big prank caller were you yeah hell yeah tell me about some of those who you calling oh i love to play it on my dad he falls for it and then he doesn't get mad at it He like, it's good.

So one, it's funny from one time on the soap opera, The Bull and the Beautiful, two of the guys that I work with and a friend of ours from the show, we went to Not Scary Farm. This is a joke that we did. And while we were in there, I said to my girlfriend, I said, let's move the car. Because we had parked the car. Do you remember in Nostbury Farm where you park it at the chicken dinner restaurant? Yeah, I know. And you go, oh, that's the trick. You know, and back then they did.

I didn't check. I don't, they probably do today. They do, by the way. Yeah. That's where I park. in the 90s, they were like, park it. And so, and there are, one of the guys was, I don't know, we're going to get arrested. No, not arrested. We're going to, not arrested. They're going to tick it us and tow it. And we go, oh, no, no.

She's like, I go all the time. It's fine. And so I said, let's move the car and pretend that we got towed. And so we did. In the middle, we go, oh, we have to go the bathroom. We're going to go here. So we move the car to like the farthest place. So when we come out, the guys are.

like, what? And the one guy was just like, my computer was in there. He's like, oh, and we keep it going. But the thing about it is, the other guy who was there, he wasn't reacting as big because actually the guy who was reacting big. It was his car. But the other guy was, he called the police and said our car was stolen. When we didn't know he was doing it.

I was going to say, oh, my God. No, we didn't let him go. He comes and goes, oh, I called the police. to tell him to come out and throw this, and we're like, oh, my God, it turned into this whole thing. But it was, it was classic. I loved it. I don't go with. That doesn't go with.

Okay, so when do you find out? How old are you when you get Boy Meets World? I was about 21, just around there. So not long after. No, it wasn't that long after. That's pretty quick. And I auditioned for a show called Zoe Duncan, Jack, and Jane, which the executive producer of Boy Meets World was producing. I just mentioned that because that's how I met him.

So it was actually me and Selma Blair against each other. Oh, yeah, okay. Yeah, and it was for the WB back then, but the CW or whatever. And it was just, I just remember going into the audition, and it was for him. There's producers and writers around and stuff because I had originally gone to the casting director first, and she brought me to producers. And I remember he, we laugh about it to this day. though, he said, like I said my lines and did everything, and he just like critiqued every single

line. Like, would you do it like this? What about like this? What about like this? And I thought, oh my God, he hates me so much. But then at the end he's like, okay, come back for the test next week. We'll go over. And I was like, wow. I felt like I was working with a coach. And you know what? It turned out to be in a good way because I knew what to expect from the audition. And when I came back to test for the work and stuff, he had given me like so much, you know, information and stuff that I had to do and so much direction that when I did it in front of him in the network and everything, afterwards, he was like, that was perfect. And then, but I didn't get that role.

Oh, okay. I didn't get so young and jack and take. But you proved you could listen and take direction and yeah. But he was like, he says, he's like, no, I have to have her for my other show boy. And for Boy Meets World, that's how my character. came about because I yeah so they wrote my character in well they wrote you in fuck yeah yeah they were they were thinking about adding um a girl to this storyline that they had on the show with these two guys though if you know the show the older brother and will fredel and matt lawrence

they were living in an apartment they were a little bit older than the other boy meets world characters um and so they were looking for sort of a three's company site type situation to have some, you know, the guys would go back and forth about a girl, but they hadn't picked anyone or auditioned anyone or thought of anything like that. So when he saw me, so that's it, let's do this. And so that's how I came about on Boy Meets World. And you were there from the get-go then? I was, no, no, no, no. I came in late. That's why I came into their story. I came in the college years. But a funny story that a lot of people don't realize on Boy Meets World, I actually auditioned for Boy Meets World a part, like a single episode, guest star, when I was on The Bold and

and Beautiful. And I got the part. Oh, you did? Yes. And it was for, God, it was for the, people remember, I don't even remember the character's name or anything, but she was like the biker girl, the girlfriend of the biker guy in the show. And I remember, I could not do the park because I had to work at the Bull and Beautiful. And they were mad at it. And I, and, and, And is that because they won't let you or just the schedule? Schedule. Yeah, they couldn't let me go out the whole week. And they probably were like, no, we don't want to work in other things.

But if I was off that week, I could have done it. But I wasn't. And so I didn't get that part. But I would have never gotten my future part. They wouldn't have had me on an, you know, a longer role if I had done that other part. So then how long do you work on Boy Meets World? The last two seasons. Two seasons.

Back when a season was a season. Oh, back when it was 24 episodes. It was not six or four. No, no, no, no. It was full on. Yeah. I know, seriously, we look nowadays, I'm like, oh, my God, they don't even work hardly any. Yeah.

So after that, then, what comes next? Then I did a bunch of, like, pilot stuff and everything. And then eventually not so long after I got white chicks. the movie and that was that was really awesome to work with the wayans brothers on that it was really really fun and and another iconic piece i've been i've been very fortunate to be in really kind of cult classic kind of things because um the bull and the beautiful is actually i don't know if you realize this at the time it was only second to bay watch in the world whoa i did not know it was the number two most popular international show you would go to european tours and

like everyone would be there. And so, yeah, it was like here. And they all knew you and everything too, huh? Yeah. And you go, I went on European tours that were just amazing to see all of the people come out. So that's interesting then. So you've got a fan base outside the United States when you hit boy meets world. Yeah.

Wow. Yeah. Girl meets world. But no, it's interesting because I don't, people don't realize that about Bold and Beautiful. It's not anymore. But back then it was like, because the. and the beautiful takes place in like a in L.A. in this glamorous fashion world and I really think that you know people overseas can identify with that Hollywood fashion like glamour and it was so beautiful and

everything. But yeah. So so having that iconic piece and then Boy Meets World of course, which is, you know, legendary now. And at the time we had no clue that it was. We thought it was just it's a good show. We're on it. We have fun. The ratings are pretty good. But, you know, we just, we just, just unless you went to like a mall and saw people, you know, come out to see you because we didn't have social media or anything back then. But it's really cool to see all the nostalgia now for the show. Oh, big time. Yeah. BetmGM, an official sports betting partner of the National Hockey League, has everything for the action on and off the ice. Betmgm.com for terms and conditions. 19 plus to wager, Ontario only.

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I'm like, how the hell did you even find that? She's like, oh, it's our year on this. You know, that's kind of unusual, though, because they see now kids don't have as much of a connection to older shows like we, like we did. Yeah. Because we would watch whatever was the rerun on. Well, it's all whatever you had. Whatever you had.

So now they have so much choice, the fact that she's like searching that out. She likes it. And I still think the classic or the older sitcoms are better for timing and comedy and all that shit anyway. Even though it's, you hear it now, you're like, oh my God, it's so easy. It's that wasn't then. You know, it's like boom, boom, boom. That's very, very systematic.

It was. Yeah, absolutely. Okay. So then when it comes to the adult industry, Are you approached or is it something you decide I'm interested in? How does that come about? It was, that comes about like from decades of like, of me discovering myself. Everybody thinks because they saw an announcement, oh, Rachel from Boyme's World does porn. It happened like that and I just decided to do porn.

I had been, you know, dealing with my own like sexual identity as a woman, just like what I wanted from my life. I had lived under like this sheltered lifestyle. You think in Hollywood I would have been like really crazy and everything. But no, I was, I still tried to uphold this good girl image. But even when you're on Bold and Beautiful at 16, they're looking after you and stuff. When I was there, I was the very like innocent girl who everything bad happened to. I was not partying quietly off at the side. No, I was not.

No, I was not. Not to any degree that's, you know, crazy or anything. Like the Drew Baramore type stuff. no, no, no, I was very good. And I tried to be very good, you know, for my family and from my image. I thought, oh, I thought, you know, I want to be the, you know, good, smart girl. It gets everything, you know, accomplished and everything. But I also, that hurt that I didn't explore myself that much when I was younger. So in actuality, it was funny because I got really, I really like frustrated, I guess, with the industry the mainstream Hollywood industry because I was pigeonholed and put into a hole, like put into a box

for so long like, oh, you were the girl from Boy Meets World. You were this. You can only do this. You can now let's have you play the young mom. Let's have you be the soccer mom, like the kind of things that I didn't want to do anymore. And I couldn't like explore other roles that I wanted to. And so I actually, I ended up getting married and moved to New York. And that's when I started to explore my own sexuality and why person after marriage after marriage. You waited until after marriage. I did. And he's been amazing that he's been so for everything that I've done. I know. It's hilarious to hear that after marriage is when you're like, you know what? Now I won't get into porn. And I know people think it sounds crazy, but it's kind of wild because it offered me like a safe

space at home. And then I wasn't out going to the bars or anything and do it. I mean more like I was exploring erotic writing and I was doing like like exploring like what I liked sexually and all that stuff. I wasn't doing. Exploring it reading or you're actually writing? Well, first it was reading and then I was writing my own and then I was writing out like more explicit things like things I'd want to try and do. And it wasn't about like having, oh, I'm going to go out and have an affair or anything like that. It was about no, I really want to just try this like stuff. But again, that did not happen for a long time. That was just the start of it. But that's also a personal thing that you're doing.

Yes, for myself. Privately. There was nothing public about it. It was just me and my husband and my husband. And are you experimenting with your husband at that time too with like let's try this and this together and these things? It was that kind of thing. Gotcha.

And so I eventually, we came back to LA and everything and then I just was like thinking more and more about it. And then I started going to UCLA for screenwriting. And I did that for two years. And I feel like all of my scripts had this sort of erotic back. element to it. They weren't like born scripts or anything, but they had this, these characters that like I wanted to portray that were more wild and unabashed and very like just more dramatic and but, you know, just just different from anything that I have ever played and they had a sexual

undertone to them in parts. Like I did write comedy and stuff, but still it had a, it had a spice to the character. And then I started like exploring that a little more. And then a very, a very, a very Eventually, Girl Meets World, the show, which was the spinoff of Boy Meets World, came out. And that got renewed interest for the Boy Meets World community. It was amazing to see how many people were so nostalgic for the show and just seeing the people on the show. And that was right at the beginning of when social media was like really going viral. Like Instagram, this was like 2013 or something. Like Instagram was really taking off.

And I had like nobody on my account, really, just my friends. and I was just trying it out and stuff. And I remember I went to the pilot taping of Girl Meets World. And I took a picture with Bill Daniels, Mr. Feeney. And I put it up and it like went viral the next day. And I was like, whoa, this is like the power of what that can do. And then I started seeing that I was getting a following of people who were interested in what I was doing now. And I had been told for so long that I fights many people in the industry, like, oh, once you get past,

25 or once you get they don't want to see sexy they don't want to see you out there they need to see you like a certain way like all the Disney stars you know going to the Hallmark network or whatever now not downing and I'm just saying that's that's the only path the Disney stars are all the sluttiest ones yeah but I mean like yeah they are there are other ones yeah exactly but um it's the underbelly of Hollywood um so I was like you know what I'm I'm just going to go all my social media and do stuff that I like to do. And first I started out with like cosplay. I did,

I loved that. Okay. And so I'd start taking, you know, sexy pictures and sexier cosplay. And I was like, this is fun. I like this. And then I would just do fun pictures and like bikini pictures and stuff. And people were seeing me in new light. And I was like, I like this new, fun, sexy image that I'm having.

And people were responding. And I had a Snapchat when it first, you know, was, you know, starting. and people started really following that and have snaps on there all the time. And I remember I was once at San Diego Comic-Con and I knew things were different because the guy came up to me and said, oh, I know you. I'm a big fan of yours. And I was like, oh, I thought, you know, Boy Meets World or something. And he's like, I watch you on Snapchat. And I was like, wow, this is really taking off in a new direction. And again, this is over years, a period of years. And my first real, like, big success with cosplay was when I did a slave Leah,

May for May the Fourth be with you with a photographer, friend of mine who had an authentic costume. And we did a whole thing. And that was like just went everywhere. And I was like, wow, I can actually have a sort of career doing this kind of stuff that I really love and have fun with. And then it just started to snowball a little bit from there. I started. Because that's what I want to ask.

Where's the shift mentally going from just. I'm putting myself out here sexually already in photos. But let's take it to the next level. I had this exhibitionist style, like exhibition aside, that I really was enjoying. And so in doing it with these costumes and these roles, I was like, let me do a little bit more, a little bit more. But I kept getting kicked off of like Snapchat and stuff first, and especially on Instagram for any, any little thing. I wasn't showing boobs, but it was like, oh, there's a little shadow and we're going to kick you off for this.

And so I was like, how do I have fun with this anymore? And my fans one time, they were like, well, why don't you sell content? And I was like, I didn't even know what content was. And they were like, start a Patreon or start a content. And I was like, I don't know. This is before only fans. Yes. This is back in like 2018 at the beginning. And I said, oh, let's just start it. And one overnight, like one tonight, I just said, let me just sign up on a page.

And I'll, you know, maybe I'll announce it. I don't know. And the next day, I already had like 20 subscribers without announcing it. By the end of the week, I was the number one adult creator, like adult naming nudies. Like, you know, that kind of stuff. Can let me ask you, say nudies, how new are we talking at first? What are we just topless? Yeah.

At first, yeah, probably just top list. And like a thong or something? Yeah. Okay. But then it progressed quickly. And they're photos only first. Yeah, pretty much photos first. I mean, I did Snapchat.

I also sold the personal Snapchat. And then I started to get more, you know, crazy with that. And then I was like, I like, I like this. And I felt like I was really taking my fans who were subscribing on an authentic personal journey with me throughout my, for my sexuality and everything. So we started out doing the pictures. Then we quickly, I started to get full nude, like, and then it got into like, definitely a lot of cosplay sexy stuff that people loved.

Then I do videos like that. And then I do like solo videos and it got more like that. And then I had a friend who flashed back to a few years earlier. I did a little press thing that for International Kiss a Ginger Day, if you know when that is, it's in January. But I wanted to do a whole setup. Like that was really cute. Like,

you know, whatever. And so it was actually very hard to find it like an actress who would do it with me. So I had a friend who knew of a lesbian porn actress, cute as a anything, little redhead. I needed a redhead, first of all, for the ginger day, of course. Yes. It wasn't, she's just kissing me, but, you know. So she did it and she was a fan of Boy Meets World too.

And we had so much fun. and then it actually got heated. We didn't show all the pictures at that point or anything, but we went much further than, you know, just the stuff that we released to the press. Not crazy, crazy, but still, at the end of that, she was like, you're going to do something in this business one day. And I said, no, I wouldn't actually do it for serious.

And she's like, no, you weren't nervous. And so I was like, oh, but again, that was some years before I actually was doing content. So her and another friend of hers recommended, you know, that I would do some, you know, lesbian content. And so I started, I had a slumber party first with a couple of girls who were porn stars. This is real life. This is not our, this is not the storyline of the porn. No, this is not the story. This is me filming content.

I mean, we did set it up like a little sleepover and stuff. Oh, girl slumber party. And then I did a real shoot for my content with L. Alexander, who was the little redhead, who was adorable. Now, had you been with women prior to doing this? Okay, so that wasn't new to you at that point. That wasn't new to me, but to show the world, it was very, very. Which I do want to jump back to for a second because you're already putting nude photos out there. At that, what, I guess what point do you get where you're like, look, I know what everyone's going to say.

I'm the girl from Boy Meets World, but even though it's you're paying on Patreon, someone could screen grab it and share it. Like, look what Maitland Ward's doing. Like, how do you, were you worried about that at all or were you not? Yes, I was, but I felt so free and liberated. And for the first time, really, that I was having so much fun. I was making so much money for my business. And that wasn't why I went into any of it. It was just an after effect, which was amazing.

And so I was really fueled by this. My audience was amazing. I was having fun. I was exploring more and more. And so I didn't really care after. while what people said because I was finally like I was killing it out there and I loved it. And so I didn't have any concerns about that really. And in that time, I know they can screen grab it. Most people did not know that that was going on though. They didn't know the actual.

Yeah, people on the internet guys would scream rabbit and I had all problems with that like selling content. But the majority of the people wouldn't like pick up on that. And you can't post anything on Instagram about that. You can say, go, you know, to Patreon. And it was Patreon, too. It wasn't a lot of that. Oh, Patreon. For years, I got away with stuff on Patreon. I was, but then it finally got to the point where I was like, I want to, I want to do a guy. I want the whole thing. I want to do the full scene. On camera. On camera. Now, hold on. Yes. How do you talk your husband in that? I know. We did have long conversations about that. But what we look at it as I'm not doing it off this off screen like off me.

Never. No. No. But this is my place to play. And I get to have that safe space. And so I, it's good. That was my, like my freedom and that. Does he get to be with other women?

No. Well, I'm not telling him he can't be. He doesn't do that kind of stuff. Like, so he's not into that. But the fact that you can be with other men on camera doesn't give him a free pass to go be with other women in regular life. No, not in regular life. No, no. because that doesn't give me a free pass either,

just in regular life to go hook up with people. But if he were to do work and involve that, you would say yes. If he wants to go on and he would laugh at this. But if he wants to go on and do content, I'm all for it. Oh, you guys have never together. No.

He doesn't like to perform. No, he wouldn't. No. All right. So now you've got to have a conversation with your husband of like, I want to fuck a guy on camera. But it was actually a really great conversation. And of course,

there were several conversations along the way, but he was very supportive of me because I had been very sheltered when I was young and stuff. And there were things that I really wanted to try and do. So actually, in this adult space, first of all, you're tested for any STDs, you know, all the time. You're with professionals. You're in a setup that you've okayed and consented on and made the rules and everything. So ahead of time, you're like, can't come in me, can't smack my face. So you lay out all You lay it out. That's how it is with any porn scene. Is that right? Yeah. You have to have all the consent and all the nose and yeses and sign paperwork. And these things are more money. Yeah. Anal is more than right. Right. Exactly. Okay. So walk me through first shoot with a dude. Are you nervous as hell? Like I'd be scared. I'm going to diarrhea everywhere. I'd just be so. I'm just so. The first time I actually had full sex on camera with a guy was, he was a British guy's great guy. If it wouldn't have gone so well with him. because he was just funny. My husband and him were talking beforehand.

Oh, my God. No, your husband did come. Yeah. Oh, yeah. No pun intended. Okay. Wait. Do you pick him?

How does it happen? How's that working? I asked one of my porn star friends who was in my similar parties and stuff. And she said, this guy's really great. And he really was. This is the second virginity he's taking this guy. It's the first time on camera. be a second sort of virginity.

That's right. Yeah. But so he came and I, he did come. The joke's going to keep going. No. So we had a hotel room and then, and she came the other girl too. She was part of the first time. And how many people shoot this setup?

Nobody just actually. My husband was actually, he did snapchats and stuff. So it was just like one like, yeah. Okay. This wasn't a full on. No, no, no. This was, we're doing in here right now. This was content in, yeah, it was like, let's just do it.

Let's just, and I think people were kind of surprised from my content buyers that, whoa, she's gone all the way now. But very excited. But so he comes to the room and he's joking and he's fun and then we get into it. And then it just flows. It just, the whole thing just happens. And at the end of it, he, I remember that he said to me, he was like, you just, we weren't nervous. I thought you were going to be so nervous. He said the same thing.

Yeah. And it wasn't. I'm never nervous when I'm doing that. It's empowering. I get to control the situation and have like all the fun I want to have. And it's, I also feel very artistic about it too now. And I know people say, oh, artistic. No, but I love the dramatic sexiness about it.

And I love that it can be art if it wants to be. It doesn't have to all be stupid, you know, pizza boy scenes or something. You know, it can be real cinematic stuff with hot sex in it. What's been the worst one that I've done or personally? I didn't do any of those, really. I didn't do any stuff like that, except joking stuff I did on my content. But I don't, you know, that's okay. But when I was actually going to get involved in professional porn.

Yeah, this is the next week. Now, how do we talk our husband into that part now? Well, it's kind of the same situation except on a bigger scale and actually more of a, more of a professional, like, you know, studio scale. I mean, how many people are in that room? Oh, a lot. Yeah. And we had, the company that I work with, Vixen, is. That's the one.

Yeah. So we've got a full set. It's like a full set like for like an independent film. Right there by the end of the house. Coanga. I don't know where that. No, we like.

But wait, that didn't make you nervous either or is that even more empowering to have all those people watching as well? Okay. So this is how it turned out the wildness of this situation. I was approached by Vixen to do a scene for black.com. And I was like, because I,

in my personal content and stuff, I was thinking, geez, I really want to do something that's, you know, professional and dramatic and that's really like on a large scale instead of just filming content and stuff and doing my photo galleries, which is great. So when they approached me, I did have to think about it. I went back and forth on it and everything. But I said, this is the best company. And like they do everything super high end and glossy and like you're going to look great and it's going to be, you know, super good. So I went there and you'd think you'd be nervous, but it was really great. It felt like I was first doing a

Vogue shoot because it was like they had all these clothes and lingerie and everything laid out. And we did this whole photo shoot and little scenic thing of like walking on the streets of L.A. glamorous with my, you know, Chanel bags and my Chanel suits and stuff. And then we got into the scene. But again, it went so great. But when that scene came out, It like literally broke the site and it was not announced to the public except on my social media and like that stuff, but I didn't go to the press with it or anything. And shockingly, it didn't get a ton of press play. I don't know if people just missed it, but it was huge. It sold crazy numbers, you know, through the viral grapevine.

So the data. And sorry, is this only your second one at this point? No, I started filming on my content and doing different things. Okay. But this is your first big production. Yeah, yes. But I only worked on my content with one other guy. So it was like these comfortable partners that I was trying new things with.

And they were kind of training me sort of unbeknownst to them for the professional world because I learned so much from them. So I did have the comfort factor of that going into this. But that scene came out. And literally on that day, Caden Cross, who owns one of the Vixen Brands Deeper.com, which is she had just started it there and they were doing their first big film and it was the cinematic like the cinematic site of what where they're doing full-length features and everything and she loses her one of her lead actors for the actresses for the role for personal reasons and stuff and she didn't have anybody to like take her place and it's kind of

hard to find a performer that wants to do a ton of dialogue and wants to do like a full production of film. And this was kind of like a new, you know, genre that they were really attempting to start. And so she thought her film was done for that year. Like she was going to have to go back to the drawing board. And when she went to the offices that Monday, like after my scene had been out on the Saturday, they said, talk to Maitland. You need to get her. And by that week, we met and I remember getting the script from her to see it, it was like a full movie script. It was nothing, if you would have taken out the sex parts,

you would have just, it was a full movie script. And I was like, this is possible, this is what I want. I want to, you know, merge the genres where you can have a storyline you're watching and you like. Old and beautiful meets. Yeah, like, and then you have the sex, yes. And so it was this. And then it was.

I don't know. There's all sorts of possibilities. But you are at the beginning of that too, really. Yeah. That's a that, that no one gave a shit about that before. You know what I mean? They didn't. And you're like, yeah, let's do this.

Yeah. So you fill in? So I'm the co-lead with Angela White, who's the biggest porn star in the industry and Manuel Ferrer. And we do it. It comes out. I, everyone told me, the press is going to tell you. part if you tell them. You know, don't, don't go out there. But I had a friend, friendly with,

that was a reporter. And she worked, you know, so I said, can you know, can we do this, this piece? And it was for all of the, you know, the magazines like you get the life and style and the us and all those ones and stuff. And so she did it. And everybody's like, they're going to be killed in the press when this comes out. Through headlines like she gave or were just so nice. They were like, Maitland empowers herself or whatever it was. And it really shifted this conversation. Like, so the whole world picked up on it because it was, it was beating Bernie Sanders heart attack that day.

So I Google, I, yeah. And so I always say I'm the one who gave him the heart. He's the life, man. We're going with Maitland over here. Yeah. I gave him the heart attack. Yeah. But yeah.

So it was like all over. I've never seen crazy. And it was funny because deeper.com was new for Vixen brands at that time. And this was the first big film. And the subscriptions were like going, going. Like just insane sales. It was just. So you're actually really helping both of these.

Yeah. But it was like we joined up to do something really special that really hadn't been done much in porn. I mean, there were some that had been. But to do a full cinematic like story the piece with acting. Right. That's what I'm saying. Usually it's weird to be. Pood to pizza.

Yeah. That's it. Yeah. And this was like. And you got lighting and sound and yeah. And so we, so it was a huge success. And I signed on to be the, you know, the brand ambassador and did so many projects. Like during the pandemic, we did a whole, a whole series called Muse, which actually asked the question, can porn be art?

And I was a professor who was posing that question to my students. And it was really cool. We did a whole artistic thing and it won so many awards. And so we've done a lot of stuff like that that's been so out of the box. Okay, let's go into who was it more difficult to convince your husband or mom and dad? Oh, yeah, yeah. My dad actually. Yeah.

Although they've been very supportive now. So, I mean, I was older. I'm not like a, I'm 18 going up to the porn set. I have a mind and life of my own that I was. But yeah, we don't like, they don't. look at it or anything like that. But it was no conversation with dad at all.

Like he always was just quiet about it. No, no, no. There was a conversation after the facts. Or is it coming from mom? Like, you know, your dad's really upset about this. No, they didn't act like that that badly. Because you're their only child too. I know.

But I think it was in the way that it was done because it was such a like movie kind of thing. And I, you know, I don't know. I don't think they don't want to think about all the details. of it. But I had such success with it and stuff. And they saw that I was happy. Like, I was so positive about it and everything. So that was, that was good. My grandmother would have died if she hadn't already been dead. So that was the real one. That generation they go off for it. And I had some, I do have some, like distant cousins who don't like me anymore. Is that right?

They don't talk to. Okay. So now you're going to do more and more. What's the first time? you have two guys. Oh, two guys. And is that the first time in your life you ever had that? No. It's a lot to fucking prepare for. In that way, it depends on which way. Are you talking about a DP?

Yes. Or just a two guys. No. DP, okay. I didn't do a DP until, and let me just say, I did have done pretty much everything that maybe not extreme stream hardcore. But I always said, I want my street credit. I'm not some Disney Star who came in and just said,

Oh, I'm going a little missionary and I'm done. No, no, no. I did all of it and I won awards for it. One awards for it. I won for my DP. I won an ex-fiz award for my DP. You did? Yeah.

But I did that a little bit later because you kind of tried in porn. It's not like everything you want to do right away. You try to like time it out. This also want I ask you. You're also trying to just outdo yourself a little bit each time. Yeah. So you kind of go a little further each time. So is it mean two, then three?

Yeah, my first anal was like around the end of the pan. Well, it was during Muse. So after the pandemic, I'm just giving timing wise. But that was a big deal. And everybody was like, oh, my God, I don't think any celebrity, well, fair Abraham, I think. But I don't. I was done like an anal out there like that. And I remember they were very good with me that day.

And I had to learn about how you clean out ahead of time and how you prepare. Tell me, because this is what I've heard the porn ladies say. It's not about what you ate today. It's about what you ate yesterday. That's what I heard of say. But I have to say, okay, I, you know, I'm. Are you fasting the night before? I did that time.

I've discovered that I don't really need to. It doesn't really. I'm pretty good at cleaning out fast and stuff. What's that, how do you clean out? Anima. Enema, yeah. That's the best way. Yeah.

So basically, I tried to fast the night before and I was all nervous. I was like, oh, what am I going to do? I did an enema the night before, the enema of the morning of, and then you kind of wash out with water, like warm water, just to get everything out. And that's what I did. Now I feel like I can just, I don't really stop eating the night before. But I do the enema, I wash out, and I'm good.

As long as it's the morning, it's not really that. I'm very natural with anal, honestly. There's some, I, listen, my first anal was with Manuel for error. And if you know Manuel at all, he's very, large and he was so sweet. He was like before the scene, he's like, we'll go very slow. We'll go on this. Take time. I'll whatever you need. And we joke about it that he was like, he started to, you know, go and it slipped, it went all the way in. He goes, it went in and it wasn't letting me go again. So it was like, it was great. And we did the first anal scene like that within like

and just filmed it all out with 30 minutes and stuff. So and then so I did more anal stuff along the way because I'm just good at it. You're an award-winning anal actress, girl. What's the most men you've had at one time? I did an orgy, but there was a lot of girls, too, and I don't, I'd say the gang bang had four. And I had another kind of gang bang with four. Four.

So four guys, I think. I don't think there's five. And each time we're escalating. Are we having to talk with our husband about this is what I want to do next? Or are you just got your freedom at this point now? Yeah, there's conversations. Do you ever come home and be like, this is what I did today and he doesn't know what you're going to do? No.

He would know what I would do ahead of time. But at that point, it was just rolling. And you know what? It becomes very, it's hot and you're having fun, but it's not like you're hooking up with somebody in real life. You're in a very professional, like, dramatic situation where you have to, you know, work, too. So it's not the same. You're not having emotional attachments to people. You're not, you know, it's not creating messy situations. It's like you go in there. And a lot of times that's the guys I've known. Like they keep there's not, the hardest thing to find in porn is a guy who can really perform and really do well for a long period of time. So you tend to work with a lot of the same guys. Usual suspects. Do you have a favorite? it um i loved danny and isaiah who i had worked with in my content because they they should they taught me

so much and um so they always like have a special place in my heart and man well and i work amazingly together um and i work with jason love and several times he was my first scene yeah jesus he's my first thing yeah first that was him that was him see i'm not you weren't fucking i'm not You did not tiptoe in. No. Holy shit. Yeah, I know. Okay, let me ask you a personal question.

After a scene, after work, what's it like to go home to your husband and is intimacy different? And do you wait a little while? And, you know, how does that, you know, is it change things? I don't think it's different necessarily. First of all, when I come home, I don't want to have. I've done enough time. I'm sure. Yeah, I'm sure, especially with Jason Love.

Yeah, right. It's like, wait. That's why you wait. little bit. But no, it's not, it doesn't like change it. It's just, you get into this mode where you're in the porn industry and stuff and you, it's just much more of like a regular thing you talk about. Like, I think it's so funny that guys like walk around the set with their dicks, like, stroking them. But it's all professional. It really is. Because they have to keep it, you know? But they're just talking like, like, like, you're just talking about like, how is your barbecue this weekend or how is,

How's your mom? No, I'm going to take some cord on a car. Yeah, yeah. I had the best situation where it was like... Give me some way. I was doing a photo shoot with a very, very professional, good male performer. We were doing a photo shoot where I had to have a dick like this and do it. And they would be repose and we'd get all like this and I'd have slobbery or whatever.

And then we'd stop. They'd say, hold on. And then we'd go back and you'd be like, so when my wife was doing this. This is what I want. But it was not like a, just like we were continuing the conversation like this. And it was like nothing. It was, and it was about the most silly things. So you're married to a civilian.

These guys you work with are any of them married to women? So are they civilian or are they in the industry? Most they are married or with people. There are a number of people who are married with kids and stuff who are in the industry. Most times they're not. Guys. Yeah. But guys most times are with somebody who has been in the industry.

or that's what I mean. Yeah. I'm wondering if a lady would feel about that. But there are women in the industry definitely who have men that who are civilian men. Yeah, but what about the other way? I think I know. I'm wondering about ladies. That's a little bit different.

Yeah, I'll bet. Because I'm trying to think if there's any like real civilian like who hasn't even done like only fans work or it's harder to find. Do you have any of your girlfriends who would be like, I'd let my husband do it if he wanted to. Probably not. Not that much. No. No. Yeah, it's a little bit different.

Do you also not get to hang out with girlfriends like you used to because their husbands are like, she is, uh-uh, can't go get to get your ass in it is. Don't rope you into some video. I know. That's funny. You know, maybe some of my older girlfriends, not ones like really in Hollywood or anything that I've, you know, probably childhood of girlfriends. Although I have to say, I've gotten the most amazing support for some people that I never

expected. Like who? Who's been the most, like there's no way in hell I'd ever bet a buck that person would support me. Oh my gosh. Well, some childhood friends that I thought were just would never be, you know, or any of this. And are like, you're empowering and we're so like behind you. And it's just really nice to hear. So I, people say, oh, do people go against you or do you lose support?

And sure, there are those situations of like super religious people or like, but I had more support than I ever expected to have. And that's, that was really, that was really a heartening situation. Give me a most embarrassing moment during shooting for you that you're comfortable sharing. For me, most embarrassing moment. I do remember I was on a scene one time. It wasn't embarrassing for me necessarily, but the other girl had cleaned out too much. What happens if you clean out too much? Things start leaking.

Just dripping now? Oh, no, it just starts. shot. And so it wasn't me. The shit you learned about. Yes. And I felt awful because everyone was like, yeah. I guess because it starts getting here. Is the director like, hey, uh, or do you have to say something?

I actually, it was a, it was a multiple person seen. So I wasn't with her at the moment. It was like behind me. I heard it. But I literally heard it. But, um, but no. Like they just said, yeah, it's cut and clean up and everything. There has to be an embarrassing moment.

That's really anything because you're doing these serious roles and stuff. You know what I mean? You're not anytime you ever trip and fall or. Oh, I constantly tripping fall. I'm the worst. And they made me wear these high heels. No, not naked necessarily. But and I always wear these heels and I'm just like awful.

But I'm trying to think there has to be really something very funny. One time, oh, during the filming during the pandemic, we were in a penthouse in L.A. It was really cool because during that time, they said, well, if we can't film, we're going to rent out a penthouse and we'll just film everything there for however long we need to. And we'll, we had to test every single morning. Oh, Jesus. Even if you weren't working. Yeah, for COVID. Yes. So that was the nuttyest time that we actually got this.

In that moment, COVID's more concerning than STD's AIDS or any of that. I know. It was crazy. I mean, we're testing more for that then. I know. So, like, looking back on that, it was amazing that we got. such a big project out in that period of time with so much hands-on, you know, fluids and everything. So, oh, it was when somehow the fire alarm kept going off.

And the manager had, or the building had to come up and, like, fix it. And I remember I was, like, literally just naked, like, practicing, like, my lines in the walking. And then he just didn't even, like, he just walked. Like, it was not. Nothing, yeah. Okay. let me ask you this um gosh what how much longer do you think you would physically perform that's an interesting question because it is a very physical thing it's not just oh i want to have sex you

have to perform um and no offense when i say this to any of us like i'm 53 now my knees aren't what they were you know what i mean yeah yeah but you know what i feel good and i want to do more projects I think what I really want to do in the future too is merge the genres in some way in like a mainstream kind of way where there can be like you have the scripts and stuff and you have sex. Maybe not full on crazy sex, but like say you're watching a show like any of these shows that you see on Netflix, let's just see all of it. You know, I mean, they're almost there anyway. Yeah, I mean, they really are. Yeah. Euphoria and things like this today are pretty wild.

Yeah. So if you actually just take it all the way and like have this whole new thing. So I would be, I'd be comfortable foring that for like long, long time. When it comes to like, you know, the scene you're going to do and the location and where they say this is going to be at a park or this is going to be in a bed today, do you get to decide what you want to do or how does that work? I mean, for the most part, I approve like the scripts and everything. My situation is different just because, you know, I came in how I did. And then I'm also the brand ambassador. And I work with just the one company for them, you know, all this time. And so, yeah, I definitely, that's part of my contracts and stuff to be able to choose my talent that I work with. They suggest and they say, oh, this person's newer and they're great. Let's try them out.

Or, you know, we would want to like Caden who writes the scripts, she will suggest, you know, we want to do this and this will be the setup. So I see it that way. But, you know, it sometimes, oh, God, I remember one time, this isn't really embarrassing, but it goes back to that in a way. It's kind of funny because this scene actually won Best Boy Girl scene at Avian. And it was about, it was called Higher Power. And it was about a sex addicts anonymous meeting on Christmas. And I was trying to get the sex addicts to succumb to.

me after the meeting. And I did. Like I convinced him on my, my domineering ways, my mistress ways, I was going to get him. So the only thing they had on set were folding chairs, a concrete floor, and a donut set up for like coffee and donuts because it was supposed to be like a meeting. These are the only things we could have sex on. Yes. Yes. That's what I'm wondering about. Yeah. Yeah. So the first, it starts off at the first of the scene where he was amazing. He was really strong too. He was throwing me around and doing all sorts of stuff. He threw me at the coffee table and we sat on the donuts and there was coffee all over him. And I was like, oh my God, we have to go through this whole scene. And you didn't like to really stop because you want the flow to keep going.

And so he just go, just go. And so he like, in my head's coffee on my whatever. And so he like ripped my shirt off and the buttons flew everywhere and it was crazy. And then we went over to the chair. he literally picked up a chair and was fucking me in the chair. Well, like the chair was under you, like you're sitting in it and he's holding the chair? Yeah, he was crazy. Holy shit. And we ended up breaking the chair in the middle. Like it was bent, like a folding chair.

And they were, I can't believe they didn't sell that a knee bay or something. And then it was the floor. And so that was concrete. Concrete. And so, and but it was a wild scene. But then afterwards we forgot or we weren't thinking about it in the moment's time. We had to film all the dialogue afterwards because they will. do that a lot of times.

Uh-uh. You go pound town first and then we're going to act about it. Then you shower and get made up all over again. No. Yeah. Why are we doing that? Because sometimes the guys have to do it quicker at the beginning. Just get in there and get going.

Yeah. We don't always do that. I mean, there's long days where we do it at the end. But yeah. So we forgot though at the end. All my buttons were popped. Oh, yeah. He had, he had, everything was.

So it was my. director of Caden. There's a fucking wardrobe off camera going, God damn it. It was, and he ripped the button. No. You know, I only got one shirt. I know. It's actually my director Caden had that thread and needle.

She was like, it was so funny. And then they had to go get from wardrobe a match a matching outfit for him. But it worked at the end. They did it. Oh, my God. What do you think's next for you? Do you want to get into producing? or behind the camera?

I have written and directed a couple scenes for Vixen, which were really good. It was fun to do. So, yeah, I would like to do more of that. I definitely like the performing and I like the writing of it, but I like the, you know, performing in front of the camera, probably most. But I am also, I, you know, writing my next book that's coming up. So I, so that's exciting. and also getting into, you know, adapting my TV show from my memoir.

And that's coming up, it's going, we're really far into that. Good for you. Yeah. And I work with an amazing partner too. All right. Two final questions here. What are your nose? My nose.

What are your absolute nose? You know what's funny? I don't have that many nose. Like no blood. Is that a thing? Oh, yeah. We can't have blood. We can't have blood.

No one can do any of that anyway. Not at our studio. Okay. I mean, you go to some other like, you know, ones that. don't have a lot of rules, maybe, you know. But at us, we can't have any blood. We can't even have urine. You can only have squirt.

Is that right? Yeah. But. Have you ever, do you have a no? Have you ever had to be like, I'm not doing that? I haven't had to, really. Wow. Except, you know, just little things.

Like, I don't like this, you know, a certain way or whatever, but not like a hard no on anything. Unless we were going into some BDSM stuff. And I haven't done that as much. Thank you so much. Thank you for coming on here. talking to me and being open and honest about it. My last question is advice you're given to 16-year-old making court.

You know what? Don't try to please other people and smile when you're not wanting to. You know, just don't be more true to who you are. But I just think she wouldn't believe me. She wouldn't believe me. And that everything was going to be okay. Like everything that you experience in your life, whether it's good or bad along the way, it gives you your story.

and I wouldn't be able to write my story now without all of that. I just give her a hug. That's great. Thank you. Thank you. Again, one more time. Plug everything you'd like right there. Just everything Maitland Ward, except, oh, my TikTok is Maitland Talks because people talks to you, KS, because people have stolen my name many times.

I believe it. And so, yeah, and rated X my book and deeper.com you can see and all of that. All right. Thank you so much. Thank you. As always, Ryan Sickler, on all your social media. We'll talk to you all next week. Hey, y'all.

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