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Guest Speaker Series: Jennie Ketcham
Former “Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew” participant and Pasadena Recovery Center alum, Jennie Ketcham, returned to PRC to speak to the current residents about her experience with addiction on Wednesday, August 8, 2012. Ketcham, a former adult film star who went by the name Penny Flame, spoke about her inspiring transformation from porn star to the hostess, student, blogger and author that she is today.
In a brief interview, Jennie credits PRC’s role in her recovery:
“Pasadena Recovery Center was like ground zero for my experience in recovery and for the new life that I get to live today… it’s like the core of my earth”
Additionally, she sings the praises of PRC counselor Shelly Sprague:
“She had such solid boundaries and was really established in her sobriety and knew who she was and could identify herself very solidly in her program and that really helped me”
You can watch much of Jennie’s brutally honest talk – which was packed with residents, alumni, and staff – in the videos below:
Part 1
Part 2
PRC Alum Jennie Ketcham Interview On The Daily Beast
The Daily Beast has an excellent interview with Pasadena Recovery Center alum, Jennie Ketcham. Here’s the first question and answer:
Was there a specific moment during shooting Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew that it clicked for you that it was real and you embraced being a sex addict? How idd you know that you had to quit porn as a result?
I don’t know that I’ll ever “embrace” being a sex addict. I think that’s probably one of the most difficult things about addiction; I must reaffirm that I am an addict all the time. No matter how much I know it’s true, there will come a day where I think, well… maybe not. The day I knew I had to quit porn was when we started talking about checking out of the Pasadena Recovery Center. I’d been ensconced in the wonderfully safe rehab bubble — no phone, no Internet, no rent, no closet filled with vibrators or talk of real life. Once we started discussing what we would need to do “on the outside” to stay sober, it was a little bit of a white light moment. I remember thinking, I don’t know what I’m going to do, but I know I can’t do porn anymore.
Read the entire Daily Beast interview.
Jennie Ketcham will be speaking at the Pasadena Recovery Center on Wednesday, August 8, 2012.
SAVE THE DATE: Former PRC Alum Returning To Discuss Addiction & Recovery
The Pasadena Recovery Center is pleased to announce that PRC alum, Jennie Ketcham, will be speaking about her new memoir, “I Am Jennie,” in the Community Room at 6pm on Wednesday, August 8th. The event is open to current residents, alumni and staff.
The book details how Jennie transformed herself from an addict and porn star into a modern day blogger and author. After appearing on “Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew” and “Sober House,” Ketcham quit the adult film business, pursued a healthier lifestyle, and started a personal blog – Becoming Jennie – where she wrote about her redemption and recovery. And this month she released her first book.
We look forward to a great event on August 8th!
Pasadena Recovery Center Celebrity Alum Jennie Ketcham Releases Memoir
The Toledo Free Press has an excellent article on Pasadena Recovery Center alum Jennie Ketcham — who previously worked as a porn star under the name Penny Flame. After appearing on “Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew” and “Sober House,” Ketcham quit the adult film business, pursued a healthier lifestyle, and started a personal blog – Becoming Jennie – where she wrote about her redemption and recovery. She released her memoir, I Am Jennie, this month. From The Free Press:
In an effort to explain, chronicle and aid her transition, she began to write about her life in a blog named “Becoming Jennie.” It was there — among the thousands of words, thoughts, reflections and emotions she shared with her loyal readers — that Ketcham’s unique and fascinating voice as a writer began to come to the forefront.
“I had always kept a blog but never kept an honest one about my feelings,” Ketcham said in an interview with Toledo Free Press Star. “I was also so out of touch with those feelings, and the voice with which to describe them and experience them, I felt safe behind the gossamer veil that is Internet blogging. But once word got out into the porn world that I’d left, the blog’s popularity boomed and the rest is history.”
During the past few years, her site has become an exhaustive and emotional look at the many changes in Ketcham’s life. The world of adult films is, indeed, in her past. She now works as a hostess at a Pan-Asian restaurant. She’s attending college. And — most importantly — she’s becoming happy with who she is.
As Ketcham has grown, so too have her writing skills. Now, all facets of her personal evolution come to the forefront with the release of “I Am Jennie,” a new memoir released July 10.
Ketcham’s book is available at Amazon and other book stores.
