Porn Star Mom: My Life With August Ames

In 2017, 23-year old adult entertainment industry performer August Ames tragically took her own life. In the aftermath of her death, the media pointed the blame in all directions: social justice warriors who took issue with August’s decision to not perform with a certain male performer; her husband, Kevin; a performer named Markus Dupree, who roughed August up during a film shooting; even her own family.

For the first time since her death, August’s mother Hilary opens up in a tell-all memoir about her life with and without her beloved daughter, better known to the family by her real name, Mercedes Grabowski. Detailing Hilary’s childhood leading up to the birth of her sons and daughter, readers will get an inside look at the life of a military mom working hard to raise her three children in between multiple tours of duty in Afghanistan, as a member of the Canadian armed forces.

PORN STAR MOM is an unflinching look at mental health, sexual abuse, alcoholism, suicide, and the dangers of pornography, told with raw honesty as only someone who has lived through it all could.