Former Boy Meets World actress turned adult film star Maitland Ward has lashed out at Billie Eilish following the singer’s comments about the pornography industry and the way exposure to adult content at an early age affected her. Ward, who started her own porn career in 2019, accused Eilish’s parents of “abuse” in an interview with TMZ on Tuesday, claiming it’s not porn’s fault Eilish was damaged but her guardians who should have protected her.
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- Ward believes Eilish’s parents should have been monitoring her online activities. “Why was she watching violent porn at age 11? Who was watching over her? Like does she have parental figures in her life?” Ward ranted. “She should be blaming her parents. That’s abuse. A child should not be watching porn ever at that age.”
- To be fair, kids are exposed to a lot of things on the internet. Technological advancements have meant that everything we could ever want (and even the stuff we don’t want) is at our fingertips in the flash of a second. However, that means sometimes children are exposed to things they really shouldn’t be seeing. After all, it’s impossible to monitor them every second of the day, right?
- Eilish feels extremely scarred by what she saw as a child. Earlier this month, she told Howard Stern that porn “destroyed her brain” after she formed an addiction to adult content when she was still in middle school. “As a woman, I think porn is a disgrace,” she said. “I used to watch a lot of porn, to be honest. I think it really destroyed my brain and I feel incredibly devastated that I was exposed to so much porn… it got to a point where I couldn’t watch anything else unless it was violent, I didn’t think it was attractive.”
- Ward is furious that Eilish’s comments could have a negative effect on the porn industry. Calling Eilish’s interview “very detrimental,” Ward insisted that the singer it wrong. “Porn isn’t something that’s supposed to be sex education for people,” she explained. “It’s entertainment for adults and that’s what we do. Also, I think she’s too young to make that kind of assessment about porn, sex and everything.”
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