[working in porn being less traumatic than being a waitress] In sex work in general, like being on camera or something like that, like that was the only kind of day that I could get through, like I couldn't get through a day working as a waitress. Nobody in porn's a registered sex offender, nobody! And like, but like dudes that work in restaurants are.

[Kim Kardashian and other media stars influencing her at 7] What they would show on TV and what they would show in magazines as being good and like it just made me want to be that more than anything in the world, like I just wanted to be like hot and just dumb and like just, you know, like a bimbo.

I always thought that if my dad lived (He died of cancer when she was 8) that I would have just been normal," she said. "I would have just gone to college like a normal f****** person and done just some random stupid job and have been some stupid normal person. Like, I wouldn't be doing all this if my dad was still around. I wouldn't be Chloe Cherry if my dad was still around.