1. Linda Lovelace made a stag film in which she had sex with a dog
Actually, there are two, separate two dog films. . . .
2. Linda Lovelace’s first interview was in Screw magazine
Linda Lovelace’s most notorious interview was in Screw; her first interview was in Women’s Wear Daily, published September 1, 1972.
3. She made her first allegations of abuse in Ordeal
She first mentioned her treatment at the hands of Chuck Traynor in her second book, The Intimate Diary of Linda Lovelace, in 1974—six years before Ordeal was released.
4. No one has ever backed up her allegations of abuse
Several people have mentioned the fact that Linda would show up to the set of Deep Throat bruised, most notably DT director Gerard Damiano. The definitive quote on the topic was given to. . . (wait for it) . . . culture warrior Bill O’Reilly. In an interview with Damiano published in the Boston Phoenix newspaper of April 30, 1974, Damiano tells BillO:
“I thought she might progress when she got rid of her husband, Chuck Traynor, who then went over to manage Marilyn Chambers. That man was a nothing. He had no personality, no charm, no brains. He was just a user of people and he used Linda. He gave her nothing and abused her. He was very brutal with her. She was supposed to do what she did but she wasn't supposed to enjoy it, and if she enjoyed it he beat her up. Many times she'd come on the set and be completely black and blue.”
5. Linda Lovelace had a radical double mastectomy
Linda had a liver transplant. After her health began to fail in the mid ’80s, she went to a doctor who, while testing her for possible cancer as a result of silicone injection breast enlargement, discovered that her liver was failing due to Hepatitis C, the result of a tainted blood transplant in 1970.
6. Linda Lovelace became a born-again Christian
Linda was Catholic and, by the time I met her, didn’t seem to be particularly religious. Her Deep Throat co-star Harry Reems, however, did become a born-again Christian.
7. Linda Lovelace advocated censorship
There’s no evidence in any of the transcripts I’ve read of her testimony before the Meese Commission or Minneapolis City Council in the ’80s to back this up. She protested showings of Deep Throat, but only because it directly involved her. She told me several times she was against censorship, she enjoyed a good dirty joke and, one night when we were looking for a movie to rent, her choice was the anti-censorship flick South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut. She was a big South Park fan.
8. Linda Lovelace died in a car crash
Linda was hospitalized for three weeks following her 2002 car crash during which she sustained massive injuries, but died when she was taken off life support by her family.
