Australia’s most high-profile escort has announced she is “hanging up the stilettos” for good in favour of her “traditional and conservative” roots in a bid to reclaim her life.
Samantha X launched her very successful career as an escort after ditching her job as a magazine journalist over a decade ago and hasn’t looked back – until now.
In an exclusive interview with Stellar magazine, the late-forties Sydneysider revealed that she was going to ditch her famous pseudonym and embrace her real name, Amanda Goff.
This bold move also comes with a striking shake up of her current way of life, with Amanda instead choosing to reclaim her “very traditional and conservative” identity.
“It makes total sense why I created the character Samantha. From an early age, I could dissociate and compartmentalise part of my life,” she told Stellar.
“Creating Samantha was a way of dealing with certain trauma in my life, Samantha was a strong, powerful character, and Amanda was and is a bit of an introvert – very traditional and conservative.
“Before going to work as Samantha, I would literally say ‘Showtime’. I felt invincible.”
Amanda understands her switch between her two personalities as a manifestation of her bipolar diagnosis.
“I was diagnosed with bipolar II disorder. I was so relieved that there is a name for my madness,” she said.
“At the time, I had no issues going public despite the shock from friends and family.
“It was like I couldn’t understand their concerns. I was closed off to it. I was on some kind of high, which now I understand is mania.”
Amanda says her bipolar unlocked years of confusion over her actions and behaviour as Samantha X, her high-profile escorting alter ego.
“Now the fog has started to clear, I am ashamed of some of my choices, especially about going public,” she revealed.
“I don’t recognise the woman who did that and it’s mortifying for me. I am not blaming my bipolar or saying it was all down to my bipolar at all.
“But would I have made those choices if I was diagnosed and medicated? Most likely I wouldn’t have been so public about it.”
Despite the life-changing move to reclaim her original identity as Amanda Goff, she added that she “owes a lot” to Samantha X and is still an advocate of the adult industry.
“Samantha saved me. I owe a lot to her,” she said.
“I know she helped lots of people and I’m still a big advocate of the adult industry. But I’m doing so much work on myself now that I don’t need Samantha anymore.
“Her once strong character is fading and it’s time to start a new chapter as Amanda. That’s who I am and that’s who I want to be.”
Read Amanda Goff’s full interview in Stellar, available now in The Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Herald Sun and The Sunday Mail
Originally published as High profile escort Samantha X makes huge announcement
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