Where Are They Now: Vadim Black – Part One

Vadim Black is one of the most infamous and divisive gay porn stars of recent memory. In our exclusive, Vadim sat down for a self-effacing interview. What does he have to say for himself now? A lot. A whole lot.

Even with 2018 still being in its infant stage, 2015 doesn’t sound that long ago. But in gay porn, a few years can be a lifetime.

For the couple of years Vadim Black was industry and in the sixty-plus scenes he filmed mostly for Men.com and Broke Straight Boys, he generated a lifetime of headlines and controversy.

The Vadim Black of today sounds very different than that angry man of a few years ago. So, what has changed? More importantly, what does he have to say for himself now about the guy he was then?

The Sword: The infamous MTV Tape. No one came out looking good after that. Especially you. How much a role did editing and the production crew play in making sure they were the only winners?

Vadim Black: Everything, everything that the viewers saw on the MTV segments was all a big setup for ratings and clicks. I, unfortunately, had no idea until the episode aired.

What did you think of the final product when you saw it?

I really was disgusted when I saw the final product, I could not believe that people make a living by pressuring young people into saying things they don’t want and then twisting them into something even worse…

The sad part is that I didn’t want to say half of anything they wanted me to say or do. But they just would not leave me alone until I did. They even put hidden mic and cameras in places I didn’t know to try to get me to say bad things. I was disappointed I caved to the pressure that resulted in people believing what I was doing and saying was the real me.

Your social media at the time had racist and homophobic overtones. How much of that reflected who you were at time V. who you thought you needed to be to create a buzz?

First of all, I never have been nor am I HOMOPHOBIC, OR RACIST. That doesn’t mean I didn’t say things I now regret. They came from anger and frustration. I was too young to realize people can, and will be judged, by some tweet fired off because I was pissed off at something and expressed it the wrong way on the wrong place.

When bad things were said on my social media, I was a young man, age 18. I never had a family, or a good life, and add to that a I naturally am defensive personality. I was angry, lost, and upset. So when people started attacking me, and harassing me on social media, including several blogs, and led to spreading false information about me. I did what any 18-year-old kid that’s naive would do, which go on the defense.

How different is the person you are now from the person you were then?

I am very different now. I have grown up tremendously. I went to school got a degree, have a job, have a beautiful fiancée, and am living in Florida.

I realized that life is short, and there is no reason to be angry, fight, hate, or be defensive, I figured out that everyone deserves to have their say in everything whether it is right or wrong. I try to live my life and do the right thing, and stay out of people’s issues and problems because there is no reason to get in fights or battles with anyone.

People will always throw stones at you, you have to get up and keep walking no matter what because you only have one life to live so live your life, and let others live theirs.

It’s easy to see that Vadim’s scene in “Fuck You I’m Infamous” from NakedSword Originals was at the time, perfect casting.

[Watch JD Phoenix & Vadim Black in “Fuck You I’m Infamous”]

 
 
Next week, the second part of our interview, we’ll pick where we left off today and look ahead to the new project Vadim is working on now. No, it’s not a return porn. But it’s nothing you would expct either.

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