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How a gay-for-pay adult video star ended up a Baptist preacher

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From 2006 to 2012, Rocco Reed was a prolific gay-for-pay performer in the adult video industry, appearing in over 1,000 scenes for studios like Men.com.

But these days, Reed — a 39-year-old whose birth name is Joshua Broome — has become a preacher at the Good News Baptist Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.Broome recently told The New York Post that he began appearing in adult videos after moving to Los Angeles, California because some female friends said it would help him become a movie star.

From age 23 to age 29, he shot dozens of scenes each month. But away from the camera, he felt depressed.“I believed the lie that if I made money I would be happy,” Broome said. “I made well over a million dollars.

I traveled everywhere I wanted to go. I had all the sex I could have ever imagined. But once I had it all, my life fell apart, because it amplified the sorrow and emptiness I always felt inside….

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