"My father was an alcoholic, and my parents split up when I was very young, and my mother moved us to California when I was 12 years old. Her middle-American childhood was unhappy. "Steubenville to me is like a black and white picture - that's what it represents to me. Then her mood suddenly darkens: "My father's there." Does she have any relationship with him? "No," she says softly. Asked if she gets back there much, she finds the notion so hilarious she can barely get out a "no" between laughs. Dad was a steelworker, Mom a housewife and Nora Louise was the second of four daughters. That story begins in Steubenville, Ohio - the town that gave the world Dean Martin - where Nora Louise was born in 1968.
Lords talks with considerable ease and candor about her past, but there is never the quavering-voice confession of the rich, wounded star, never the obnoxious manner of the self-helped celebrity who has seen the light of righteousness and demands that you see it too.Īs John Waters says, "Her past is always gonna be there, people are always going to bring it up, but so what? It's a good story." "Now I'm pretty much a grown woman, and I've really started to figure out who I am and what I want. "My X-rated mess happened when I was 15, 16, 17 years old I was a teenager," she says. Is this pretty, demure young woman with the deep green eyes and the Veronica Lake swath of blond hair, reclining in the lobby of the swank Omni Shoreham Hotel, the same person who did all those naughty things so many years ago? Not really, Lords contends. With Children" and other TV shows, and a feature role in John Waters's 1990 musical comedy "Cry-Baby." She's recently completed a cameo take in the Baltimore director's upcoming film "Serial Mom." She's also had guest shots on "MacGyver," "Married. The last time Lords did nudity on-screen was in the lead role in a 1988 remake of the Roger Corman sci-fi cult film "Not of This Earth." "They asked me to take my top off - I thought that was a step up," she laughs. The actress has carved out a hard-earned legitimate career, appearing tonight, for example, in the ABC mini-series "Stephen King's The Tommyknockers," one of the network's May Sweeps Events. She left the business in 1986, began taking acting lessons and cleaned up her lifestyle. This did not sit well with the FBI though Lords herself was never charged with any crime, her films were declared child pornography and pulled from the shelves. Lords, 25, began her show business career in the adult film world, starring in titles such as "New Wave Hookers" and "Beverly Hills Copulator." She appeared in more than 100 videos and got hooked on drugs, all before she turned 18. But Nora Louise Kuzma is, after all, more widely known as Traci Lords. Why should there be anything ironic about this question? She is, after all, only talking about an interview. "Where do you want to do it?" asks Nora Louise Kuzma without a hint of irony.
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