Dawn Schiller - The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John Holmes

In this archive show, Dawn Schiller joins Ed Opperman to talk about her book, The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John Holmes. A story of abuse, drugs, porn, murder and survival. It would have been so easy to give up. But she did something harder. She took a bad situation and, over time, turned it around.Painstakingly honest, this chilling  memoir reveals how a teenager became immersed in the bizarre life of  legendary porn star John Holmes. Starting with a childhood that moulded  her perfectly to fall for the seduction of “the king of porn,” this  autobiography recounts the perilous road that Dawn Schiller  travelled—from drugs and addiction to beatings, arrests, forced  prostitution, and being sold to the drug underworld. After living  through the horrific Wonderland murders of 1981, she entered protective  custody, ran from the FBI, and turned in John Holmes to the police. This  is the true story of a young girl’s harrowing escape from one of the  most infamous public figures, her struggle to survive, and her recovery  from unthinkable abuse.Website and book (a proportion of the price goes to empowering teenagers) can be bought here Recorded circa 2014








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