Altar Ego SMUT
Crystal Diregorio, a minister in an Upstate New York church —and a former porn star—talks through her journey of leaving glamour and her pain behind.
By Divya Murthy : Photography by Sam Lee As a teenager, Crystal DiGregorio threw herself into typical high school activities: she was on the cheer team at Oswego High School, she made an appearance on her class’s honor roll, she enjoyed going out with her friends and she loved being outdoors. Yet there was something hiding under the surface DiGregorio hadn’t quite dealt with yet — something she wouldn’t deal with until more than a decade later. E v e n t u a l l y , DiGregorio would find her way by becoming a church minister determined to help struggling people discover hope and this would help her to find herself. But this wouldn’t occur until after she battled through her own tumultuous journey, one that included being in the limelight as a porn star. DiGregorio lost her father when she was 13, and soon after that, was
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