Jenna Jameson - yes, THAT Jenna Jameson (the porn star) - just got baptized and is publicly sharing her faith journey. She’s calling herself “the woman at the well” and that… might be a bit much but she’s using her huge social media platform to spread her story and tell people they are not irredeemable.
“After decades of being known for my body and sin, getting baptized and helping others find Jesus too.”
That’s bold. That’s real. That’s what happens when someone encounters Christ.
What do you think? Does this give you hope for people in your life who seem “too far gone”?
The baptism happened back in September actually, but she just went public with it this past week. She’s been posting about faith since September without making a big announcement - just quiet posts about finding peace at 51.
Her rep told the New York Post that she wants people to know “no one is beyond redemption.” She’s calling herself loud and proud about following Jesus now. The woman at the well comparison is interesting because in John 4, that woman had five husbands and was living with someone she wasn’t married to. Jesus didn’t condemn her - he revealed himself as the Messiah to her first, and she became the first evangelist to her whole town. Many Samaritans believed because of her testimony.
Before any of us go throwing stones, Jenna’s had a difficult life.
Her mom died of cancer when she was 2, she’s battled addiction for years, she’s been through multiple relationships including converting to Judaism in 2015 and a recent divorce. She has three kids. She’s been sober for several years now and says sobriety and faith are the most important things to her.
The fact that she’s using her massive platform to tell people they’re not irredeemable - that’s powerful.
She’s not the first person from that industry to find Christ and speak out.
Brittni De La Mora (performed as Jenna Presley) left porn in 2012 after reading Revelation 2:20-22 on a plane to film a scene. She said the Holy Spirit told her “this isn’t the life I have for you” and she quit that day. Brittni was named one of Maxim’s top 12 female performers in 2010 and did over 250 films. She battled heroin and cocaine addiction.
Now she’s married to a pastor and they run Love Always Ministries together, going to porn conventions to hand out Bibles and share the gospel. She appeared on The View in 2013 to talk about her conversion. The Christian Post article mentioned that Brittni actually placed second in Jenna Jameson’s “American Sex Star” reality show back in the day.
Both of them are proof that God doesn’t waste anyone’s past.
Brittni told Fox News that her porn is still online because she signed away her rights in contracts, but she uses that reality to minister to others considering the industry. These women know the darkness firsthand and they’re not afraid to speak truth about what Jesus did for them.
I’ll admit that my instinct was to think “better late than never” but I’m working on that.
She’s not sugarcoating her past or her reputation. She posted a video mouthing “switching sides” with the caption “Crack the Bible…you won’t regret it.”
The pushback came quick apparently. She posted that her spiritual walk “has caused a lot of opinions from people to be aired” and said she’s being public about it specifically because there are people who want to know Christ but fear judgment. She wrote: “I am unafraid and will continue to show people that the broken are the most important to him.”
The ones who are angrily yelling at her for her past are not following His word any better than she was in her past.
I want to believe this is genuine, but I can’t help wondering if she’s found a new audience to monetize. When someone’s entire career has been built on whatever gets attention, it’s hard not to question whether this is just another pivot to where the engagement and money is right now.
My two cents here, everyone’s so quick to call her a grifter, but nobody’s considering that maybe she genuinely encountered Christ and her life was transformed. That’s what the Gospel does.
If the church starts gatekeeping redemption based on someone’s past or questioning motives, we’ve completely missed the point of grace. She’s reaching an audience that most pastors will never reach, people in the adult industry who think they’re beyond saving. That has value regardless of what critics say.
I wonder if this is like what happened with Josh McDowell, who set out to disprove Christianity but ended up becoming one of its strongest defenders?
When I was in college ministry, we had a young woman who worked as an exotic dancer come to faith. The transformation was real but it took her three years to fully leave that life because of financial obligations and contracts she’d signed.
That specific Biblical parallel suggests she’s actually studying Scripture, not just claiming a surface-level conversion. Someone who’s experienced the emptiness of worldly success at its extreme might have deeper spiritual hunger than those of us who’ve lived more conventional lives.
Paul was murdering Christians before his conversion. Jesus said he came for the sick, not the healthy. The thief on the cross got saved in his final moments.
I don’t think we get to decide who’s too far gone. Scripture says His mercy is new every morning.
Thankful for her testimony. God be praised and continue Your work in her life. Interesting point my devotional scripture was from John 4:14a which states “whosover drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst”. And I am celebrating her salvation just as God says in His word, that they celebrate in heaven when someone repents and comes to the Lord
I’ll be honest, when I first heard about her conversion, that cynical voice in my head whispered ‘career move.’ But then I remembered how the Pharisees said the same thing about the sinful woman who washed Jesus’ feet with her tears, and He defended her anyway.
So who am I to judge what God is doing in her heart?
I’ll be honest, when someone steps out of decades of darkness into the light of Christ and uses their platform to point others to Him, we should celebrate that. Every soul that comes home matters.
