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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Last Days of August''}} | {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Last Days of August''}} | ||
'''''The Last Days of August''''' is a podcast. It contains seven episodes that are approximately 30 minutes each.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jan/11/the-last-days-of-august-review-ames-jon-ronson-podcast-porn-industry The Last Days of August review – unsettling tale of a porn star's demise]</ref> | '''''The Last Days of August''''' is a podcast. | ||
The series is three-and-a-half hours long.<ref name=Jezebel/> | |||
It contains seven episodes that are approximately 30 minutes each.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jan/11/the-last-days-of-august-review-ames-jon-ronson-podcast-porn-industry The Last Days of August review – unsettling tale of a porn star's demise]</ref> | |||
Ronson and Misitzis make the argument that her last scene, which she shot with Markus Dupree six weeks before her suicide and was never publicly released, was the real trigger for her suicide with perhaps "the icing on the cake" being the bullying she received on Twitter.<ref name=NYPost>[https://nypost.com/2019/01/01/porn-star-august-ames-suicide-was-not-what-it-seemed/ Porn star August Ames’ suicide may be more than what it seemed]</ref> | Ronson and Misitzis make the argument that her last scene, which she shot with Markus Dupree six weeks before her suicide and was never publicly released, was the real trigger for her suicide with perhaps "the icing on the cake" being the bullying she received on Twitter.<ref name=NYPost>[https://nypost.com/2019/01/01/porn-star-august-ames-suicide-was-not-what-it-seemed/ Porn star August Ames’ suicide may be more than what it seemed]</ref> | ||
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In those messages, Ames alleged that Dupree dragged her around, chocked her with her panties, slammed her head down on a table, and was too rough even though the scene didn’t call for it.<ref name=Jezebel/> | In those text messages, Ames alleged that Dupree dragged her around, chocked her with her panties, slammed her head down on a table, and was too rough even though the scene didn’t call for it.<ref name=Jezebel/> | ||
Ames also claimed she spat in Dupree's face when he pulled her down for a kiss because she was enraged, but Misitzis says Ames only did that after Dupree asked her to.<ref name=Jezebel/> | |||
Ames said she didn't say "no" or "stop" because she "froze" in "panic mode" during the scene.<ref name=Jezebel/> | |||
She also said that she "just wanted it to be over" and that she "wanted to die" in those text messages.<ref name=Jezebel/> | |||