But in the late 1990s, Lovelace was seen at porn conventions signing copies of Deep Throat. This was said to be an act of desperation, as she had divorced Marchiano in 1996 and was in need of money.
Still, she insisted in a 1997 interview: “I look in the mirror and I look the happiest I’ve ever looked in my entire life. I’m not ashamed of my past or sad about it. And what people might think of me, well, that’s not real. I look in the mirror and I know that I’ve survived.”