The Flashback Interview: Tyffany Million

Johnny Caps sits down with Tyffany Million for a wide-ranging conversation that traces her path from GLOW’s Tiffany Mellon to award-winning adult performer, radio host, licensed bounty hunter, and inventor. He learns why Wife, Mom, Bounty Hunter’s move to WOW Presents Plus matters to her, how bounty hunting is “95% waiting,” and why she’ll only return to adult projects with real scripts and production value. Tyffany shares set memories from Demon Wind to Caged Fury, the story behind her “Shake Awake” alarm patent, and plans to reenter wrestling in a ringside managerial role due to health limits. She also teases three books covering her early life, adult career, and bail/bounty years, underscoring the discipline and boundary-setting that kept her grounded through every reinvention.

It was recently announced that the 2006 reality series Wife, Mom, Bounty Hunter would be coming to the streaming service WOW Presents Plus. Why am I bringing that up? Because the star of that show is my newest interview subject, Tyffany Million.

If you’re wondering who she is, to put it mildly, she’s an incredibly diverse talent. In the 1980s, she wrestled as Tiffany Mellon on GLOW: Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling. From there, she began performing in both mainstream and adult movies before transitioning to radio, inventing a unique silent alarm along the way.

She then made the transition to bounty hunter, a feat documented on the aforementioned Wife, Mom, Bounty Hunter. Now, in 2025, she’s returning to acting, wrestling, and bounty hunting, but she was able to spare some time to talk to me about her travels through multiple worlds, a journey that’s still ongoing.

Just as a heads-up, there will be some NSFW talk in this article. Be careful where you read this.

Say hello to Tyffany Million!

Tyffany: Hello there.

Johnny: Hi, Tyffany. How are you?

Tyffany: I’m well, thank you.

Johnny: Thank you, too. Thank you for taking the time out of your schedule to speak to me.

Tyffany: Oh, my pleasure.

Johnny: Alright. I have my questions ready to go, so let’s just jump in.

Tyffany Million: Okay.

Johnny: When you were informed that Wife, Mom, Bounty Hunter was coming to streaming, how did you react?

Tyffany: I was very excited when I heard that Wife, Mom, Bounty Hunter was going to be streamed because the show had been essentially been shelved for a very long time. It had initially aired on the WE Network in 2007 or 2008, and then after a few years, I was told by some friends who saw it – although I didn’t see it – that it aired again in 2010.

It has essentially been buried for over 15 years, and it’s very exciting because now a whole new generation will be introduced to me and my career and the show. It’s just a very exciting thing for me, and the re-release of the show has already led to some wonderful happenings for me that are in development.

Johnny Caps: That’s wonderful to hear. During your time as a bounty hunter, did any of your collars recognize you from your time as either an actress or a wrestler?

Tyffany: They actually did not, and I think that’s because when I would go out to hunt, I wouldn’t really wear makeup, except for maybe mascara. I always had my hair back, and I had gained some weight over the years ever since I had left acting and modeling in the mid-90s. I gained a substantial amount of weight, and I’m sure that changed the way that my face looked.

I was not, and that was a good thing because it probably would’ve interfered with my ability to do my job as a bounty hunter and bail bondsman to the best of my ability. The answer is no surprisingly enough.

Johnny: Alright. Besides your own show, what are your favorite entertainments based around bounty hunting?

Tyffany Million: You know, there’s not really a whole lot out there. Of course there was Dog The Bounty Hunter, and I knew Dog. We had spoken on the phone a number of times, and I used to give him a lot of shit because he doesn’t use guns on his show.

He uses just pepper spray, and the reason for that is because he’s a convicted felon, and he’s not allowed to own or operate a firearm. I would always give him shit every time he would call me. I’ve watched his show a number of times, and it didn’t impress me very much.

Every time he and his wife would have some kind of a spat and threaten to divorce, he would call me, and ask if my husband and I were still together (Tyffany and Johnny laugh). I would say, “Yes, we are. We’re still together, Duane.” Then after we would hang up, Beth would somehow find out I had been on the phone with him, and I would get a text message or an email from her saying, “Stay away from my husband, you tramp!” I would message back and say, “Don’t flatter yourself, honey. I wouldn’t date your husband if he was the last man on Earth”. (Laughing)

He was proposing to me a new TV show that he wanted to do that would feature three teams from the bounty hunting reality TV world. One would be my team, one would be his team, and one would be the team from the show Family Bonds. Family Bonds was another bounty hunting TV show that came out around the same time.

The idea for the show was that there would be a case that would given to all three teams. We would have to go out and pursue, and whoever arrested the fugitive first was the winning team and would get some kind of prize.

I thought, “Wow, that’s a great idea for a show. I really like that, all three of us from the world of bounty hunting reality TV shows pitted against each other in competition”, but guess what? Beth stepped in and put the kibosh on it because she was very jealous of me, and that was apparent from her text messages and e-mails to me any time Duane would contact me, so the show never happened because of her.

Johnny Caps: I’m sorry to hear that.

Tyffany: Eh, oh well.

Johnny: Well, what advice would you give to someone looking to enter the field of bounty hunting?

Tyffany: Number one, don’t quite your day job because you’re not going to make a lot of money. You only get paid when you arrest and book the fugitive into jail, and every bond company is a little different. For most bond companies, the bounty hunters get the initial 10 percent that was paid by the cosigner for the bond, and then you have your expenses, which can be pretty high depending on how long it takes for you to track down, arrest, and transport the fugitive.

My bond company was different. We charged a flat $500 a day for our services as bounty hunters, which included 8 hours, and we included a mileage charge (for actual miles), plus any additional charges, which included parking fees, or the like. There were also fees for CIs, Confidential Informants, that would be added to the bill, and this was all in the initial bail contract the cosigner and the arrestee would sign.

They had to pay it, and if they didn’t pay it, then we would take their collateral and sell it, and get our money.

Definitely don’t quit your day job. If you think you’re going to make a bunch of money, you are wrong.

Number two: It’s very boring. Bounty hunting is about 95 percent sitting around waiting for something to happen, doing surveillance, doing intel. You know, what you see on TV is a glorified version of the reality.

The real takedown is usually uneventful. Most of the time, they come willingly once they know they’ve been made and located. They come willingly, so what you see on TV, with all the excitement of having to kick in doors and break windows?

That’s rare.

It gets very hot in the surveillance vehicle because you can’t just leave the air conditioning running in the vehicle. Number one, because the noise attracts attention. Most vehicles have to be moving for the A/C to blow cold, so if your car is sitting stationary for a long period of time, the A/C’s not going to blow cold.

For a female like me, you have to pee all the time (Tyffany and Johnny laugh). You’re making accommodations for that, and it’s not like you can just take off and go use the toilet somewhere and come back, because then you’re going to blow your cover. Your vehicle’s going to get made as a surveillance vehicle, and you’ll need to bring another surveillance vehicle next time.

What I would usually do is I would bring a Tupperware bowl with a lid, put it on the floor of my vehicle, pee in the bowl, put the lid on it, and stash it somewhere in the car. Later on, when I would get home or get where I was going, I would dump it out and rinse out the bowl for the next time. I mean, that’s just the reality of the job.

Again, it’s not the exciting thing that people think it is. It can be very boring, very tedious, very uncomfortable.

Those are three points that, if you’re thinking about it, you might want to think again because it’s not what you think it is at all.

Johnny Caps: Alright. Transitioning to a different aspect of your work, on your social media, you recently shared a photo of a patent you received for a silent alarm band, so what was the inspiration behind that invention?

(Laughing) A real life funny story. At the time, I was married to my first husband, who was an engineering student. He was going to junior college at the time, getting his two years in so he could transfer to UCLA.

What happened was he would set the alarm five days a week, and that stupid alarm would go off at, like, 3:30 or 4:00 in the morning every day. It would wake me up, and once I am shocked awake by a piercing sound, I cannot fall back asleep. This went on day after day.

Five days a week, that alarm would go off so he could get up early and be in class by a certain time.

One morning, I got so frustrated that I sat on the edge of the bed and said, “Damn. I wish somebody would invent an alarm clock that would just wake up one person selectively and let everyone else sleep,” and then I thought, “Hmm, interesting. Maybe I could do that,” so I just started sketching out some ideas as to how I could invent or create something like that.

I then consulted with a patent attorney who connected me with a schematics artist, and the schematics artist and I spent some time together just essentially mapping out the electronics and the internals, and how the device would work. Once we came up with the finalized version that we felt I was looking to design, they did the final drawings, the attorney put the packet together, and he filed it for me with the U.S Patent Office.

I got my patent, and then I investigated making a prototype, but right around that time, a lot of horrible things were happening in my life. It was a time in my life that was very dark. My father had recently passed away.

He lived in Montana, and I was the executor of his estate, so I was having to fly back and forth to Montana, and then his ex-wife decided she was going to make a claim against the estate to which she had no right, but it didn’t stop her from trying.

I was battling her in court, and then Ingo and I divorced. I’m going through the divorce, and I’m trying to move because, of course, we couldn’t live together anymore, and then at the same time, my oldest daughter, who is now in her mid-30s, was going through some trauma which I can’t disclose for privacy reasons. I was going through this whirlwind of bad things happening, and it sapped my finances, so I was unable to build the prototype.

I just let the patent sit for a number of years and then, eventually, it expired. About a year after the patent expired, I was contacted by a company who wanted to manufacture the device, and then they realized that the patent was expired, and their attitude was pretty much, “Oh, we don’t need you now. You know, the patent is expired. We can make it without you”.

I did see my invention one time. They must have produced it because I saw it in one of those mail-order catalogs. Someone sent it to me, and they actually called it the ‘Shake Awake Alarm Clock,’ which was exactly what called my invention.

You know those mail order catalogs? There was one called Harriet Carter, one called Miles Kimball, one called Walter Drake…I think they’re all the same company, but they tend to cater to retired folks and elderly folks. Most of the products that they offer in their catalogs kind of cater to the older crowd.

I did see it, so I’m assuming it was produced and, of course, they didn’t have to pay me a cent because my patent was expired. That’s the last I heard and, of course, the Apple Watch came along, and all these things, so the invention is now obsolete because there’s more modern technology that accomplishes the same thing, but at the time, it was ahead of its’ time. It was a novel idea.

Johnny: I see. I hope that my bringing it up wasn’t too painful or anything.

Tyffany: Oh, no. Not at all. It’s pretty much impossible to offend me or make me feel bad, or cause me ill feelings.

I’m very level-headed and logical about things.

Johnny Caps: Alright. Transitioning to your entertainment work, you made quite an impression as Tiffany Mellon in GLOW: Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling. Three-and-a-half decades after it went off the air, the show remains popular on sites like YouTube, and continues to gain new audiences, so why do you think GLOW has continued to thrive after all these years?

Tyffany Million: Well, I think it’s experienced a resurgence for two reasons.

First of all, Netflix did a remake of the show, which was not a remake because the ‘remake’ had very little to do with the original show. I refused to watch it. I’ve never seen it.

I have no desire to whatsoever. Netflix did not consult with us girls. They did not invite us to be a part of the show, so I feel that GLOW ripped us off the first time around, and then Netflix ripped us off with their remake.

I think that’s one reason.

The second reason is because our fanbase is now at that age where they are waxing nostalgic. You know, you get to a certain age, probably your mid-40s or early 50s, and you start waxing nostalgic about your childhood, and our fanbase has reached that age. You know, they’re married.

Their kids are almost grown. They’ve accomplished all these things in their lives. They’re buying the flashy sportscars, and losing their hair, and they’re longing for things from their childhood, anything that can reconnect them with their youth.

There have been a number of GLOW-related events and programs and shows over the past several decades that have helped keep it alive, and there’s a lot of online groups and websites dedicated to GLOW. Our fans never forgot us, and what’s funny is I find that a large percentage of our fans are gay men. An awful lot of them are.

Maybe it’s the flashy makeup, or the costumes, or the big hair, and the whole 80s thing going that happens to attract gay men, and god bless ’em. (Laughing).

Johnny: So how did your time in GLOW help you in your later career as an actress?

Tyffany: Well, GLOW allowed me to show my comedic side, which I had always enjoyed because I had never done much, if any, comedy before GLOW. I think it showcased my ability to do comedy. If I do say so myself, I think a lot of the sketches and things I did with GLOW showcased a natural comedic timing that I have that I didn’t realize I had until I was in GLOW.

That was all natural. That wasn’t coached.

The character development was all mine. When they originally assigned me my character, they told me that I was going to be this Park Avenue socialite. I had no idea what that was at all.

I knew that our characters were replacements for Tina and Ashley, the Beverly Hills Girls from seasons 1 and 2, so I knew that Tyffany was a rich girl.

At the time, we didn’t have the Internet, so I couldn’t do research on the Internet about what a New York socialite was, so I just had to kind of ask around if anybody knew what a socialite was, the whole New York scene, or what Tiffany would be. I just took what little information I gleaned, and wove it into this character who was a spoiled, rich little daddy’s girl.

She was lighthearted and carefree. She’s spending daddy’s money, and doesn’t have a care in the world because daddy will pay for it. That’s how it developed.

I think I literally just pulled it out of my ass, if you want the truth. (Tyffany and Johnny laugh)

Johnny Caps: Well, I think you did a great job with it.

Tyffany: Thank you.

Johnny: Although you’re uncredited, you were an extra in the 1988 Blake Edwards movie Sunset. I’ve interviewed several performers who have worked for him, talents like Marian Green and DeeDee Rescher, and they spoke well of him, so what were your feelings on working with him?

Tyffany: I didn’t really get to interact with Blake. I mean, of course he was on the set, and I observed. I actually had more interaction with Malcolm McDowell from A Clockwork Orange, which was always one of my favorite kind-of-strange movies to watch.

I was really honored to be able to interact with him, to talk with him and to work with him.

It gave me a chance to meet Bruce Willis, whom I found to be a pompous asshole. He was really full of himself on the set, and then I got to meet James Garner and work with him. I grew up watching him, and he was a very friendly, very humble guy.

I don’t remember who else was in the movie, but when I was on the set for the few days that I was working on it, those were the people I got to meet and interact with.

The one thing that stands out about working on that shoot was that…When they provide craft service for the talent and the crew on any shoot, there’s always at least two, if not three, setups. You have a setup for the crew. You have a setup for the extras and background talent, and the ‘low people’ on the totem pole, and then you have a setup for the stars.

I remember one of the things that they served us on the set of Sunset was green Jello salad. (Laughing) I thought, “That is, like, the grossest, most undesirable thing to eat,” and I’ll never forget it for some reason. I remember the lunch meat was kind of greyish, like it had been sitting out.

I don’t know about these days, but back in those days, when you did background work, you were treated like a dog. You were treated like a dog mostly by the A.D, the assistant director, who, on most sets, was in charge of the background talent. They were always talking down to you, and yelling at you.

Yeah, you were treated like dog shit, and the food was always bad (Tyffany and Johnny laugh), but that’s how I got my start with background work, and Sunset, of course, wasn’t the only one I did. I worked on many, many shoots where I’m uncredited.

Johnny: Alright. To transition to a role where you are credited, in 1990, you played Crazy Daisy in the movie Caged Fury. I’ve asked this of several interview subjects over the years, and now I’d like to ask it of you as well: What do you think the appeal of women-in-prison movies is?

Tyffany: You know, I saw that question in your questions list, and that’s one I had to think about to really try to put it into words. I think there is a misogynistic tone to women-in-prison movies that’s attractive to a certain category of men. Something about women being restrained and abused, and caged and limited, does have sort of a misogynistic bent to it, doesn’t it?

There is a segment of the male population that’s turned on by that. It’s definitely a sexual thing.

Johnny Caps: Alright. Staying with Caged Fury, that was executive-produced by Menahem Golan, whose production company, 21st Century Film Corporation, was the studio behind the film. I’ve interviewed quite a few talents who worked with Golan when he was head of Cannon Films in the 1980s, and opinions of him are mixed, to say the least, so what are your thoughts on how he made movies?

Tyffany: I didn’t have any interaction with him. But I have distinct memories of the director, Bill Milling. He mainly focused his attention on that shoot on the star, whose name was Roxanna Michaels.

She was obviously a method-trained actress because I was observing her while we were shooting the scenes, and she would stay in character and keep herself emotionally on the edge to be able to perform the role that she did. I remember seeing him really feed into that with her.

You know, in between takes, she would sit in the cell and cry, and go on and on about “Why am I locked up here? This isn’t right. This isn’t fair. I shouldn’t be here,” but that’s method acting. Method acting is where you essentially stay in character 24 hours a day when you’re shooting a role, and he would go into the cell and put his arms around her, and pat her on the back and stroke her hair, and say things like, “It’s going to be okay. You’re going to be okay,” and she would cry and get all emotional. That was my observation of him.

Compared to other directors I’d worked with, he was very easy to work with. Unlike Matt Cimber, the director of GLOW, Bill wasn’t your typical mean, loudmouth, condescending personality. He had more of a gentle way about him that was refreshing, compared to other shoots I had been on.

There’s a very interesting side note about Caged Fury. In the scene where I’m jumping around and hanging on the bars, in fact, where they introduce my character in the movie, there is a woman I walk over to, and I put my head on her shoulder. She’s half-black, half-white, kind of a light-skinned black girl, and I put my head on her shoulder, and her line is, “She thinks this is all on TV”.

That woman’s name is Patricia Matthews, and on the set of Caged Fury, she and I became very good friends, and we ended up becoming friends in real life. Here’s the interesting thing about her. Her sister’s name, who’s now deceased, rest in peace, is Denise Matthews, better known as Vanity from Vanity 6, the band that Prince created that had their huge hit in the 80s called Nasty Girl.

Patricia and I became very good friends, and we used to go over to her sister’s place, Denise Matthews, a.k.a Vanity from Vanity 6. She lived in Sherman Oaks, and I got to hang out with her a lot because of that, and so it was awesome for me to be able to meet an 80s icon whom I grew up watching on MTV, and to be sitting in her room, chatting with her, because her sister was my good friend.

That’s just a little side note about that movie.

Johnny: That’s a wonderful story.

Tyffany Million: Isn’t it, though?

Johnny: Oh, it is, and I can definitely relate to that because of all the interviews I do with talents whose works I grew up with, and many of them have become dear friends of mine. I can definitely relate to that.

Tyffany: Yeah. I’ve had a lot of serendipitous moments like that, and many of them will be in my upcoming books that I’m working on right now. There’s going to be three books because there’s so much material on my life.

I mean, it’s overwhelming.

We’re going to do three editions, one that focuses on my early life and GLOW, one on my adult career, and one on my bounty hunting career and post-adult life. A lot of these stories, which are very serendipitous, will be included in my book, and there’s quite a few of them that involve celebrities that everybody would know.

Johnny: Alright. Staying with your acting work, you played two different demons in early 90s horror movies, a Beautiful Demon in Demon Wind and a Nun Demon in Spirits. Of the two movies, which did you prefer working on?

Tyffany Million: Well, I definitely preferred the one I worked on with Erik Estrada, Spirits, although something very wonderful came out of Demon Wind. This will also be in my book.

When we shot Demon Wind, we were shooting it in either January or February of 1989, and we were shooting in Thousand Oaks, California, way out in the hills. It was the coldest recorded night in Los Angeles history for, like, the last 50 years. I was in, if you watch the movie, this very skimpy costume in which I was topless.

The costume pretty much consisted of just a corset with some gauze. I was standing off-camera, waiting to do my part, my lines, and I was shivering. It was SO cold, oh, my gosh.

There was this guy standing next to me who I assumed was a member of the film crew. I was standing there off camera, waiting to deliver my lines and do my scene, and he saw that I was shivering. He came up to me and said, “Hey, can I maybe bring you something from the craft table? Maybe a cup of coffee?” and I said, “Oh, my gosh. I would love a hot chocolate.”

He disappears, and he comes back with a large cup of hot chocolate for me.

As soon as he handed me the hot chocolate, I stuck my fingers in it. He said, “Aren’t you going to drink it?” I said “No, I didn’t want it to drink. I wanted it to warm my fingers because I’m freezing cold!,” and he thought that was hilarious. (Tyffany and Johnny laugh).

Then the director would say, “Okay, Sandra. It’s your turn. You’re up.” I would be in front of the camera doing my scene. We would do I don’t know how many takes, and every time the director would yell cut, I would move off-camera. I would be standing there with this guy, we would shoot the shit some more, and he would bring me another hot chocolate, which I would inevitably stick my fingers in.

Flash-forward a few years, and I was going on an audition for Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go To College. I walk in the casting director’s office, and I no sooner walk in than he says, “The part is yours.” I kind of shook my head. I was like, “I haven’t even auditioned. I haven’t said a word.” I literally walked in, and he said, “The part is yours.” I said, “I’m sorry. I don’t understand,” and he goes, “You don’t recognize me, do you?” I said, “I’m sorry, sir. No, I don’t.” He said, “A year ago? Thousand Oaks? Fingers in the hot chocolate?”

Oh, my god! My eyes got so big. This guy that I’d met on the set of Demon Wind was now the casting director for Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go To College.

He said that I got the part because he remembered me ever since that day because I didn’t have an attitude. I didn’t think I was too good just because I was a starlet. He said, “You were just so friendly and so humble. We had a good time, and you made me laugh, sticking your fingers in the hot chocolate.” He said, “The part is yours. You don’t even have to audition.” The casting director for ‘Ghoulies 3: Ghoulies Go to College’ was Michael Cutler, so that must have been who I met.

That same day, right after I left the casting office, I also met Kane Hodder, who played Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th movies. He wrote his name and phone number on a scrap of paper for me, and I had that little scrap of paper for many years.

Johnny: That’s a wonderful story. I’ve interviewed quite a few talents who have worked behind the scenes on movies, many of them Oscar winners, and I love hearing their stories. Returning to you, though, you appeared in the wrestling-themed movie American Angels: Baptism Of Blood.

Based on your own wrestling work, what do you think that movie got right about wrestling, and what do you think it got wrong?

Tyffany Million: You know, honestly, Johnny, I haven’t seen the whole movie. I’ve just seen my part, so I really don’t know a whole lot about it. I just went in there that day.

They told me, “Here are your lines. Here’s what’s going on in that scene”. I just went in, did my scene, and went home, so I’ve never actually seen the whole movie (laughing).

Johnny: Fair enough. We’ll transition into your adult entertainment work, starting with this: You spent some time as a stripper in the 1980s, so what were your favorite songs to dance to in the 1980s, and what was the dance move, or moves, that drove your audiences wild?

Tyffany: If there’s one thing I’m known for in adult films, as well as dancing, it’s that I’m extremely flexible. I think every joint in my body is double-jointed. I can almost tie myself up in knots, and I know that when I was stripping, as well as doing adult films, my audience seemed to get kick out of that, how flexible I was, so a lot of my moves as a stripper involved me doing some contortionist-type moves.

As far as music, I have two favorite songs that I always love to dance to. One of them is Black Water by The Doobie Brothers, and the other is Long, Cool Woman In A Black Dress by The Hollies. Those are two of my favorites.

I’m just envisioning your dancing now (laughing), if I may be so bold, because even though I am too young to have seen that, I just know from your work in adult film that you really did a good job with your dancing.

Tyffany Million: Yeah, I could dance my ass off, that’s for sure. The place where I stripped in San Francisco was called The Mitchell Brothers O’Farrell Theatre, and it’s world-famous. It’s been there since the sixties, and a lot of major stars have worked there, including Marilyn Chambers.

The brothers who owned it, Artie and Jim Mitchell, were very famous because Jim murdered Artie.

A movie was made about that story starring Charlie Sheen and his brother, Emilio Estevez called ‘Rated X.’ It was a big story in the 90s where Jim Mitchell murdered his brother and business partner Artie. We were all shocked because Jim was the quiet, reserved one, and Artie was the wild and crazy one who was fucking all the girls backstage, and doing drugs. He was just a very colorful, animated character.

Jim went to prison for a number of years, and I don’t remember the details of his release, but he was released early, and I saw him again because I had worked there off-and-on several times prior to my time in adult films. I would work there for a couple of years, and then I would go do something else, and then I would fly into town and work there on the weekends.

That’s actually how porn star Jill Kelly got into the biz. It’s kind of a long story, but she ended up becoming my partner because at the Mitchell Brothers’, they didn’t just have stripping. They had live girl-girl sex shows, and I believe, when I was working there in the 80s, there were three different themed rooms where there were lesbian sex shows.

Over the years, the theater has added several more show rooms where they have five or six girl-girl-themed rooms now.

Jill Kelly was an employee of my first daughter’s father, and so he introduced me to her, and she showed interest in wanting to work there, The Mitchell Brothers Theatre in San Francisco, so she and I started going up there from Southern California on the weekends, and performing these live girl-girl sex shows at the Mitchell Brothers’ O’Farrell Theatre. I got into adult films, and she started hanging around me, and expressed interest in wanting to get into it, so I got her into it at the AVN convention in 1993. I actually brought her as my date.

Even though my husband was with me, my second date was Jill Kelly. Her real name is Adrianne Moore, and I introduced her to everybody at that convention, and that’s how she got in the biz. I also introduced her to Cal Jammer, real name Randy Potts, whom she ended up marrying shortly after they met.

The marriage went sour after just a few months. He was very upset about the breakup and went to her house to confront her about the impending divorce. When she refused to open the door to talk to him, he got very irate.

He then shot himself in the head in front of her house. She lived in Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles, and I was on the phone with her when he did that. I was on the phone with her the whole time.

She ended up moving in with me and my husband, Richie Razor, into our spare bedroom because she was traumatized and couldn’t go back to that house. She lived with us for a while, and then ended up going out on her own. Of course, she became a big star, and had her own production company, and she and I are still friends to this day.

Johnny: That’s quite a story, and I actually do know from my conversations with another friend and former interview subject of mine, Ona Zee, of the mental health crisis in adult films. Ona told me that she wants to work on a book about helping adult performers and their mental health, and I think that’s a very noble thing. Of course, mental health awareness is a very noble thing in general.

Tyffany: Yeah. You said Ona Zee, right?

Johnny: Yep.

Tyffany Million: Ona and I are still friends to this day, too. We did some great work together in Michael Ninn’s film Shock. We were co-stars in that film.

Michael Ninn is well-known for his multi award-winning films Latex, Shock, Sex and Sex, Part 2: Fate. Those groundbreaking films are considered some of the most successful in adult film history, and they’ve certainly won the most awards, over 30 in total for all four films. I starred in all four.

You know, I’ve never had any kind of mental health issues over what I did. I certainly empathize with those that did. I mean, from my experience, I saw quite a lot of it, more so the females than the males.

Of course, there were some mental health issues with the male performers who have committed suicide, like Jon Dough and Cal Jammer, but I never experienced that.

You know, for me, it was a job. It was a business. There was a line between Sandra and Tyffany.

I was able to flip back-and-forth between them quite easily. I could turn Tyffany on, go to work, do what I needed to do, do it to the best of my ability, and then when I left the set, I went home, switched back into Sandra, and I was a mom and a wife.

I didn’t, for the most part, partake in the “lifestyle” of the industry. I wasn’t into going to parties or that type of thing. I just treated it like a job, like the business that it was, and I created my own company, Immaculate Video Conceptions, where I produced seven of my own movies.

Never content to be just talent, I’ve got to run the show (Tyffany and Johnny laugh). I produced my own movies.

With the mental health aspect, I think it’s more about who these people were before they came to the industry because the industry attracts a large number of emotionally unstable people by the very nature of what it is, and it’s sad. You do see a lot of it. It wasn’t my experience, but I did see a lot of it.

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Johnny: Well, on a more upbeat note, pardon the transition, you showed great acting skills in your adult films, so which of those movies provided you the most challenges, and the most rewards, as an actress?

Tyffany: Well, there’s a number of them that I’m quite proud of, and thank you for noticing that, by the way. I appreciate that.

I think the reason that I shot to the top as quickly as I did, what got me to the top from the moment I entered the industry, was the fact that I was from the Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling. I came from the mainstream world, and that was pretty unique, but what kept me there was the fact that I could act, that I always put my all into my sex scenes, that if my call time in the morning was 7:00, I showed up at 6:45.

I was never high. I was never drunk. I knew my lines.

I was very friendly with everybody on the set. I never had an attitude, very much a team player. I know very well that it takes a team to make a product.

Just because I’m the star doesn’t put me above everybody else. I’m an integral part of the team, just like the grip is, just like the makeup artist is, just like the director is. It takes all of us to create a project.

As far as my acting, I’m most proud of the work that I did in all four of the Michael Ninn films. The character that I played in Sex, Parts 1 and 2, was Ms. Million. They called her by my actual porn name, although I forget what first name it was, but I played this evil modeling agent opposite Jon Dough.

We played the heads of this modeling agency that had a dark bent to it.

I’m also very proud of the work I did in New Wave Hookers III and Climax 2000, Parts 1 and 2. In Climax 2000, Parts 1 and 2, I played an aging porn star who was threatened by this young porn ingenue. She knew her days were numbered because she was aging, and she was quite jealous of this ingenue, played by Kaitlyn Ashley, who was fresh in the business.

That was a very enjoyable role to play, and when I look back on those movies now, I say, “Damn, I acted my ass off!” (laughing), and you know what’s funny about adult films? It’s that, in general, when the public watches adult films, they fast-forward through the dialogue scenes to get to the sex scenes. All of us, the talent?

We do the exact opposite. When we watch our work, we watch our dialogue scenes, and we fast-forward through the sex scenes (Tyffany and Johnny laugh). It’s the complete opposite.

Johnny: Well, staying with that, you appeared in several adult film parodies, like the Cheers parody Smeers and The Beaverly Hillbillies, an obvious parody of The Beverly Hillbillies. When adult film parodies underwent a revival in the 00s, that didn’t extend to the titles, most of which were titled Not (Fill in the title of the parody subject) or This Ain’t (Fill in the title of the parody subject), as opposed to the pun title parodies of the 80s and 90s. Why do you think the creativity went out of adult parody titles?

Tyffany Million: Oh, I know exactly why it did, because of all the lawsuits. There were several lawsuits against porn companies for using titles that were too close to the names of the originals. I know that the most publicized case was Splatman.

There was a huge lawsuit from Warner Brothers against the producers of Splatman, not only because of the name, but the costume for Splatman. Cal Jammer played Splatman, and I was in that film as well.

It was because of the lawsuits, so they learned their lesson. We do a parody, and we use a name and likeness that’s too close to that of the original? We’re going to get sued, so they couldn’t do it anymore.

When I produced movies for my company, Immaculate Video Conceptions, since changed to Immaculate Visual Conceptions to be more modern, I produced a number of parodies myself because they were my favorites.

I did one called Jailhouse Cock. I did one called Generally Horny Hospital, which involved one of the actual stars of General Hospital, the soap opera. Kin Shriner, who played Scotty Baldwin, and I became friends.

I can’t recall how, but I contacted him about doing a cameo in my parody, Generally Horny Hospital, and he almost did it.

He and I hung out, and he went to the set when I was shooting. It was a two-or-three day shoot, and when he was on the set, he gave us a lot of advice and insider information. The guy who was the sound engineer for the actual soap opera, General Hospital, was also MY sound engineer for Generally Horny Hospital.

I had their actual sound engineer. He did it as a moonlight thing to make some money on the side and, I think, just to be involved with a porn. That’s a little-known fact about my movie.

I did another parody called The XXX Files: Lust In Space. That was a parody that was a compilation of all the biggest sci-fi movies and TV shows of the last 20 years, so there’s a lot of a little bit of everything in sci-fi movies and TV shows. It’s a brilliant little movie, and I played a non-sex role in my movie, as opposed to all my other ones I starred in.

In this particular one, I did a non-sex role, playing a character called Spoda, which was, of course, a takeoff of Yoda.

That year, I won Best Non-Sex Performance at AVN for my role in that movie, and nobody even believes it’s me when they watch it because the character of Spoda is a midget. I had to walk around the set on my knees, with tennis shoes tied to my knees, and then they put a pillow under my lab coat on my back to make me look like a hunchback. I had prosthetic makeup on, and my hair was all ratted out and sprayed gray with this space-age design in it.

I’ve got to say I’m probably more proud of that role than any other one I’ve ever done. If you’ve never seen it, you’ve got to watch it. It’s on my social media.

I can forward it to you. Ron Jeremy and I had all of our dialogue scenes together in that movie, and he and I played off each other so well. I mean, we would’ve made a great stand-up comedy team, the two of us.

We really bounced off each other well. The delivery and the timing is brilliant (laughing).

Of course, Ron and I were friends off set as well. I have a lot of stories about him, but yeah, parodies were my favorite. I think that was my first opportunity to really showcase my ability to do comedy.

I mean, it started with GLOW, and then when I did the parodies, it showcased my skills even further, and I didn’t even realize it. I didn’t realize I had a talent for performing comedy, so I really enjoyed those. They were the most fun.

Johnny: That’s wonderful to hear. A dear friend, and previous interview subject, of mine is Julie Winchester, also known as Gina Carrera. She also has experience in both adult films and wrestling, so did you ever work with her?

Tyffany: I have not, no. She and I are friends on social media, but I’ve never actually met her.

Johnny: Oh. Well, I can tell you she’s a very sweet person. We became friends after I interviewed her in 2018, and we still talk every so often.

She’s still wrestling to this day as well, so perhaps you’ll grapple one day, but we’ll get to a question about that soon enough.

First, you’re gradually making your way back into adult entertainment, starting with an OnlyFans, so what’s led you to return there after all these years?

Tyffany Million: Well, what’s funny, Johnny, is that I’m actually returning to all three of my major careers at the same time, and I never thought this would happen. I’m returning to adult films, I’m returning to wrestling, and I’m returning to bounty hunting, all at the same time.

It’s kind of crazy how it’s happening for me, but I never intended to leave the adult film industry to begin with. I was describing earlier how I went through a time in my life when my father suddenly passed away, and I had to deal with his ex-wife and the estate and all the travel, and then my husband and I were divorcing. I had to deal with all the emotions from that, and my daughter was going through this horrible thing.

That’s why I went on hiatus from the industry in September of 1994. Because all this bad stuff was happening, I just said, “You know, I need some me time. I need to deal with this stuff”. It was my intention to get through it and come back to the industry, and then after I had been on hiatus for a year, maybe a year-and-a-half, I spoke to my mainstream agent, Sherri Spillane, who passed away last year.

She was my agent for several decades.

Sherri was the ex-wife of the famous writer Mickey Spillane. There’s a lot of history there. She hung out with The Rat Pack in the 50s and 60s.

She was very much a member of that group with Frank Sinatra and Joey Bishop and Sammy Davis Jr.. She showed me some fabulous photos from those days.

After I’d been on hiatus from the adult industry for about a year to a year-and-a-half, Sherri got me this job doing radio, and so I thought, “Yeah, I’ll try something different. We’ll see how this works out. Why not?”, and I ended up doing very, very well. I had the voice for it, and I just did very well. I did radio for about four years, and then I got pregnant with my second daughter in 2000, and got married shortly thereafter, so that’s why it all ended.

Of course, six years later, I got my TV show, Wife, Mom, Bounty Hunter, and my husband and I were married 23 years. We divorced a year ago June, and about two months later, it suddenly occurred to me. I thought, “Wait a minute. I’m single now. I can go back!” (laughing).

It dawned on me one day because it had been so long, and my mind wasn’t geared that way anymore.

I thought, “Well, I’ll start off with an OnlyFans page”, because so many people had said, “How come you don’t have an OnlyFans?”. Well, because I was married for 23 years to a normal guy who was an electrical contractor, and he did bounty hunting with me. We did the TV show together, and we did bail bonds together, but he was mainly a self-employed electrical contractor, a brilliant man.

Of course, I couldn’t do anything in adult for 23 years because he would’ve never put up with it. He never would’ve married me, and he did not know that side of me whatsoever. I mean, he knew that I had been Tyffany Million.

He knew that I had been an adult film actress and all these things, but he never, ever watched one of my movies. He had no interest in looking at photos of me, or hearing the stories, or anything. He loved Sandra.

He didn’t want anything to do with Tyffany, so Tyffany just kind of faded from my memory.

We divorced, and then after two months, all of a sudden one day, it occurred to me. “Oh, my gosh! I can go back!”. I decided to start with an OnlyFans page and put my toes in the water, and then one day I said, “Okay. I’m ready to go for it”.

I announced on social media that I was back.

Johnny: Well, I know you’ve mentioned that you’re going to start after the AVN Awards next year, and I look forward to what’s in store for you.

Tyffany: Well, we’ll see what happens because the re-release of Wife, Mom, Bounty Hunter is definitely going to change things for me. I’ll just have to see what happens between now and then because I am seeking mainstream representation right now as, of course, my old agent Sherri has passed away. I now have to seek new mainstream representation.

Times have changed a lot in the 23 or 24 years since I’ve been gone. Back then, you never could’ve done mainstream and adult simultaneously. I think that that has changed to a large degree, but it’s really going to depend on the advice from my agent, you know?

I really do want to come back and do some adult projects, not a lot.

I am very disgusted, disappointed, and dismayed, 3 Ds, at what the industry has turned into since I was in it, and I will not do the shit that I see out there right now. If I’m going to do a comeback, it’s going to be along the lines of what I used to do, even if I have to self-produce it. It has to have a storyline.

It has to have production values. It has to be more than just some POV clip bullshit that you see on Twitter. That, I will not do.

I’m sorry. but it’s beneath me.

Johnny: Perfectly understandable.

Tyffany: It’s garbage, and I think that it is insulting to fans, and to the audience, what the industry has turned into.

Johnny: Well, to connect adult entertainment and wrestling, were you ever asked to be a part of Rob Black’s XPW, either the late 90s/early 00s version or the current revival version?

Tyffany Million: Well, no, because I pretty much wasn’t in entertainment back then. I was a mother, and married, and very removed from the industry when I was doing radio. I was running around in a whole different circle of people.

I was doing some of the biggest shows around the country, so I wasn’t involved really with any of that. Of course, I got married and had a second baby, and was pretty much just a mom and a wife, aside from doing Wife, Mom, Bounty Hunter

I was running my own bail bonds business, doing bounty hunting, and private investigating for several decades, so no. I mean, I’m sure that if I were still in the industry, I would’ve been asked, for sure.

There was an adult industry boxing event in the mid-90s in which the people who performed were from the industry. I went up against K.C Williams. She was my opponent, and somewhere I have a couple of pictures from that event, but as far as anything having to do with wrestling, boxing, or any of that, that was really the only thing I did after I got into adult.

There was a parody of GLOW called BLOW, which stood for Beautiful Ladies Of Wrestling. It was an adult parody of GLOW, so I starred in that with Summer Knight, but the short answer is no, just because I wasn’t available, or I’m sure I would’ve been asked.

Johnny: Alright. Since you are going to be returning to wrestling as well, knowing that wrestlers can keep going into their 60s and 70s, although you’re not there yet, will you be getting back in the ring, or is this just a managerial role?

Tyffany: Well, it’s mainly in a managerial role, but I will be getting in the ring and pulling some dirty tricks as the heel managers tend to do. I’m looking forward to that because I’ve always been a babyface. I’ve never been a heel, and I think every wrestler wants to be a heel, even if they don’t admit it.

I know that when we were finding our characters when we were first doing GLOW, I was disappointed that they cast me as a babyface. I wanted to be a heel so bad (laughing). Everybody does.

It’s mainly in a managerial role. I will be first managing Natalia Markova, and she’ll be up against Teal Piper, who is, of course, Rowdy Roddy Piper’s daughter, at the first event, and there are several promoters there who want to meet me. I’m sure this will be an ongoing thing, but honestly, at my age, and I’m almost 60 years old, I’ve had some major health problems over the last 15 years or so.

I’ve had some pretty major surgeries, including a major one to my neck and to my spine. I could never take a bump again. I just can’t take bumps…Not only that, but my breast implants won’t allow me to do that (laughing).

It’s mainly as a manager, but again, I’ll be pulling some dirty tricks, and I’m looking forward to that.

Johnny: Cool. Transitioning to a different topic, you’ve appeared at a few autograph conventions over the years for your various endeavors, so what’s been the most rewarding part of attending conventions for you?

Tyffany: I actually have not attended any convention, or autographed anything, since the AVN in 1994. That was the last time I recall going to any sort of convention where I autographed anything.

Johnny: Oh.

Tyfanny: Yeah.

Johnny: My apologies.

Tyffany Million: Oh, no worries. The only time I’ve ever autographed anything since I left the industry was just a few times when fans would recognize me in public, or they would mail me things and send some money to autograph things over the years. A couple of times a month, I would get things in my P.O box from fans who wanted something autographed, and if they included a nice tip, then I would sign them.

If not, I would put in their return envelope and send it back to them (laughing).

Johnny: Well, along those lines, what’s been the most wonderful piece of memorabilia that you’ve signed?

Tyffany Million: Oh, my gosh. Wonderful. You know, recently I had a fan send me a copy of my Hustler Erotic Video Guide that I’m on the cover of.

It’s on my social media, and he originally bought that magazine when it first came out in the early mid-90s. He kept it all these years, and it was in nearly mint, pristine condition, and he’d been waiting to meet me, or to run across me, to have me sign autograph it.

Through a mutual friend, he tracked me down and sent it to me, and he, of course, sent a nice tip because I’m obviously increasing the value, and I’m not going to do that free for anybody. I actually took a video of myself autographing that magazine because I hadn’t seen it in decades, and it was very heartwarming for me that he bought it when it first came out, and he held onto it all these years in hopes that he would meet me, and one day be able to have me sign it.

That meant a lot to me. That was pretty impressive.

Johnny: That’s wonderful to hear. I know I’ve been saying that a lot, but you’ve definitely had a lot of wonderful experiences, and I’m honored that you’re sharing them with me.

To go to my next question, it’s a bit of a long-worded one, so please bear with me.

I’ve lived all my life with autism spectrum disorder, and one aspect of that is an intense focus on a particular subject. For me, it’s the pop culture of the 1980s, which got me through some very dark times in the 90s and 00s, and which played a big part in my social and mental development.

I’ve noticed, though, that the 1980s are still being made fun of 35 years after they ended, while the 1990s have gotten a free pass from being made fun of in the 25 years since they ended.

As you were active in both decades, why do you think the 80s are still more likely to be made fun of than the 90s are?

Tyffany: Well, because there’s so much more to make fun of from the 80s. I mean, everything from the fashion to the hair to the music. We had New Wave.

We had hair metal. The vehicles were not the most attractive. The 90s were more subdued.

I don’t think there was really as much to make fun of from the 90s. The 90s was more the era of grunge, and then towards the last half of the 90s, it turned more into white rappers.

Hip-hop pretty much took over in the late 90s, and there was a surge of white rappers. Vanilla Ice started it in the 90s, but Eminem really took it to another level, and then all these white rappers exploded on the scene.

I think the 80s just had so much more. You had MTV, and I was watching MTV the split-second that it came on the air. I saw the very first video.

I saw (Tyffany imitates the MTV logo riff). I was like, “What the hell is this?”, and they played Video Killed The Radio Star by The Buggles. This was a whole new thing.

“What the heck? A music video? What’s this?”. I was actually watching TV the day MTV first started, so I saw that historic moment.

There just wasn’t as much to make fun of in the 90s because it wasn’t over-the-top like the 80s was. The 80s was extreme and over-the-top.

Johnny: I think maybe that’s what drew me to it in my younger years because the 90s were just really not a good decade for me. I mean, being bullied in elementary, middle, and high school, times of being a bully myself because I thought that’s what you had to do to survive, losing my dad to a heart attack in 1995 when I was 12 years old, time in a mental hospital where I was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder after I snapped from years of bullying, four school transfers in four years…

The 90s was not a good decade for me, and although there are thing I like pop-culturally from the 90s, I can’t look back on the decade with the fondness that so many do. That’s a big reason why I turned to the 1980s, because it symbolized what I wanted for my own life. It symbolized fun, happiness, friendship, and I would eventually get all that, but not until my 30s, but the pop culture of the 1980s played a large part in getting me through all that, and that’s why I love it so much.

Tyffany Million: The 80s were a wonderful decade to grow up in and go to high school. I was in high school from ’80 to ’84, and then I went on to college, and was in college until ’86. They were the Reagan years, and I was living in Northern California during the 80s.

There was really no better place to be. It was awesome, and I really have a lot of fond memories from the 80s. I never would’ve thought there would be a resurgence of 80s fashion, but it did come back, and that’s crazy, and of course it was the decade of GLOW and so many great TV shows.

The 80s was kind of a continuation of what started in the mid-to-late 70s. You had punk rock and the disco era, which I was also a part of. I mean, I was younger, but I went to the roller disco, and I was roller-skating.

I remember going to see Saturday Night Fever when it first came out in the theaters, and I remember going to see it 3 or 4 days in a row because I was so in love with John Travolta.

That’s when Star Wars first came out, and I remember going to the theaters to see Star Wars when it came out. The whole 80s thing really had its’ roots in the punk rock and disco eras of the late 70, and I think that’s what really spawned the whole thing.

Johnny: I can see that. Returning to the matter of wrestling, of all the wrestlers you’ve crossed paths with beyond GLOW, whether they were with WWF/E, WCW, or NWA, who were the nicest, and who were the meanest?

Tyffany: Well, rest in peace, but I do not have fond memories of Hulk Hogan. He was not friendly towards the GLOW Girls. He very much had his nose in the air.

He looked down on us. He made rude comments, but I mean, let’s face it, GLOW is not what I would consider to be real wrestling. It was a campy, character-driven show that was less about wrestling, and more about the characters, so I get it, but STILL, there was no need to be as rude and condescending as he was.

Now, on the other hand, Rowdy Roddy Piper, whom we were just discussing a moment ago, was very friendly towards us, and very supportive. He loved us, so those are the two I have the most clear memories of, Rowdy Roddy and Hulk Hogan.

Johnny: Alright. Staying with wrestling again, WWE is once again using the words “wrestler” and “wrestling” on their programming after the ouster of Vince McMahon, who preferred the terms “Superstar” and “Sports Entertainment” when talking about his wrestling promotion when he was in charge. Which terminology do you prefer to use to describe your grappling activities?

Tyffany: I always like to call things what they are. I mean, people like to say “adult film performer”. No, I’m a porn star.

Let’s call it what it is. I’m not a “sports entertainer”. I’m a wrestler (laughing).

I’m just not into the whole PC thing. Pronouns are nothing more than politically correct bullshit, and I state this on several of my social media accounts where it’s allowed, mainly LinkedIn.

You know, you’re allowed to enter your pronouns, and if you go to my profile on LinkedIn, under pronouns it says “Pronouns are nothing more than politically correct BS”. I grew up in an era where we called things what they were. Political correctness hadn’t happened yet.

My boyfriend is 24, and I’m 59, and I’m constantly going to battle with him over this because he’ll laugh and say, “Oh, that’s not woke. You’re going to get”…What’s the word? What do they call it when the woke crowd takes you down?

Johnny: Canceled?

Tyffany Million: Yes, canceled. “If you say that out loud, you’re going to get canceled”. I say, fuck ’em.

I don’t give a shit. I’m 59 years old. I’ve earned the right to say what I want to say and be who I want to be.

If you don’t like it, there’s the fucking door, bitch (laughing). I’m really outspoken.

To his credit, I think Vince McMahon doing that really helped the WWE, although I’m used to calling them the WWF. I just cannot get past that. I still call them the WWF because that’s what I grew up with.

I think that’s more the secret to the expansion of their audience, and their appeal was that more commercial, watered-down branding. There was a lot of method to his madness, and he was very successful with it.

I don’t think that wrestling would’ve had the broad commercial appeal that it has today if it were not for Vince McMahon’s very shrewd and wise decisions to make a lot of the moves he made, and one of those was calling the wrestlers “sports entertainers” or “Superstars”.

I remember Metallica because I grew up with those guys. Kirk Hammett’s sister Jennifer has been my best friend since I was 15, and so I grew up with Kirk. The night James and Lars showed up, he was still playing with Exodus.

They showed up at a club in San Francisco, where we were all there to see Exodus, to audition Kirk for Metallica.

I remember when Metallica experienced something similar. They fired their old manager, Mark Whittaker, and got a new manager, and the new manager wanted to change their sound to be less thrash-y, and more commercially appealing. I remember the band balking, kind of along the lines of what Vince did, saying, “We’re going to lose thousands of fans if we do this”, and the manager’s response was, “Oh, yes, you will, but you will gain millions”.

He was right. Metallica changed their sound to be more commercially appealing, and they exploded. I think that’s along the lines of what Vince McMahon did.

He was very much for wrestling what Metallica’s new manager was for them. Their manager was credited with helping them develop their more commercial sound, and turning them into the international superstars that they are, and Vince McMahon did that for wrestling, so I’ve got to give him a lot of mad props.

Johnny: Alright. Staying in the matters of the physical, fighters often have nicknames for their arms, hands and feet, hence the trope Meet My Good Friends Lefty and Righty, while adult film stars often have nicknames for their more intimate parts, hence the Robin Williams-named trope I Call Him Mister Happy. Did you ever have nicknames for your body parts in either wrestling or adult film?

Tyffany Million: I did not (laughing). Nope, I did not, and I think that’s something guys are more apt to do than girls. I know that my ex-husband, the one I was married to for 23 years, used to call his penis Russell The Love Muscle (Tyffany and Johnny laugh).

He used to say it in a French accent. He would say, (slipping into a French accent) “Roo-sell, ze love moos-lay”. I think guys are more apt to name their private parts than women are.

Johnny: Alright. To go to my next question, you’ve been a wrestler, an actress in both mainstream and adult entertainment, a bounty hunter, and an inventor, so what talents do you have that you haven’t been able to show off yet, and hope to do so as you return to the public eye?

Tyffany: Well, I’ve also been a producer/director/writer, I’ve been an author, and I’ve been a radio show host, among other things that are more publicly known about me.

I have other talents that I don’t think the fans really care about. I speak French, and I was a spelling bee champion throughout school. I went to the regional finals after winning my high school spelling bee, which I always did.

I went to the regional finals of the Scripps Howard Spelling Bee in 1980. I was in the 8th grade.

I’m a wonderful chef. I can bake really well. I can cook really well.

As a matter of fact, when I was producing movies for my company, Immaculate Video Conceptions, on the first couple of shoots we did, I actually made the lunch, the food for the crew and the cast. Not only that, I was I was producing, directing, co-writing and starring.

I was directing from within the scene. I would be on the set naked with my male co-star, or co-stars, depending on the scene. i would be in whatever position I was in before the cameras would fire up, and I would say, “Alright. Lights? I need you to move over there 20 degrees. Camera? I need you over there. Makeup? I need you over there.” Here I am, naked on a hot set, shouting out directions to everybody. “Alright, everybody. Are we set? Ready? Three, two, one. Action! “Oh, ooh!”

I slid into character, and then, “Cut! Alright, cameras, I need you over here. Lights?”. I mean, I was literally playing every role, and I was also making the food. I look back on it, and I think, “How the fuck did I do that?”.

(Laughing) I just don’t know how I did it.

I’m also an expert sculptor. I’m an artist. I’ve been an artist my whole life.

I draw. I sew. I paint.

I sculpt. I love to write. When I was younger, I wrote a lot of poetry and short stories that I got accolades for.

I have a knack for many things. I’m a kinesthetic learner, so anything that requires touch or feel to learn, I excel at. I do not learn visually.

I don’t learn auditorily. I learn through experience and doing.

I went to college for fashion design. I graduated from the Fashion Institute Of Design and Merchandise in San Francisco in 1986. I mean, I don’t want to brag about myself, but you asked!

I’m a woman of many talents. I also have this thing for trivia. I’ve always been a trivia buff my whole life.

People who know me and interact with me in my everyday life always say, “How the fuck did you know that?”

Something will come up in conversation, and I’ll say, “Oh, yeah. The capitol of Iceland is Reykjavik. It’s spelled this way,” and blah blah blah. Or “did you that in 1940, so-and-so happened”… People are always amazed at the stupid little factoids I know. When I was a kid, I used to go to the library all the time because, of course, we didn’t have the Internet.

I actually had to go to the library, and look up books in a card catalog. That was how we looked them up – no computers!

I was really into trivia, Greek mythology, geography, world history. I would sit there for hours, and just read and draw.

Johnny: Well, I must say, with all the talents you have, I don’t think that’s boasting at all. As the comedian Andrew “Dice” Clay once said, if you’re good and you know it, why hide it?

Tyffany Million: I mean, if people ask, I’ll tell them. Speaking of Andrew “Dice” Clay, he was not the most friendly, either (laughing).

Johnny: Oh, I’m sorry to hear that.

Tyffany: (Laughing) He was not the most friendly person towards me.

Johnny: Alright. Returning to adult films for a question, a hypothetical one: If you could shoot scenes with any mainstream performers from film, television, or music, who would you choose?

Tyffany: To be in an adult film with me?

Johnny: Yeah.

Tyffany: Oh, well, that’s easy. Christina Hendricks, the busty, red-headed star of Mad Men. I think she’s the sexiest bitch on the face of the Earth.

Oh, my god. She just mesmerizes me any time I see her on the screen. Of course, she’s older now, but when they shot Mad Men, there was no hotter woman on the face of the Earth than Christina Hendricks.

Ohh, what a woman! (Laughing)

Johnny: Alright. Where has been the most unexpected place you’ve been recognized as a performer?

Tyffany: Oh, my gosh. Hmm, unexpected.

I was recognized when I met my youngest daughter’s father. I met him at Gold’s Gym, like I met many, many people in my life in the 90’s because I worked out there religiously for many years. I met everybody from the American Gladiators to Gene Simmons to Paul Reiser to Dana Carvey, Sandra Bernhard, …They all worked out there.

I met my youngest daughter’s father there. This was before I got pregnant with her. He invited me to his dad’s house for Thanksgiving dinner, and he was one of eight kids.

He’s the baby, and his best friend had been invited, too. His best friend walked into his dad’s house, and his dad lived in kind of a ghetto. He bought it back in the days when it was a nice neighborhood, and he owned it until the day he died.

During the time he owned the house from the 50’s through the 90’s, that area turned into a major ghetto. I was probably the only white girl within a 10-mile radius. The family is Hispanic.

My youngest daughter’s father is Hispanic. His best friend John walks into the house, and I saw a look on his face, and I know that look. It’s like they see you, and they recognize you, and just for a spilt second, they get this deer-caught-in-the-headlights look in their eyes, and then they try to hide it.

They try to be cool, like, “I don’t know who she is”. They try to play it cool.

The best friend and my daughter’s father, whose name is Chris, disappeared into a back room for a few moments, and then came back out. I didn’t think anything of it, and then later that evening, we went back to my place in Studio City, and I said, “What was that all about?”. He says, “Is there something you’re not telling me?”.

I go, “What do you mean?”, and he says, “The reason we disappeared was because he took me into the backroom and said, ‘Do you have any idea who that is you’re dating?”. He says, “Who am I dating?”, and John says, “That’s fucking Tyffany Million, the major porn star”, and that’s where he found out who I was.

I said, “Yes, that’s true. I am Tyffany Million”, and he was just like, “Oh, wow!” (Laughing) He was just a normal working guy, so I thought that was kind of something because here we are, at a family gathering. I didn’t tell anybody who I was. I was there with my oldest daughter.

We were enjoying Thanksgiving dinner, and then the best friend walks in and gets that look in his eyes that I’m all too familiar with.

Johnny: I bring that up because when I used to ask that question of several of my previous interview subjects who were in adult film, I told them of a family trip to Walt Disney World in the late 1990s. My brother and I were getting off Splash Mountain. I was 15 or 16, and maybe he was 13 or 14.

I forget, but we were getting off Splash Mountain, and we saw Ron Jeremy. Even as teenagers, we knew who he was, but we obviously couldn’t really acknowledge that, so we just looked at him and then he looked back at us, gestured to the woman he had his arm around, and wiggled his eyebrows.

Tyffany: (Laughing) Yeah, everybody knows The Hedgehog. He and I were very good friends.

Johnny: Well, to wrap my interview, what’s your idea of the perfect day off?

Tyffany Million: My perfect day off is spent with my 24-year-old boyfriend. I like it when he and I just go do normal things during the day, and just enjoy each other’s company. We maybe go out to get a bite to eat and have a few drinks.

We love to shoot pool. There’s a pool hall down the street from my house, a real nice one. We like to go over there and shoot pool, and have drinks and laugh, and then come back here and have wild sex, and then fall asleep in each other’s arms.

I just love it.

My other perfect day would, of course, be to spend it with my four grandsons and my girls, but I don’t get to see them a whole lot because they live a couple of hours away. I’m really very simple. I just enjoy laughing with him, and hanging out with him shooting pool, watching movies.

Sometimes we’ll go park somewhere and do it over the hood of his car! Haha!

Johnny: Alright. Well, that does it for my questions. I again thank you for taking the time out of your schedule to speak to me.

Tyffany: My pleasure.

Johnny: I hope you have a wonderful afternoon.

Tyffany: Thank you, Johnny. It’s been a pleasure.

Johnny: Likewise, and be well.

Tyffany: Thank you. Bye bye.

Johnny: Bye.

I would again like to thank Tyffany Million for taking the time out of her schedule to speak to me, as well as providing the pictures you see in this interview. I would also like to thank Kelsey Finn at Metro Public Relations for her part in putting this interview together. For more about Tyffany’s work, visit her Linktree page, which has links to all her social media sites.

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Key takeaways

• Tyffany Million, formerly Tiffany Mellon on GLOW, has worked as a wrestler, adult performer, inventor, radio host, and bounty hunter.
• Her 2006 reality series Wife, Mom, Bounty Hunter will stream on WOW Presents Plus, introducing her work to a new audience.
• She described bounty hunting as mostly long, difficult surveillance work, far removed from the action-heavy TV portrayals.
• Tyffany invented the “Shake Awake Alarm Clock,” but lost financial benefit after her patent expired and companies copied it.
• In adult film, she emphasized professionalism, acting, and reliability as keys to her rapid rise in the industry.
• Her comedy timing shone in GLOW and adult parodies, earning her an AVN award for The XXX Files.
• She plans a selective comeback to adult entertainment, only in projects with storylines and production values.
• Tyffany is returning to wrestling as a heel manager, but health issues prevent her from taking bumps.
• She is writing three books covering her life in GLOW, adult entertainment, and bounty hunting.
• She values resilience and independence, defining her perfect day off as time spent with her boyfriend or grandchildren.