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Your heart breaks a little for Bree Olson, who’s only claim to fame is being one of Charlie Sheen’s "goddesses."

Olson spoke candidly about the shame she feels as a woman in adult entertainment in a video for Real Women, Real Stories.

"I came from the adult industry but then I transitioned into the mainstream industry but I encountered a lot of issues with my transition and people not accepting me into the mainstream world," Olson said, adding that she had wanted to do porn since she was a teenager.

"The names that people have called me, it’s as if if you could take out those names and print them and put a ribbon around my whole body of all the names and things that people say to me on the internet, that’s how I feel when I walk outside the door.

"The words are something that I didn’t expect to affect me in my everyday life, so when I go out I feel as if I’m wearing ‘slut’ across my forehead.

"So I have really got into the point where there are days to weeks at a time where I don’t leave my house because I don’t feel like facing the world of what has been created out there for me."

A career in porn proved lucrative for Olson, but the stigma attached to it isn’t worth it, she admits.

"’I gave up between $30,000 and $60,000 a month and I could just go back to porn today and still make that. ‘I could go back to porn and make $20,000 just in one week if I wanted to this week and I don’t because that’s how much I don’t want my photos on the internet."

"People treat me as if I am a pedophile," she said.  "They don’t treat me like an ex-sex worker, they treat me like I would somehow bring damage to children."

Watch the video below for more on Olson’s interview.