18 - the day before she was found dead of a suspected overdose of drugs and alcohol - she tweeted a picture of herself with the caption: “I feel it everywhere. They later said she had been showing up to work high. 13, three months after LA Direct Models canceled her contract. It was when the cameras were off that she fell apart. She thrived in her new career, and was nominated last year for Best New Actress at the Adult Video News Awards.
Lua - who also went by Olivia Voltaire - described herself as an “exhibitionist” and posted graphic images of herself having sex on social media.
She shot dozens of scenes for hard-core movies like “Helpless Teens” before being handed a lucrative contract in April 2017 with porn producer LA Direct Models. Olivia Lua, a 24-year-old doe-eyed brunette from Philadelphia, was an instant hit when she joined the LA porn scene in 2016.