When I first got into the business, it is sad that I took that party path and not the more focused path. That set me up for how my plan was. Not following through with goals and plans. But now, in my little five-year plan, I have pulled myself out of it. I should have been saving that whole twenty years, and I wasn’t. But now I have reversed it and I am saving.

Losing my mom was a tragedy. She has been gone now for sixteen years. Having her travel around and see my shows and performances in Vegas, the Bahamas, Reno, it was awesome. She came to Philadelphia to see Superstars 85.

My step dad? No problem. He was a very strange man. He was abused, so that was his whole thing. It was more mental with me, but more physical with the rest of the family. He was a work of art. But then it made me say “I’ll show you,” and I traveled around the world and was happy and made more money than he ever made because he was always trying to say that what I did was crap, but I was actually making decent money.

When I was in Guam, we were making $1000 a week. But it was Guam. There were highs and lows. I got into diving, but it was such a tiny little isolated island where everyone was from this ship. I was there two times: in the ’90 for a year and ’96 for a year and half. In ’90 I did American Glitz and in ’96 it was C’est Fantastique.

Favorites and Least Favorites

My favorite shows were probably my first shows. Every memory down to the wardrobe people, to the stagehands, it was all wonderful.

The worst was an Indian show. We started in Toronto, Canada with Ed Fernandez, and we would drive around. We went to shitholes. Moosejaw, Saskatoon, Namaio. We went to all of these crappy towns with our van, our leopard, and our magic tricks in the snow.

The first leg out, we got in a very bad car accident, and the girl in the other car was killed. So, that started the show off really bad. We would go to these ice palaces, and it was so cold. The stages were flatbeds that we would have to perform on. And we had to change in the bathrooms. There were big splinters sticking up, and it was horrible. And going up to Cold Lake Military base to perform the yearly show. And I think it was forty below.