When she arrived in L.A. in mid-March from Montreal, on a ticket paid for with borrowed funds, her short brown hair streaked with pink, all she wanted to do was perform in enough scenes to create a nest-egg that she could take back to Canada and use to go on with her life. Instead, she's now broke, jobless and had been staying with friends, and if the tests come back Saturday evening as she's hoping they won't, HIV-positive.

"My manager [Daniel Perrault] woke me up on that morning that they all found out,"Roxx told AVN.com. "I was very upset on that day; I don't even remember what day it was."It was Tuesday, April 13, the day the news broke that popular performer Darren James had contracted HIV -- the first active performer on the straight side of the industry to do so in nearly five years.

"When I got there, me and Marc had a little conversation, because Thomas Hope told me I was going to do a d.p., and so I get there and Marc Anthony tells me it's a d.a., which stands for double anal, "Roxx recalled. "And I'm like, '‘What? I've never done a double anal.' And he's like, 'Well, that's what we need. It's either that or nothing.' And that's how they do it. But Marc Anthony was playing that, and I think that really sucks, because I'm mad at the friend I thought I had in Marc, because he knew double anal was dangerous. I knew it too, really, probably, but I was just putting it way back in my mind because I was down in California to make the maximum amount of money, to come back home wealthy. I had plans for the money."

Update: The L.A. Daily News reports that a state-county task force has drafted a plan that would make condom use mandatory in the industry. The plan would require production companies to comply with a CAL-OSHA injury and illness prevention plan, and those who do not comply would face closure. Link

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