But as the 2000s gave way to the 2010s, she gradually faded from view.
She’s been out of the spotlight for some time, but hasn’t faded away completely.
Growing up in such a restrictive environment became stifling.
Even before hitting adolescence, she embraced the concept of teenage rebellion with a vengeance.
“When I was 11, I did a lot of Ecstasy,” she told EW.
“I used to rob houses, steal cars and stuff.
And it just got worse in high school.”
Eventually, she was sent to a special boarding school for troubled teens.
“I got sent six months to juvie.
Without a Vietnamese gang, she gravitated toward the Mexican gang.
Using a fake ID, she then landed a job as an exotic dancer.
That led to an offer to model in Los Angeles.
“I’d never been to California and it was like a free trip,” she explained.
“So that’s how I got started.”
Interviewed byVH1, she jokingly claimed she was tricked into appearing on the show.
A tongue-in-cheek spin on “The Bachelor,” the show’s groundbreaking twist came courtesy of her bisexuality.
The cast featured 16 straight men and 16 lesbians, all vying to win Tequila’s heart.
“It was kind of weird at first,” she admitted.
“I thought, ‘What am I doing here?
Can I leave now?’
But once you get to know people, you become involved.”
When the show returned for a third season, however, Tequila was not part of it.
the “Ikki Twins” date their way through 12 straight men and 12 lesbians.
That show, however, never saw the light of day.
Meanwhile, conservative religious group Focus on the Family likewise decried the show.
Tequila addressed the controversy in an entry posted on MySpace.
Gay or not!”
she wrote, as reported byThe Christian Post.
“I was never bisexual, I was never a lesbian, I was never gay.
It was all gay for pay,” she explained in a video she posted onYouTube.
“As a matter of fact, when I was filming that reality show, I had a boyfriend.
In 2006, she shared the single, “F*** Ya Man.”
In 2007, she unveiled another single, “I Love U.”
Released without a record label, the track was produced by rapper Lil Jon.
“I have my own original sound,” Tequila toldEntertainment Weeklyin a 2010 interview.
“Because I had released music a long time ago, before I was famous.”
The mob then chased her off the stage, forcing her to hide in a trailer.
She subsequently threatened to sue.
“It was immediately obvious that she was not welcome.
Her injuries were only sustained because of her refusal to leave the stage.”
Not even close!!”
Early on, however, the show issued acryptic tweetannouncing she’d been ditched from the show.
Tequila issued a statement backtracking from her earlier remarks, offering an array of excuses.
Despite her apology, she was not invited back.
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AsThe Washington Postreported, she’d captioned the photo, “Seig [sic] Heil!”
Spencer’s dream version of America is an all-white “ethno-state” that would get rid of minorities.
So where would the Tequila, of Vietnamese heritage, fit into that?
“There are always exceptions, I guess,” Spencer toldThe Washington Post.
“I’m a generous guy.”
In 2014, she welcomed her first child, Isabella.
That legal battle dragged out for years.
In late 2019, the squabbling exes reached a custody agreement.
