Washington- An adult film star who once ran for California governor agreed to behave for a year or face jail after allegedly touching herself inappropriately during a dance routine at a strip club, according to a report.

Mary Ellen Cook, 25 — better known as porn actress Mary Carey — was arrested in Lakewood, Wash., earlier this year year after performing a dance act www.adultfyi.com/read.aspx?ID=9162.

The Lakewood Police Department arrested Cook for violating the city’s cabaret ordinance.

Thursday, she entered a plea agreement to two misdemeanors for the alleged act.

“Um, well, I thought it was very nice of them to, you know, let me have a year to be good,” Cook said. “But it’s kind of scary because if I mess up it’s one year and seven months in jail. I don’t think I could survive that.”

Cook was respectful to the judge, but outside the courtroom she blasted the state’s strip club laws, calling them extremely ridiculous.

She said she’s now thinking about moving to Washington so she can do what she did in California, run for governor with the platform of promoting more liberal adult entertainment laws.