PORN VALLEY – AVN’s Mark Kernes reports that Missy, the popular porn performer from the Nineties, was reportedly found dead in her apartment in Valencia, Calif. from an accidental overdose of her prescription medication. She was 41 years old.

According to the story, funeral services were held approximately a month ago, but weren’t publicized because Missy’s family wanted no adult industry presence at the ceremony. The death was not considered to be a suicide.

Missy, according to Kernes’ story, made her adult debut in Midnight Pictures’ 1994 production Cuntrol, directed by Jim Enright.

During the course of her career, Missy and then-husband Mickey G. were signed to non-exclusive contracts with Wicked. Missy and Mickey G. had met while both worked at a local hospital – she in the administration department, he as a male nurse.

Missy appeared in over 350 XXX movies during her five-year career and received five AVN awards – including both Best New Starlet and Female Performer of the Year at the 1997 AVN Award show. She also received three from the X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCO) and was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2002.

Kernes also relates the following story about Missy told by Hank Armstrong, husband of the late Anna Malle which appeared in the AVN November 2001 issue.

“About six months before she quit, we were in New York City and staying at Neville’s [Chesters] with Michael [Mickey] and Missy and we were all going to work together. And she had very strange behavior where she wouldn’t talk to anybody, she wasn’t socializing, and that’s not the Missy we knew, because we were all friends; we hung out. And we asked her what the hell was wrong – Anna asked her – and she goes, ‘I want to get out of the business. I’m scared. I’m afraid that Michael will kill me.’ And we go, ‘What!?’ And she goes, ‘I’m just really afraid for my health, my safety.’ She goes, ‘I want to quit and I don’t know what I’m going to do.’ And she was just very scared, and she says, ‘I’m sorry I even told you that because I know it’ll get back to him. Please don’t tell him that I said it.’ I said, ‘We’re your friends. We’re not going to tell nobody nothing.'”

Armstrong also related that Mickey G., at least in his presence, wasn’t physically or verbally abusive to Missy. “So we shut our mouths. I mean, what could we do? We didn’t know what was going on, but that’s my personal opinion, that it was maybe physical and mental anguish that pushed her to get away.”

Kernes also quotes a letter AVN received from Missy describing a mental breakdown and the fact that it took a lot of prayer on her part to be normal again.

“Since then I’ve had several doctors and breakdowns and went through some kind of evil terror and pain. Lord God and Jesus never left me and now I will never leave them. I fear for all of you because I met something that was pure evil in that industry…..I’m having premonitions of the end of time. I freaked out and had a seizure. God will not leave us. Jesus gave me a message of pure love, it was God. Now I’m a Christian and always have been. I pray for all of you all the time, because I came to your industry to one day change it to a more loving atmosphere with God.”

In her letter Missy went on to say that she and Mickey G. were no longer together by her choice and that she did it for his own good.