Okay… the name came from an old roommate I had before the industry. Her name was Michelle M. Whenever I had my friends over she would show them porn on her computer like it was cool & I was so embarrassed. The only reason I didn’t take her full name was because I was afraid she would sue me & she could prove that we had lived together.
I needed a last name & because we were talking about going to the comedy club & that Chris Tucker had just come through…. That’s how Tucker just popped in my mind & it was written down & that was it.
2. That’s a great question… I feel like I need to give you some perspective in answering that. So… I was both working full time & going to school full time when I started doing scenes. I was going to a JC in SD and transferring into Howard as that was my dream school. Because I was working… they took my income into consideration when I filled out my FAFSA (I really didn’t have support in that)… long story short… I couldn’t afford to pay to go there. I had spent my whole life in SD and wanted to be around more black folks. I was dealing w/my car breaking down every week damn near & just trying to stay afloat all while trying to go to school. That opportunity came & it wasn’t easy but ultimately I made that decision that it would be a way for me to attend then I could just go on w/my life w/my degree & HBCU experience. Lol. It didn’t quite work out that way but I don’t regret it.
Also, you have to consider that to others like yourself or other people who know of me as Michelle Tucker, that was what I did… and everything else after that is because that failed or whatever. To me, I have been living my life both before, during, and after. That was less than a year of my life. Although it’s a big deal to many, I have had jobs for much longer than that both before & after. To me it’s small potatoes but to some, that’s all they know of me.