To the fans of Michael Brandon, the beloved San Franciscan gay porn star with a 10-inch cock named Monster, a stubborn crystal meth addiction, and pending drug charges against him: Fear not.
After being arrested by police and bailed out twice this year by his boyfriend, Marcos Monzon, the porn star — whose real name is Michael Phillips — has begun a supervised pretrial recovery in rehab. If all goes well, Phillips says, he could avoid prison and be back in porn by next year.
As reported by SF Weekly in October, Phillips had gotten into meth in the ’90s, done time, sobered up, and risen to stardom as an actor, producer, and director at Raging Stallion Studios, only to fall back into addiction last year. His relapse was particularly surprising, considering he had been a lead spokesman in the city’s “Hot Sex Without Crystal? Hell Yes!!!” campaign.
“I was miserable — I was all caught up in it, and I couldn’t find my way out,” Phillips says of his 10-month tweaking binge, during which he “motel surfed” — moved around to avoid attention — and got involved in drug deals. “I’m just really happy for the cycle to have stopped.”
Since he entered treatment, which included a 45-day detox and stabilization, Brandon has gained 32 pounds and found a new Narcotics Anonymous sponsor. On a recent visit with Monzon and a reporter, he appeared healthy and optimistic, but admitted sobriety can be rough. “All the feelings are coming back,” he says. “Shame and guilt for the things I’ve put Marcos through. … I need to work on why I relapsed.” Phillips believes it might have something to do with resentment for the NA program, because the stories he shared privately in meetings often became town gossip. “There’s no anonymity for me,” he said. But after leaving the program, Phillips found himself drinking again, taking painkillers for back pain, and, finally, injecting and selling meth on the street, only to get caught in an SFPD sting operation.
While he waits to find out what charges the district attorney will pursue (his next court date is Dec. 22), Phillips is adapting to his new pink-walled home near the Haight and participating in group discussions and anger management classes. When asked about the future of his porn career, he gets feisty: “I’m not leaving the industry. Hell, no,” he says. “I spent the better part of 10 years creating my name, and I love my fans.”
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Michael Brandon is sooooooooooooooo fucken full of shit it is ridiculous! He thinks having 10″ cock is a gift to the world! WRONG! He thinks that with a large penis he is obligated to fuck for a living = WRONG! He think there is no anonymity for him in CMA, AA, NA and CA – — WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What Michael wants iw ot be a victim — he wants fame and fortune while partying like hell and then he wants to publish sob stories and get empathy from the public! The idiot even EXPECTED his (fickle) fans to pay for his legal fees! The governement of California is sick and tired of paying fo rhis public defenders, prison sentencings and rehabs! He needs to get real! Change his profession and learn about how to earn a living honestly!
He stole from me! He said that times were tough and if he could advertise as an escort on my former website: meetlocalmen.com as an escort he would pay me back. I gave him 6 months free advertising and because I also worked for Michael Jones aka “Who Boy” I knew Michael Brandon got many clients at my expense because of the countless escort reviews sent to “Who Boy” to be posted on Jones’ site male4malescorts.com. This was an escort review site. Jones died of a heart attack in 2004 but used to call me about his former friend Michael Brandon and the mean things he Brandon would say and do to him. The last year or so that Who Boy was up and running, Michael Brandon received a plethora of negative reviews but Jones and I did not publish all because Brandon kept promising he would fix everything/ He never did and never paid me for my website space which was my sole source of income at the time! He really took me. I have copies of most the negative reviews and to get even I might post them on the net so his hypnotized fans can see how bad he really is. MATT LATONA
I met Michael in 2004 in Atlanta. I was working at Outwrite Bookstore. We didn’t really have intimate conversation but he seemed sincere yet somewhat troubled. There was longing in his eyes. Beautiful blue eyes I might add! Maybe this was before the relapse but I don’t know. I wish him well. It is obvious that all this is beyond his control. Meth is so unbelievably powerful that nothing or no one else matters! I can’t hate him and I think he should be forgiven by his gay brothers. We can all be so vicious when we should be open armed. Who else is gonna be there for us? Call me naive or a bleeding heart but I will stand by him….