Not many adult film stars can say they thoroughly enjoyed their families’ reactions to finding out about their racy profession, but Cindy Starfall is quite happy having the last laugh.

The veteran onscreen performer, who broke free at 15 from her Vietnamese family’s overbearing rules & regulations to embrace her personal (and sexual) freedom as a young woman in America, says that her mother, who won’t speak to her because of her porn career, first found out about Starfall’s occupation while actually watching porn herself.

“My family found out about my job because my mom and her boyfriend were watching porn in a hotel room I came on the screen; her boyfriend was well-acquainted with my body of work and enthusiastically started shouting at the screen about how hot and big of a star I am while my mother, presumably, was speechless,” she says. “She was too ashamed to tell him that the woman on the screen was her daughter, because apparently adult films are shameful if I’m making them, but not so shameful if she is enjoying them. Is that hypocritical or what? Too bad she can’t be proud of my success and accepting of the path I’ve chosen, whether she agrees with my choice or not.”

You can follow Cindy Starfall on Twitter at @cindystarfall.