O. G. Makoko

Young porn actress Emily Willis won AVN Female Performer of the Year in 2021. Three years later she became permanently disabled at 25. In the video below, a 2018 interview where Emily Willis talks about her background and her career. She was born Litzy Lara Banuelos in Argentina in 1998. An American family from Utah adopted her as a child. She grew up Mormon in Salt Lake City. At 19 she moved to Los Angeles and signed her first adult contract. Within three years she was the biggest young performer in America. In January 2021, at 22, she won AVN Female Performer of the Year, the youngest person ever to win it. In late January 2024 she checked into Summit Malibu for ketamine addiction. On February 4 staff found her unresponsive. Paramedics performed CPR for 30-40 minutes. The prolonged lack of oxygen left her with permanent anoxic brain damage. She survived. She is 25. She cannot speak. She cannot walk. She cannot eat without a feeding tube. She shows awareness in her eyes but cannot communicate what she sees. Doctors have told the family the brain damage is permanent. Her mother Yesenia Cooper has been documenting the recovery on social media for over a year. Fundraising for her 24-hour care has crossed hundreds of thousands of dollars. Yesenia says Emily recognizes her when she walks into the room but cannot say so. In 2024 the family filed a lawsuit against the facility alleging negligence. In 2026 they reached a 3 million dollar settlement. The facility did not admit liability. The girl who was the biggest young name in the industry is now in a hospital bed being turned every two hours so she does not get bedsores. Was Emily Willis destroyed by the facility that was supposed to save her, or by the industry that got her there in the first place?