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Hands down, this is the craziest story that I have read this year.

I caught the tail end (no pun intended) of the drama on Twitter, after this woman was pronounced dead from hanging.

This is especially interesting as it is no longer a felony in California to knowingly give a sex partner HIV and that the Supreme Court has decided to hear the case of a Christian baker who refused to bake cakes for a gay couple.

Adult film star August Ames found dead days after Twitter backlash

Pornstar August Ames, who has more than 270 adult film credits to her name, was found dead at her house in California on Tuesday.

The 23-year-old, who had a career of four years, had recently faced an intense backlash on Twitter after refusing to work with a performer who had acted in gay porn.

The Ventura County Medical examiner has confirmed the death of Ames – whose real name was Mercedes Grabowski, and revealed the cause of death to be by hanging. "Mercedes Grabowski died of asphyxia due to hanging. [The] manner is suicide," they told Hollywood Life.

While toxicology tests have not yet come back, those close to Ames have also revealed that they believe she took her own life, telling The Blast that she was prone to depression; that and the fact that Ames had also found herself in the middle of a Twitter controversy just days prior to her suicide.

On December 3, August had taken to Twitter to post: "whichever (lady) performer is replacing me tomorrow for @EroticaXNews, you're shooting with a guy who has shot gay porn, just to let cha know. BS is all I can say. Do agents really not care about who they're representing? #LAdirect I do my homework for my body."

The tweet implied that medical testing was different for straight vs gay sex scenes, causing her refusal to participate. This sparked a lot of backlash as people initially took to labelling her homophobic, and despite her defending her stand, certain fellow adult film performers called her out too.

You can read some of the tweets from the main troll Sir Jaxton Wheeler (@JaxtonWheeler), who has deleted some of the most vile things I have ever read.

So will it be a violation of someone's civil rights if a heterosexual woman refuses to act on film with a man who has engaged in gay sex?

Also, where are the Anti-Defamation League and Ivanka Trump, who have both spearheaded anti cyberbullying activism?