'It Was Traumatic': Woman Accused of Being An Escort, Detained for 12 Hours at LAX

A 28-year-old Australian woman has shared her traumatic experience of being detained by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at the Los Angeles International Airport under suspicion of being an “escort.”

Knewz.com has learned that the TSA was reportedly convinced she and her friend were traveling abroad for sex work—after finding cash and several sex toys in her luggage.

Luna Lovekiss was formerly a stripteaser and is currently an OnlyFans model, and neither of those facts helped her case when the airport authorities flung allegations at her and her friend.

The Australian woman was traveling to Los Angeles from Amsterdam in 2019 when airport security at the LAX stopped her and pulled her aside.

“They asked me what I did for work, as I was traveling with a lot of cash. I told them I didn’t have a job… he didn’t like that answer so I was moved into a separate line,” the 28-year-old recounted.

When the TSA asked her if there was anything suspicious in her bag, to which she promptly answered “no,” only to remember that she had a “bag full of sex toys” in her luggage.

“When they opened up my luggage and saw it I was like, ‘I know what this looks like!’ I started to panic,” she said in a recent interview.

The woman told the airport security personnel that she had bought the sex toys from Amsterdam’s red-light district because she was bored. However, the TSA reportedly did not trust her response and instead insisted that she was, in fact, an escort traveling abroad for sex work.

“They said my friend had told them that we were escorts. I was so confused because we weren’t… When I said no they accused me of lying,” Luna said.

“I was so intimidated and overwhelmed by them that after plenty of interrogation I agreed with what my friend had apparently told them.”

The moment she gave in to the allegation, her “traumatic experience” began.

She recounted that she and her friend were taken to a separate holding cell “filled with people trying to illegally enter the country.”

“I was shaking and crying – the whole place was f—– up.”

She further realized that she was also locked in with people who had been accused and suspected of acts of terrorism , in addition to suspected illegal immigrants .

“You know when you’re so nervous you feel like you’re gonna s— yourself? I had that feeling and they had to take me to the toilet,” Luna said in her account of the events. “I walked into that room and I went into a panic attack, and as someone with anxiety I don’t like talking about that.”

“I was freaking out. I’m not a f—— terrorist!”

“I was so young and had never been in trouble with the law, the conditions were horrible… we were only given one cup of instant noodles in 12 hours and the room stunk as no one could shower,” she added.

She further said in an exclusive conversation with Daily Mail that she lived with that trauma for months after the incident, so much so that she has never returned to the United States.

She added that she broke into tears while talking about the incident with her mother over dinner three months later.

“It was traumatic… The way I interact with the world now is different. I still don’t want to risk being subjected to that treatment again,” Luna said.

Following her and her friend’s 12-hour confinement, they were eventually let go by the airport authorities and sent back to Australia. Furthermore, the TSA returned Luna her luggage once she was released.