When life gave Samantha Ardente (link is very NSFW – Don't say we didn't warn you!) lemons she not only made lemonade, she threw a shot of vodka in there as well as if to seal the take-control outlook.

The Quebecois school board office assistant who was fired after students discovered she was moonlighting as an adult film actress has embraced the industry whole-heartedly. She’s started her own porn production company which produces soft-core films featuring couples. The Canadian Press reports Ardent also starred in her company's debut feature with her “boyfriend and business associate Derek Tyler, but says she also has other projects with prominent porn stars in the works.”

Ardente - who is now going only by that stage name rather than her real name - didn’t have a chance to alert her family to her part time career before she was outed in the media. Her 12 year-old daughter hadn’t previously known either, but Ardente started the new company only after getting her daughter’s approval. She’s already in a calendar that’s out in Quebec stores, plans to start a lingerie line and says people recognize her in the street as Samantha.

And they're not even rude! Ardente says, "They say that they're happy to see I kept my head up and that I kept going forward instead of looking back."