From uni to stripper

TYANA Hansen admits she is no saint. She likes a good time, works as a stripper and rakes in six figures a year on adult entertainment site OnlyFans.

The 25 year old admits it is a world away from who she was when first arriving on the Gold Coast in her late teens to study a double degree: “Seven years ... that’s all it took.

“It was a complete shock coming to the Gold Coast - the Gold Coast is corrupt,” she says. “I was a sweet innocent girl, I was. I am.”

She started work as a stripper, travelling regularly overseas.

“I’d take breaks from stripping, I went to work as a safety officer at one point for a big mining company. It was Work Health and Safety. Ran the site, ran the toolbox meetings.

“I did it for a year but I was like ‘This is boring, I can make $250,000 a year working for myself for two days a week’. Or I can work for someone else and get yelled at for $1200 a week. People hate safety officers,” she reflects.

But she believes that just because she has chosen to take her clothes off for a living should not impact the case against her after being one of nine charged in a drug sting. The charges stem from what is understood to be her attendance at a birthday party at The Star penthouse: “By the QPS, it was brought up - me being a stripper - and they have painted me a certain way and put me in a box.

“I’m happy to play that role if it’s for financial benefit for me. It’s just disappointing QPS have painted me (a certain) way when I’m not that way at all.”

The Ultra Tune TV ad regular doesn’t think her court drama will impact her Ultra Tune ambassador role: “Ultra Tune is all about controversy that is why they put the people in the ads they do. They don’t put saints in the ads. Ultra Tune is a big believer in second chances and that was why (they) put Mike Tyson in, because everyone deserves a second chance.”