What really happened to that body? Was he really living out of a van? Did he quit porn or did porn quit him? Get the answers straight from the Heart.
Roman Heart was the boy we all wanted to fuck in the ’00’s. He was one of Falcon’s crown jewels, getting DP’d in Roman’s Holiday 1 just one brief snapshot among his dozens of films. In 2009 he headed off to Vegas and started a now defunct site with his partner in a now defunct relationship, Benjamin Bradley.
Back in the day, Roman and Benjamin were a true porn power couple who by 2011, had been together for seven years.
Roman Heart personified the word stunning in his day.
He even made a PSA in 2011.
It was for for CRUSH, a Las Vegas-based “movement for a smokefree LGBT scene” and of course, set to a Britney Spears song.
Then in August of 2015, a tweet from Jed Athens with a couple of new pics of Roman got people talking.
Physically, he was not what he once was by any stretch. But Jed went onto to imply he was a meth head living out of a van.
And he was advertising his hole.
Then three days later, he uploaded this video of himself being self-penetrated by his own fuck machine. As you can imagine, that did little to quash the rumors.
The rumors have continued to fly and apparently, Roman had enough. Ready to silence his accusers with a dose of reality, Roman sent this to The Sword:
I don’t live out of a van, but rather have a two bedroom two bath condo and spend a lot of my time with Benjamin. I stopped working in the industry because like the Music Industry people started downloading porn for free, the money wasn’t there Anymore, and my personal site died with my relationship with Benjamin. It’s hard to do the same job for a fraction of the money, not to mentioned there was no more PR, no makeup, no residuals, no per diem, and instead of traveling to Argentina or London, they now film in Russian river or Palm Springs… And I tried to do the right thing in the relationship I was in and stop working to be monogamous …
And quite frankly I don’t need to work. I am enjoying life.
And to explain not being so muscular, I was part of the rat race for so long and worked out all the time, and did steroids. Since quitting, I hadn’t worked out and don’t do steroids, which ruined my natural test levels, and now have testosterone of an 80-year-old man. I am not on top of my physique right now but I was for ten years, let’s just say I’m taking time off.
Let me conclude with this, “Roman heart” was a job, or career. But not an identity or make me who I am, I don’t regret anything I did, Don’t get me wrong . but Roman was a persona, not real. So naturally when I stopped working and quit, that I would stop all related social media, etc with the name Roman Heart. The business didn’t make me who I was and I didn’t find my identity in it and being Roman Heart, unlike so many models that can’t seem to identify and distinguish between the industry and the reality, they get lost in it and can’t imagine not being that alter sexy ego.
So there I’ve said my word even when I have been such an advocate to ignore these blogs and post, because the people that really know me, and know that I’m happy and stable and not living out of a van, or starving for attention…
Thanks for the concern and comments, why does everyone go to the worst possible conclusion?? Give people a benefit of doubt. Quite frankly I don’t see why people are talking bout it. Said my peace and if I never said that before now I am: Good bye.
Roman Heart
And there you have it, guys. We wish him well and hope his reality is as rosy as he makes it out to be. That would make for a wonderful holiday indeed!
Who couldn’t use a lot more Heart in their lives?
So sad to find out he’s dead. Died years ago now. Was such a fav back in the 00’s. Wondered what had happened to him after he and Ben broke it off.
Seems alot of porn performers do get into heavy drugs though and crash in the end. Way to young. R.I.P
RIP Roman Heart.
Rest in peace Garrett. May you find peace in rest that eluded you in life
The biggest lie was that he thinks he could get residuals from porn! Girl please
Rest in peace roman, one of my crushes in my youth. Very sad. Love.
You will always be number one. I saw you in a video when I was 15 and wanted to do to you what the
guys were doing to you in the video. and didn’t know if I knew how. Anyway I am glad to hear you
are well.
Bravo Roman! Sorry to see you leave the industry. You were my fav! But happy you’ve found happiness outside of gay porn. Congrats, to you, Roman.
Thanks for posting this. I’ve always wanted to know the truth from Roman Heart himself. I’m VERY happy he’s doing well. Best wishes to Roman Heart.
Great article.
You should another “Where is he now” about Jason Ridge. He was a pretty big porn star back in the days.
He is a Facebook friend. He is doing amazing. Married and looks better than ever.
Married with a woman or a man? Was he gay for pay?
Do you mind sharing the link of his profile?
At the height of his career, Roman Heart brought glamour to porn models. Falcon Studios catered to his needs. He asked for certain models to be his scene partner like Chase Hunter. Chad Hunt went back to Falcon Studios just to fuck him…twice! I have not yet seen a porn model that matches Garrett’s beauty. After a scene in “Roughn It” and “Woodshop”, Garrett didn’t look the same anymore. I think PORN quit him.
At the height of his career, Roman Heart brought glamour to porn models. Falcon Studios catered to his needs. He asked for certain models to be his scene partner like Chase Hunter. Chad Hunt went back to Falcon Studios just to fuck him…twice! I have not yet seen a porn model that matches Garrett’s beauty. After a scene in “Roughn It” and “Woodshop”, Garrett didn’t look the same anymore. I think PORN quit him.Recently, I saw pictures of Benjamin’s chemo treatments. As far as, the persona of Roman Heart…Garrett took those exact lines from a Chad Hunt interview. In the end, Roman Heart didn’t make Roman Heart a millionaire. I’ve read this somewhere.
I have met the real Roman Heart and take what he says in this post as the truth. Jed Athens if you have ever read his blog pretty much talks S*it about most of his costars so he likes to stir up drama.
Wishing “Roman Heart” the very best. Long and safe life. Real friends around, REAL friends. May Roman be strong and stronger day after day.
Hey, I’m as snarky as the next gay but cut this man some fucking slack … and who posts phone numbers here? Seriously? He’s a cool guy so wish him well. Direct your contempt, all of it, toward the Trump administration.
I was fairly good friends with him during high school. We stayed in fairly good contact until 2006 or so I want to say, when he stopped returning texts/calls. I ran into his boyfriend (Benjamin Bradley) at LA pride in 2008 at The Abbey and asked how everything was going and all seemed to be pretty good.
I have since heard from former mutual friends that Garrett (that is Romans real name and the name I knew him as when we were HS friends) got pretty deep into drugs (meth) and maybe wasn’t in a great place anymore. I never verified this or have any actual evidence of it, but the people who told me this were not just random people, they were people I believe would know what is
Going on with him.
Anyways, Garrett I hope you figure out whatever it is you need to figure out in life and you get to a good, happy place.
Thanks for sharing. I met Garrett camping in Eastern WA once.
At my cabin on the lake? I remember Garrett coming up to my cousins yearly party up there as he was dating, or fucking rather, a guy we were friends with. He had just graduated high school a month or so prior to that and he was as sweet as could be. He hadn’t even completely come out of the closet yet to his family and such, I took that as a sign he wasn’t sure he was gay which meant that I spent the whole weekend drooling all over him and asking him over and over if he was sure he didn’t like girls at all. Young and cocky then, I just couldn’t wrap my head around someone as hot as him not being attracted to me lol. I cringe when I think about how ridiculous I must have looked and sounded and I literally couldn’t help it. Thank god he was such a doll about it, because I’m sure being eye fucked by someone you aren’t attracted to every morning at the breakfast table and having your sexuality questioned multiple times per hour must get pretty fucking annoying lol.
A month after that trip I heard he already had flown the coop down to LA, he didn’t waste much time after coming out now did he?
I don’t know what happened to Roman and I’ve only seen a limited few of his video. I’d like to see all of them and all of him in person. Dressed also. If anyone knows how to reach him and knows he needs help please give him my name and phone number…..Michael E. ******** my private cell number is ###-###-####. I’ll gladly send my private M.D. and my private jet to meet him any where a fly him back to the city I live in. I’ll set him up in a private condo or at my estate where I live in a guest house while he’s getting the best medical he might or does need. He’ll have all the security and privacy from every one until he thinks and the medical team thinks he’s ready to and when Roman wants to leave when he feels well enough. No, there’s not any personal reason I want to do this except to see him well. He’s around the age of my own son.
Thank you for this post, as a porn fan I was wondering about him this months…I also hope that he’s fine, he was like a prince of porn, he was everywhere, I hope he’s going to have his revenge one day. May you do an article about Benjamin Bradley too?? “Whatever happened to Benjamin Bradley?” He disappeared!!!
https://www.instagram.com/frankly_benjamin/?hl=es
Isn’t it Benjamin?
HAHAHA “I hope he’s okay! Seriously.
Update: Here’s some more of Roman 2015, including a video of him getting fucked by a fuck machine in a sad cluttered bedroom.”
You could care about him as much as you care about the shit you took last night. Fake adoration for dime a dozen hookers and drug addicts. PORN is NOT REAL!
He looked good earlier on in the mid 2000’s but i think since he had plastic surgery/too much botox, his face just looked weird and all swollen. Maybe he fell on hard times and there wasn’t something we were seeing with him and Ben. Shame.
he’s only 29, an age when men should still look good, he was a great favorite of mine and hope he ended up better than this, his porn work was fabulous!!
Some you guys are so judgmental. Maybe he doesn’t have a drug habit at all. He was a gay porn star and mostly a bottom. It’s possible his health may not be so great. You guys would feel bad if it’s because he’s been sick. Whatever is going on, I hope he pulls through okay.
It’s drugs not HIV or some other illness unless you consider drug addiction an illness since it is a disease.
“Star” There are no so called “Porn Stars” anymore. They come and go so quickly. They get this huge Ego. They blow all there money on crap shit then put up a go fund me page or an Amazon wishlist and you suckers give them money and gifts. I don’t care about your name or what you do outside of fucking on camera. Get me hard so I can bat off and get on with my day. There is no meaning to their lives to you on a personal level.
I am so saddened by this news, he was my absolute fave at falcon back in 05. I was devastated when he left falcon and broke up with his bf ben. Sadly that was the beginning of a long downward spiral for him. I’ve been wondering what had happened to him. Does he have any friends or family to support him. I hope he can get off the drugs and get clean again? It’s lucky he’s only 29, it’s not to late for him, yet. I don’t think it’s ever to late to get off drugs, it’s beeter late than never, I just hope Roman feels this way, as he has to wnt to change?
I would love to see him come back to porn, specifically Falcon, he could be a superstar all over again? Could’nt Falcon get in touch with him and get him into rehab and get him healthy again?
I just miss him so much and want to see him healthy again and not end up dead, which is what im really scared of.
Just my thoughts.
Still doable. Also probably just charges 20 bucks and dinner at Jack in The Box. I love a good downward spiral on guys that got caught up in their own ideas of “fame” and privilege, then they come back down to earth and have to be cum dumps for guys they would have never even given a thought to a few years prior.
Roman, if I were in vegas I’d look you up!
I doubt that anyone is so down on their luck that they would ever hook up with such an obvious pig as you.
I found his profile but I’m not going to post it, I don’t want to add too much more fuel to the fire. Let that worn out cunt Jed Athens post it.
But it’s definitely Roman, unless it’s someone who’s trying to pose as him but more than likely not.
He has definitely lost a lot of muscle mass. As far as his face goes, it could be due to all meth but if I remember correctly he had work done on his face, which made no sense considering how young he was. Once you lose or gain weight on the face all that work is not going to translate very well.
Okay first things first. Jed Athens is scum and has zero stage presence.
OMG! I followed Roman’s career and he was THE sexiest guy in the industry. Everybody wanted to fuck Roman. I remember him saying he was gonna do bigger & better things after he left Benjamin. I believe after Falcon merged with Raging Stallion, he decided to leave. If it’s meth or HIV, he can save himself. It’s sad.
His face always reminded me of an Orc from lord of the rings. Crystal is a hell of a drug!
Gaunt, tired, and sad. Looks like meth, just like far too many gay men this day and age. That sucks. :(
The first pic, the gaunt one does kinda look like him a bit.. hard to tell one the second one. Damn he was so fucking good looking and his scenes were always so point on, he made one hot bottom never afraid to take the bigger dicks and even when he topped he still did it with style. His moaning was always so hot… his face, body, ass and his dick. He was always one of my faves and you could not get a better looking couple than him and Ben anywhere. Their website was pretty hot too with all the bb scenes.
There has to be someone from the Falcon days who can verify or at least add onto what happened to him. Pretty sad…if he is in a van by the river or whatnot.. always kinda hoped that something better had come his way :( in life.
Hmm…drug addiction takes out another one…..
Can you do a ” where is he now ” on Shane Rollins ? Always wondered what happened to him
Tragic passing and I hope he knew he had fans that cared about him and wondered how he was doing in retirement.. He was so beautiful when he arrived on the scene and quickly became my favourite.. Roman’s fans who knew him from his time in the industry will miss him. Condolences to his family and friends.