Honeysuckle Divine aka Betty Jane Allsup

 

Chapter  5   The Woman Who Helped End Communism & Prevent WWIII  

 BETTY JANE ALLSUP – The Woman Who Arranged for me to give the speech of Our Lady of Fatima in front of the White House, thereby was partly responsible for ending the Cold War, Communism & the threat of Nuclear Annihilation Looming over the Planet – with the Possibility of World War between Russia & the US – Nations would have been annihilated.  Rasa’s part written 12-30-21

 

STORY “WHAT HAPPENED TO HONEYSUCKLE DIVINE?”

From a site called ‘Rialto’ 

Thanks to MICHAEL GROSS for his memories & pictures

 

https://www.therialtoreport.com/2014/10/05/whatever-happened-to-honeysuckle-divine-stripping-god-and-ping-pong-balls/

 

from the extra long biographical article {It's like a whole book!} – see the link above  

11.  Kellie Everts – the Stripper for God (1976-1979)

Betty’s religious calling continued to play an important part in her life: “I often daydreamed of being in a group of nuns working secretly together as strippers – who mysteriously disappear after work going back to the convent.”

In early 1976, Betty met her ideal counterpart, Kellie Everts.

 

*** {Rasa says:  It was July 1975, I was on AM Washington speaking about the Esquire article – the first national article on female body building.} ***

Everts was a bodybuilder and stripper, who had been Miss Nude Universe 1969 and Miss Body Beautiful 1974.

 

*** {Rasa says:  Miss Body Beautiful 1^st place, twice Second Place & twice BEST BODY {on stage with Arnold1972 B’klyn Academy of Music}.  Miss Americana 2^nd place & BEST BODY on the same stage with Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Felt Forum.} ***

 

 She also had a deep evangelical religious conviction and was the self-styled ‘Stripper for God’, an ecdysiast who was also a minister. Everts was the Vice President of ‘One World Light Church’, a small offbeat Christian sect that sought to unite all faiths.

Betty was smitten with the idea of joining Everts: “I became a student and a disciple of Kellie Everts after seeing her on a T.V. show. I was impressed by her spiritual qualities. I believe Kellie Everts is a Living Saint, and her closeness to God can’t help but cause me to love and admire her.”

When Everts ordained Betty as a minister in February 1976, reactions were skeptical to say the least:

From Cheri magazine (April 1977):

God must be having a nervous breakdown. I dig that his job must be incredibly demanding but Honeysuckle Divine a REVEREND?! I guess the big G does work in mysterious ways but it sure is a sign of the changing times that his newest messenger’s specialty is shooting pickles out of her snatch.

 

Betty and Everts (right) become close and talked about how stripping could spread the word of the Lord, and how they could set up a boarding home for children from poor homes in Fort Lauderdale, but their relationship was strained by Betty’s frequent busts.

On March 8, 1977, she was arrested for performing at Aquarius Adult Center in Gloucester, NJ – whilst in the middle of playing ‘Mary Had A Little Lamb’ on the horn (“That’s what you get for fucking sheep, I guess!”) This time it was the Camden County sector of the New Jersey Health Department that was called in to inspect all equipment used. As a result her mop, grocery cart, ping pong balls, horn, and stage supplies were confiscated as evidence. Betty was released on a $5,000 bail until a health report could be issued. In the end no report was issued, and the case fizzled out – exhausting Betty’s meager savings still further.

Then Betty was arrested in New York. She had returned to there in April 1977 for an engagement at the Melody Burlesque and stayed with Kellie Everts at her apartment in Brooklyn. Betty’s show was big news, and Cheri’s Peter Wolff came to cover it for the magazine. Other New York-based friends, such as fellow strippers Monica Kennedy, Jacquie Brodie, and Sonja Tokyo, and porn actors Tina Russell and Marc Stevens, joined the crowds eager to see her show again.

But on a Tuesday night, Betty was busted with another act, Wendy Williams (who, as Wendy O’Williams, would later achieve greater fame as lead singer for the American punk band, the Plasmatics). Rod Swenson, Wendy’s partner and a Times Square live show impresario, got them a lot of press, including coverage on the ABC Six O’Clock News.

 

*** {Rasa says:  On the news, instead of talking about herself, she talked about me!} ***

 

Another bust came a few weeks later at the Studio Theater at 1632 Market St, Philadelphia where she was given a police citation.

 

Betty was keen to prove her value to Everts and to the ‘One World Light Church’, and so on June 16, 1978, she arranged for Everts to preach a message to Our Lady of Fatima in front of the White House with the aim of bringing about the conversion of Russia. Betty Jane got the permit and sent out the press releases to all in Washington.

 

*** {Rasa says:  I was impressed by her zeal for God’s work, & the way she handled the promotion.  She wrote things out by hand – not typewriter – xeroxed them - & sent them to all the media including the Russian Embassy, which answered her that they would consider witnessing the sermon!} ***

As a publicity event, it was successful (it was covered the following day on the front page of the Washington Post)

 

*** {Rasa says:  There was front page publicity COAST TO COAST in the United States – all the way to the Los Angeles times – where I got a call from an agent about doing a movie on my life.  We were ON THE WASHINGTON NEWS before & after the speech, the Washington Post did a huge article the DAY BEFORE the speech & that’s why we had a BIG AUDIENCE of Washington men in suits & the Washington News there again.  We were called, at the theater by SIXTEEN RADIO STATIONS the day after the speech – from all over the US!} *** 

 

Betty Jane Allsup

 I knew her fairly well, she stayed with me like 3 months because God told her to "stay close to Kellie" so she called me & asked me to move in.  I said OK & the exorcisms I did on her had not to do with porn or performing.  While she traveled by bus on her way to see me {she called me at each stop from pay phones}, she kept getting psychosomatic paralysis.  I defined this as being 'from the devil' trying to stop her from reaching me, & did exorcisms on the phone.  Each time I prayed the paralysis disappeared. 

The article says I denied knowing her – that they had contacted me - not true – No one contacted me about her - I have made inquiries even recently but could not get any info. 

Understand that those in the adult trade are working out of necessity to SURVIVE.  They are not IMMORAL – it is not SIN or an affront to the Almighty.  Second, her PERFORMANCE is an ACT, NOT REAL LIFE.  Do not confuse the person with their act or performance as 'All the world's a stage, & we are merely players.' 

     As far as being a person like she said, in spite of her actions, including adult sex therapy, she 'felt like an angel' & why?  Because she has a good heart, 'the pure in heart shall see God' Jesus said.  She was NOT SINNING as adult trade workers do not sin because of their actions, unless they are hateful, cruel or do something to hurt others.  WHO DID SHE HURT? 

I did NOT like her act because it was demeaning / self deprecating.  But she did it to SURVIVE.  As just a plain dancer, like this says, she was unable to support herself.  She was clever & thought of gimmicks that worked - her finances increased after that.  As this says, she became a star & had big audiences.  I also thought her act was bad for her psyche & life in general, as it was incredibly stressful to get arrested constantly, where in each state she got arrested, in order to clean her record, she would have to return to that state & face charges.  There would be only a deficit not a benefit to her, each time she did this.  The time & expense was so great she missed facing some of these accusations.  So the charges remained on record.

 Because of her good heart, religious background & spiritual intentions, she was CHOSEN BY GOD to set up the occasion of my preaching in front of the White House.  This was the highlight of my life & hers, although this event HAS NOT BEEN RECOGNIZED OR APPRECIATED AS HAVING AN EFFECT ON THE WORLD STAGE.  It is DISMISSED because the women involved were in the adult trade – society is not yet able to see past that.

 Because of Our Lady of Fatima, the Power of her Immaculate Heart, the Polish Pope got elected, then Reagan & Gorbachev.  People did pray the rosary for the conversion of Russia {Betty Jane went to Church daily & said they were praying it as a group in the Church of the Immaculate Conception}, the Pope did consecrate Russia to her Immaculate Heart {after he got shot & the moment he recovered asked to see the papers on Fatima}, then Perestroika & Glasnost occurred.  The Cold war ended, Communism fell because of this event.  And mark this:  the threat of World War III which loomed at that time was AVERTED & nations were not annihilated.  Holy Mary's Immaculate Heart Triumphed.  See my account:

 http://www.kellieevertsistripforgod.com/fatima.php

 I assert that she should be remembered as she wished - as a spiritual person rather than being limited to the roles she played for a livelihood.  And I might add, many of those in the adult trade love God & have good hearts. Jesus said to the Pharisees 'The Prostitutes shall go into Heaven before you.'

           Her religious life when young, from the Rialto article:    “as a teen it started to dominate her every thought. Betty didn’t drink, smoke, curse or gamble. She would help the elderly and those even poorer than her. She regularly prayed for the sick and the needy. She was a model Christian girl.”

 

2.     The Convent, and the waitress (1959 – 1963)

In summer 1959, Betty had had enough of Rock Island. She was 21, and wanted a fresh, more Godly, start to her adult life.

She left for Philadelphia where she became a postulant at the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart convent. (A postulant is the first step in the training to be a nun. After a period of time, a postulant becomes a novice and, after several years, a novice becomes a nun).

The new life started well, but after only three months, Betty had had enough. “I loved the nuns and the convent life, but I couldn’t understand the spiritual lessons they tried to teach me. I felt an inner compulsion to run away.”

One night the devil appeared to her and told her he would kill her if she stayed in the convent. Betty Jane, terrified, climbed out of the window and ran for her life.

         

   “At the same time, religion was never far away. As she said to a bewildered Penthouse magazine interviewer in 1975: “I would like to be remembered as a person who believed in St Augustine, and as somebody who was a very spiritual person. I believe in the City of God as opposed to the City of Man. The City of Man is mostly a physical thing but the only time you sin is when you transgress against spiritual things. The free will is a spiritual thing. Censorship is against free will. It is against God.”

 

From ‘My Bust’, by Honeysuckle Divine, Cheri magazine (October 1978):

“On November 13, 1959, I ran away from a convent in Philadelphia. Once I was gone I realized I’d better call and tell them I was okay. But if the Mother Superior spoke to me, I knew that I’d break down and go back. So instead I called the Missing Persons Bureau and said that if the convent reported me, please tell them I was fine. A police matron came to me and helped get me civilian clothes, and they took me to dinner. Then they drove me to the airport and saw that I got safely back to Rock Island.”

 *** {Rasa says: The article calls me the 'self styled' Stripper for God.  I was ordained – {a woman of God, whether or not I had a legal minister license which I did, from the Calvary Grace Christian Church} & gave about 1k sermons during a period of 14 years - 1973 to 1987 when I preached...} ***

Today I have written & published 21 books available on the internet – several on strictly spiritual subjects - Amazon, Barnes & Noble & Lulu Press, most under the name Rasa Von Werder, a couple as Kellie Everts.  I am on Wikipedia, but it is far from a complete synopsis.  Check my life stories Parts 1 to 5 & more coming shortly.  The name of my bios is "I Strip for God” – 5 volumes so far, will be perhaps 3 more. 

          Our Time in Washington before the Speech

 Below:  Hell was shown to the children of Fatima - after that a vision Lucia had while in her convent

We were both dancing that week at the Plaza Theater – she’d got me the gig.  She was not Honeysuckle Divine, the one & only – that was too elaborate, she was ‘Angie Baby.’  She was very pretty, had a nice body, her body language said ‘humble’ instead of ‘confident,’ which did not mark her as ‘star.’{The audience, if you aren’t confident, will devour you.  They might ignore you like you don’t mean anything, laugh at you or even boo you – they might shout insults, they might walk out on your act unless you command s Presence – it isn’t just looks or talent – it’s the energy you transmit.}

So ‘as a woman’ she had no ‘pride’ or ‘self esteem’.  But when she did her ‘Honeysuckle’ act she was perfect as it was SELF DEMEANING /DEPRECATING.  This SUITED HER PERSONALITY, her total humility & self abnegation.  She came out on the stage as a CLEANING WOMAN, with a mop that she used as a joke, & did all sorts of incredibly humiliating, salaciously ingenious things with her vagina.  Her ability to make money came out of this act – it was hit.  She went from $300 a week as a dancer to $1,500 a week doing this.  No woman had ever done the kind of things she did.  They were humiliating, embarrassing & hilarious.  The audience screamed with laughter. 

However, this is important: You cannot judge, measure or define a person by what they do on stage or in the ‘theater of life,’ – as long as it’s not ‘for real.’  What she did was for money / survival.  Boris Karloff was not a monster, though he played Frankenstein & other villains, neither is Anthony Hopkins or Bela Lugosi.  To rivet the min-d & focus on the sexually comedic act Betty Jane did on stage is to focus on a part she played – it was in her life but NOT HER LIFE, it was theater.  It was personality, not her soul.  She was not, in her heart, the character she played.  Inside she was a kind, gentle, humble soul who loved God & cared about others.  To focus only on her theatrical act, to speak of it only, is to continue her entertainment, but it is not explaining her true self.  As her act was a form of self-exploitation, for people to focus on that & that alone, is to exploit her again, & to make matters worse, it makes her seem eccentric in a bad way, like she’s crazy.  Her act was ‘crazy’ but she’s smart as a fox……………….. 

I was not gung ho about the preaching part of the week in Washington, but it grew on me as the days went by.  I struggled financially as a stripper because although I was a star, the work was sporadic - {during all my life stripping I lived modestly, week to week, with no money for back up.  I became relatively wealthy when I started my own business making domination & dance videos – within two years saving 200k with which I bought a house in the country, upstate NY}.  Even if you make 1 or 2k a week, if you only work say 10 weeks a year, you aren’t well off.  And so, when Betty Jane procured this gig for me – at less than my usual salary –it was $750 a week where I usually made 1k I was grateful.  I would cooperate by doing the speech because she insisted from the beginning ‘You’re going to preach in front of the White House.’  I looked upon it as my DUTY. 

How Betty Jane came up with the idea of Our Lady of Fatima I haven’t a clue.  I believe God put it into her head.  Obviously it was a Catholic thing – she had heard of it as I had.  I explain elsewhere my background, coming from a country occupied by Communist Russia, being oppressed, my Dad the Professor was a community leader & in all his speeches he stressed removing Communism from our nation.  Yes I heard of Our Lady of Fatima, probably even saw the movie, ‘Miracle at Fatima’ but I did not know word for word what She wanted & had to brush up.  For this I got a booklet somewhere & studied it nightly. 

Betty Jane had six cats & I was impressed by how much she loved them, even cooking fish for them every night!  Daily she’d take some of them in a carry case down the elevator & let them loose outside for an hour, then bring them back, take the other guys down.  Not sure how she got them to walk about & then gather them again to bring them back up.  Not that they were cooped up – the lovely balcony of her apt had plenty of light & they lounged in the sun.

She told me how she wore the same dress several days in a row {she wore silky dresses & looked fetching in them – men paid attention} until one of her cats went into the closet & dragged out a different dress & put it by her feet.

And she spoke of Peter Jennings incessantly – that she had had an affair with him & he was stalking her wherever she went.  I thought it was all imagination /wishful thinking, but I didn’t say anything.  When she came to stay with me maybe a year later she admitted the Peter Jennings thing was a fantasy.

Each evening we drank tea, she ate vegetarian, I could eat but little as one must stay thin - & the highlight every evening was the Holy Rosary, which we prayed with love. 

Then I had a VISION of Our Lady.  Later on I published a book, ‘Mother of the Immaculate Heart’ & have the account on the back of it. 

VISION & DIRECTIVE FROM THE IMMACULATE HEART

June 11, 1978  Washington, D.C.

 *** As I was just about to fall asleep but still awake I saw the Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  It was enveloped in a brilliant white light, & the Heart was in the light, the white light like a cloud of moving light. 

Our Blessed Mother was to the left presenting me the Heart.  She said: 

“I WANT YOU TO SHOW THE WHOLE WORLD MY IMMACULATE HEART.” 

Suddenly the cloud of white light moved more quickly.  I saw a large brown cross in the sky.

The white light went to earth & formed a pool of water on the ground.  This water also looked like milk.  The brown cross went into the water, was dipped in the water, & came back up. ***

Below:  Betty Jane on TV without her blonde wig - her hair went to her waist.  After that Lucia, Francisco & Jacinta, the children of Fatima in Portugal, 1917.  Mother God CHOSE them the way she chose myself & Betty Jane Allsup, to magnify her wishes, to bring about World Peace & repentance for sin. 

To see the entire account of what went on, the speech & its results, please see my website, which is Kellie Everts I Strip for God – Our Lady of Fatima.  

http://www.kellieevertsistripforgod.com/fatima.php

BACK TO BETTY JANE ALLSUP FROM THE RIALTO ARTICLE:

 Honeysuckle Divine: Las Vegas, 1985

Honeysuckle Divine’s name was in lights again, except this time it had been written by someone who couldn’t spell.

‘HONEYSUCK DIVIN’ read the billboard outside the strip club.

Inside the small, hot building, Honeysuckle sat in the cramped backstage quarters looking tired. A local house stripper, Misty Rae, who’d worked with Honeysuckle on a few occasions, remembers that night. It was the last time she saw Honeysuckle Divine.

“She was looking pretty beat after the show, so I said “Tired, honey?”

She barely raised her head, so I asked her if she was ok. After the longest time she said something about finishing. Retiring for good. She must have been about 50 years old, and looked every one of her years.

We got chatting, and Honeysuckle talked about her many years on the road. She said she knew her act was bawdy, rude. Lewd even.

Honeysuckle said: “I’ve always done it because I like to entertain people. Make them happy.

“I used to think I was in on the joke, but now I wonder if that was ever the case. I just seem to be the joke.

“And sometimes I just wonder how I got here”.

 Rasa says:  We all wonder that at times.  Remember Jesus on the Cross, dying, said,

“My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?”

 That is called the ‘dark night of the soul’, when our life is clothed in doubt.  What did I live for?  Why did I do what I did?  Only God knows.  God really does know, we know in part.  We did what we had to do to survive & we did what we had to do to help others, whatever way we could.

PS  People do not give credit to Betty Jane & myself for the event in front of the White House – as if it meant nothing, like it was some sort of publicity stunt – as if the results that came out of it had nothing to do with the speech. , the assumption being, God would not choose a stripper & a porno lady to do ‘His’ work.

However, God has often chosen the most lowly of people – the poorest of the poor, those who are unlettered, unrecognized, un-heralded, unknown, with no credentials, education or prestige.  Some examples:

St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin {‘Eagle Messenger’} is known for receiving the vision of Our Lady of Guadalupe.   Born in 1474 in Cuautlitlán, Mexico.

 From Wikipedia:  Although not destitute, he was neither rich nor influential.^[g] His religious fervor, his artlessness, his respectful but gracious demeanour towards the Virgin Mary and the initially skeptical Bishop Juan de Zumárraga, as well as his devotion to his sick uncle and, subsequently, to the Virgin at her shrine – all of which are central to the tradition – are among his defining characteristics and testify to the sanctity of life which is the indispensable criterion for canonization.^[h

 

What about Bernadette Soubirous, who brought us Our Lady of Lourdes, whose shrine is visited by 5 million people a year?

By the time of the events at the grotto, the Soubirous family's financial and social status had declined to the point where they lived in a one-room basement, formerly used as a jail, called le cachot, "the dungeon", where they were housed for free by her mother's cousin.

 

And what of Lucia, Francisco & Jacinta?  What prestige, education & accomplishments distinguished them in Portugal, 1917?  Why did God choose them to bring this Fatima message of repentance & World Peace when Lucia {& the others} could not even read or write?

Wikipedia:  Between May and October 1917, Lúcia and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto reported visions of a luminous lady, who they believed to be the Virgin Mary, in the Cova da Iria fields outside the hamlet of Aljustrel, near Fátima, Portugal.^[10] The children said the visitations took place on the 13th day of each month at approximately noon, for six straight months. The only exception was August, when the children were detained by the local administrator. That month they did not report a vision of the Lady until after they were released from jail, two days later.

According to Lúcia's accounts, the lady told the children to do penance and to make sacrifices to save sinners. Lúcia said that the lady stressed the importance of saying the Rosary every day, to bring peace to the world.^[11] Many young Portuguese men, including relatives of the visionaries, were then fighting in World War I. Lúcia heard Mary ask her to learn to read and write because Jesus wanted to employ her to convey messages to the world about Mary, particularly the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Lúcia's mother did not take kindly to the news that her youngest daughter was having visitations, believing that Lúcia was simply making up lies for attention. Heretofore the favorite, Lúcia, suffered beatings and ridicule from her mother. She was especially incredulous of the idea that Lúcia had been asked to learn to read and write.

 

          And there you have it, three of the greatest visionaries chosen by God, in the humblest stations of life – people who are not taken seriously or given a high standing in society.  There were many others like that – The Holy Mother has appeared numerous times to people for answer to prayer & in time of the greatest travail.  The Website Woman Thou Art God has an account of these:

 

https://womanthouartgod.com/mary.php

 

          And there you have it – how God chooses is not the way the world does.  Betty Jane & I, do we have high stations in life as members of the adult trade?  To some, those in our business are rendered ‘Untouchables,’ the lowest of the low, unfit as members of ‘polite & moral society.’  But God looks at the heart.  If you dig deeper under the façade of ‘sinfulness’  you’d see that both Betty Jane & I are open hearted to God, doing the things God asks like praying the rosary, going to Holy communion & being kind to others. We were chosen for our hearts, {the value inside} not our professions.  {End Chapter 5}