Her real name is Elizabeth R. Deans. Gauge entered the porn industry in 1999, at the age of eighteen. She had been dating porn actor, Mojo and ended her relationship with him in November 2001. Gauge was a guest on "Howard Stern" (1994) on July 24, 1998, her eighteenth birthday. She almost died of alcohol poisoning in a Arkansas strip club in April 2005. In 2005, she decided to take a break and left the industry. But after several years Gauge decided to return to porn in August 2013 at age 33.