Drama To The Highest Degree. Straight from the twisted mind of director (and Girlfriends founder) Dan O'Connell, Messed Up! Episode 6 features returning cast members Chanel Preston and Violet Starr, along with Vanessa Veracruz reprising her role as the dashingly handsome, and now ordained, Valentino. In a Girlfriends Films press release earlier this year, director O'Connell referred to the Vanessa/Valentino transformation as 'eerily extraordinary.'. This new entry to the appropriately titled 'Messed Up' series finds Chanel Preston welcoming church choir newcomers August Ames, Dolly Leigh, Jayden Cole, and Anya Olsen to the fold. And as the Psychodrama unravels, one by one, the girls succumbs to their curiosity about the unusual family Preston has worked so hard to create..