Former Sydney journalist Amanda Goff has opened up about being Samantha X, a high-class escort who charges $800 an hour to $5,000 a night for sex.

The 40-year-old mum of two recently appeared on “Sunday Night” program on Channel 7 to promote her book “Hooked – Secrets of a High-Class Escort,” and has exposed her identity to the public in the process.

Goff worked for a number of TV programs and magazines in the past, including as acting editor of New Idea, and as beauty editor of InStyle and Prevention. She was also a presenter on “Today Tonight” current affairs show on Seven.

She transitioned into the sex industry in 2012 after visiting a brothel once during her lunch break from work. Two days later, she was at an exclusive Sydney brothel to have sex with men for many. She shifted to private escorting a year and a half later.

She juggles her life as a mother and as a sex worker by spending one week with her children, and the next in a luxury apartment in CBD, where she works as Samantha X.

The divorced mum, who gets paid to have sex with men, even those who are already married, said she is actually in an empowering job for women.

“We meet, we talk, we have sex, I leave,” she described her job to interviewer James Thomas. As a result of selling sex, she became a “more confident, more empowered woman.”

“As long as we’re not hurting anyone,” she claimed to “Kyle & Jackie O” radio show, adding that her job isn’t all about sex all the time.

“A lot of men have told me about putting their dogs down and I’ve wiped away a lot of tears. They’re paying for my time. So what they do in that time is really up to them,” Goff explained. “I have champagne and beer, but they often want a cup of tea.”

Also, Goff insisted that she isn’t helping her married clients commit adultery. In fact, she helps them become happier husbands since she gives them an escape outlet from their normal lives.

As for what her kids know, she just told them that she’s a journalist and “she makes sad people feel happy.”

Although she faces criticisms for exposing her identity to the public, which, by extension, could hurt her kids, who are both under the age of seven, she reasoned out that even those children whose parents aren’t in the sex industry are being teased mercilessly.

“I think the world is changing. My kids are in classes with kids that have gay parents, lesbian mothers, they are not ridiculed.”

Her children may not know what she really does, but her London-based parents and her former partner, with whom she shares custody of her children, do, and they don’t approve of her career change.

Her parents told her that she disgusts her, while her ex-husband told her, “Are you effing serious?”

For now, Goff has no plans to stop.

“When I’m ready to fall in love, that’s when I stop.”

Her former colleague wasn’t surprised to learn of her double life, though.

“I’m not shocked at all – she’s always been a bit close to the edge. She follows her own rules,” her former co-worker told the Daily Mail Australia. “And I’m not surprised she’s going on TV and saying it’s her – I think she’s always secretly wanted to be famous. I think she’s always wanted a life that’s bigger than what she had. To be famous and rich. And using something to catapult her into the limelight.”

“Hooked – Secrets of a High-Class Escort” is released on September 1 by publisher Random House Australia.