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How True To The Facts Is "Orange Is The New Black"?

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As devotees know, the addictive prison drama Orange is the New Black is based on Piper Kerman's memoir of her time behind bars on drug charges.

But now, the woman whom Laura Prepon's Alex is based on is claiming the show takes some serious liberties with the facts.

Talking to Vanity Fair, Catherine Cleary Wolters explained:

We did not have sex in prison.  Not even a little bit ... I was not Piper’s first, and I certainly did not seduce her ... When we were traveling together I started developing a crush on her. And eventually that turned into a crazy mad love affair, but that was after she had already done the deed that made her complicit...

We were ghosts of the humans we had once been, milling about amongst hundreds of other human ghosts, shackled and chained, prodded through transport centers at gunpoint, moved through holding facilities.

Wolters says the subplot involving both women turning narc to the Feds, however, was accurate:  "Yes, I named her, she named me, and we all named each other—fact was, we all thought we were doing the right thing, confessing, getting protection, and saving ourselves from certain death at the hands of a Nigerian drug lord who we knew would soon find we had all been arrested."

Despite any inaccuracies, Wolters, 51, still enjoys watching the show: "Who doesn’t want to see Donna from That ’70s Show have lesbian sex?"

Point taken.

Orange Is The New Black season 2 will premiere on Netflix in it's entirey on June 6.

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