Dance Moms star Abby Lee Miller is opening up about the eight months she spent in prison after she was convicted on bankruptcy fraud charges. In a new interview, the choreographer explained that she was threatened by prison guards and staff. Click through the gallery for all the info on her incarceration and her ongoing cancer battle.
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Abby Lee told Good Morning America, “I was [threatened] by the guards, by the prison system, absolutely … only by the staff, by the guards.”
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“Where’s that dance lady? Where’s that TV star lady? We’re going to get her,” she claimed they said. The other inmates, she explained, didn’t worry her.
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Abby was sentenced to a year in prison on the bankruptcy fraud charges and was released after eight months in March 2018.
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“I was 10 minutes from dying. I was that close to dying,” she said about her cancer during the GMA interview. “I was paralyzed from the neck down. … That cancer, this lymphoma, was choking my spinal cord.”
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Dance Moms returns Tuesday, June 4.
Abby Lee told Good Morning America, “I was [threatened] by the guards, by the prison system, absolutely … only by the staff, by the guards.”
“Where’s that dance lady? Where’s that TV star lady? We’re going to get her,” she claimed they said. The other inmates, she explained, didn’t worry her.
Photo credit: INSTARImages
Abby was sentenced to a year in prison on the bankruptcy fraud charges and was released after eight months in March 2018.
“I was 10 minutes from dying. I was that close to dying,” she said about her cancer during the GMA interview. “I was paralyzed from the neck down. … That cancer, this lymphoma, was choking my spinal cord.”
Photo credit: INSTARImages
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Dance Moms returns Tuesday, June 4.