Joe Exotic has become quite a star on the back of Netflix's documentary series Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madnesss - but that fame means little as he currently serves a prison sentence.
The show has become a major hit in Ireland and elsewhere and focuses on Exotic - whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage - and his life as a zookeeper, locked in a long-running feud with fellow big cat enthusiast Carole Baskin.
The 57-year-old was jailed in April 2019 and is currently serving 22 years for 17 counts of animal abuse and a murder-for-hire plot against Baskin, who runs her own sanctuary in Tampa, Florida.
In a new interview with Netflix, Exotic says: "I'm done with the Carole Baskin saga. It's now time to turn the tables and Joe gets out of jail a free man and exonerated from all these charges."
"You know it would be nice if I could actually see me being famous out there, but I've seen these same four walls for a year and a half now," he added.
His time spent incarcerated has also given him some insight into how he treated his animals.
"Go sit in a cage with your animals for a week," he said. "I mean, when I left the zoo and I sent my chimpanzees to the sanctuary in Florida and imagined what my chimpanzees went through for 18 years, I'm ashamed of myself."
He also added that the experience of prison time will not change him.
"When I walk out of here am I going to be as crazy as I was before? That will never change!" he insisted.
