Pennsatucky is growing on us this season of Orange Is The New Black (yes, some of us don’t know what happens at the end because we’ve trying to slooowwwwly watch all of it instead of gulping it all down in one go). But it transpires that the love for Pennsatucky and Taryn Manning, the actress who plays her, has got seriously ugly.
Because she’s got a stalker in the form of Jeanine Heller. Heller has been e-mailing and texting Taryn which violates a restraining order. Not only that, but Heller has recently been let off of prison time on the condition she didn’t contact Taryn.
‘I view your relationship with a computer the way I view a heroin addict's with heroin,’ criminal court judge Ann Scherzer said to Heller, who has spent 45 days in prison for harassing Taryn. ‘You cannot be in a room with a computer. You cannot be in a house with a computer. You cannot visit someone with a computer. Your parents cannot use a computer on your behalf.’
Heller’s attorney says, reports Page Six, that the court neither put his client on probation and that if Taryn has got proof the anonymous emails are from Heller then she needs to say so in court.
Meanwhile, Taryn’s rep had this to say about the situation: ‘For over a year and a half, Taryn has endured consistent harassment, stalking, been falsely arrested, constantly accused, by a woman who used and manipulated the internet, the press and the justice system in anyway possible to attack her.
Taryn says that all she wants as the outcome here is to see this woman get the help she so desperately needs, and to have her, her family and friends, be finally left alone.’
There’s liking Orange Is The New Black, right, and there’s wanting to actually be Morello…let’s hope for everyone’s sakes that, when Heller returns to court on July 1, the judge figures out a way of making sure she leaves Taryn well alone.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.