SAGAL: You ended up pleading guilty to charges of money laundering and went off to Danbury state prison. SAGAL: And to make a long and ultimately profitable story short. KERMAN: Many years later, the thunderous - it was actually a doorbell, but. But then, some years later, there was a knock on your door. And then you extricated yourself from that relationship and that life. KERMAN: I have no claims of innocence on this. SAGAL: And, just to be clear, you knew this was not, like, legit. KERMAN: She asked me to carry a bag of money from Chicago to Brussels. And you had a friend who asked you to do this errand of bringing some money, which was ill-gotten. You were a young woman living, as we say, fancy free. SAGAL: And I feel - I mean, I of course believe that everybody knows your story but maybe not, so let's go through it briefly. And yeah, I've been living here in Ohio for almost five years. By the way, is it all right that we tell people that you're here in Ohio? Are you still on the run? I mean, I don't know what your status is. She now spends more time in prison here in Ohio teaching writing to inmates. But you know all that because she wrote a book about her experience called "Orange Is The New Black," which was adapted into the hit Netflix series. She ended up serving a year in a women's prison. Piper Kerman was a happy-go-lucky young woman when she just happened to happily go to Europe with some drug money and got unlucky. And now the game where we ask people who've been through a lot to go through something else.
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