Joe Exotic SCARED Of Tigers Biggest Tiger King Twist Revealed In New Episode

Joe Exotic SCARED Of Tigers? Biggest Tiger King Twist Revealed In New Episode

The new episode of Netflix’s true-crime phenomenon Tiger King includes a surprising claim that Joe Exotic is actually terrified of big cats.

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Joe Exotic SCARED Of Tigers Biggest Tiger King Twist Revealed In New Episode

The new episode of Netflix’s true-crime phenomenon Tiger King makes a very surprising allegation about the now-infamous Joe Exotic: that he’s actually terrified of big cats. In the space of less than a month, Netflix’s wild docuseries has become one of the year’s most talked-about pieces of pop culture. According to data released by Nielsen, the series was watched by 34.3 million people over its first 10 days of release, making it one of the most successful series released by Netflix up to this point in time.

It seems that audiences can’t get enough of the strange exploits of Joe Exotic and his many big cats. Heeding the call for more content, Netflix released an eighth episode of Tiger King: an after-show special hosted by Joel McHale (The Soup) that includes interviews with some of the documentary’s key players. Figures such as former zoo manager Saff, reality TV producer Rick Kirkham, and Erik Cowie, the current manager of the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park, discuss their feelings on the series, the aftermath of its success, and their true feelings on Joe Exotic, who is still behind bars serving a 22-year sentence for murder-for-hire and various wildlife charges.

Perhaps the most surprising reveal of the new Tiger King episode comes courtesy of Kirkham, the producer who formerly worked on Inside Edition and had moved on to the zoo with the intention of making a reality series about Joe Exotic. According to Kirkham, Joe Exotic the Tiger King is actually petrified of big cats. In the final segment of the show, McHale talks to Kirkham, who tells him:

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“The one thing that wasn’t pointed out in the docuseries that’s really important to know too: Joe was terrified of big cats. He was scared to death of lions and tigers. And in the shots that you see in there where he’s in with the two tigers, the white one and the other one, the white one is blind and the other one is on tranquilizers. It’s idiotic to think how he’s become famous as ‘the Tiger King’ when he’s so terrified of big cats.”

Kirkham, who now lives in Norway, also details one especially cruel incident where Joe took in a woman’s ageing horse and promised to let it live out its life on his land. Then, after she left, he immediately shot it in the head with a revolver to chop it up for tiger meat. This incident, Kirkham says, was all caught on video because Joe demanded it. In an interview with E! News, he said that Joe “wanted us to run the cameras 24 hours a day, and we did. We shot thousands of hours of things, and everything from him killing animals to abusing people, abusing animals…”

Tiger King was celebrated for its endless twists and surprises, but the idea that the entire conceit of the show was allegedly as much a lie as everything else going on in those seven episodes cannot help but boggle the mind. Kirkham’s claims suggest that Joe Exotic’s decades-long image as a big cat lover and expert was a façade created for public consumption. Not only that, but it was reliant on further exploitation and possible abuse of these animals who already faced massive amounts of cruelty and neglect at his hands. Kirkham is also asked by McHale if he regrets being involved with the series, to which he replies that he regrets ever meeting Joe Exotic. He also expressed guilt over never intervening or going to the authorities following the many times he witnessed Joe’s abuse and outright murder of animals.

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Given how heavily Tiger King has been criticized for being too gentle towards Joe Exotic and leaving too many incriminating incidents on the cutting-room floor, the after-show episode is a cold reminder that, ultimately, the true victims of this story are the animals who Joe Exotic abused and killed. The new final episode of Tiger King is available to watch now on Netflix.

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