What Abby Lee Miller Has Said About Her Experience In Prison

Abby Lee Miller quickly realized why it’s best to just pay your bills. In 2018, Miller spoke with Inside Edition and detailed the added stressors she dealt with while behind bars. “I have already been through the wringer,” said Miller. “The first day was the worst day for me. They tried to rip my eyelashes off that were extensions.” Miller also claimed that prison guards took a special interest in her because of her TV fame, but they would definitely not prove themselves to be fans. “I would have strange guards that were never in our unit, that I never saw before, walk in and ask other girls, ‘Hey, where’s that ‘Dance Moms’ lady? Where’s that dance lady? I am going to get her,’” said Miller. “Then they come to your locker, they take a can of red soda pop, shake it up, open it and spray it all over your clothes.”

Miller spoke more about the mistreatment she endured at the hands of prison guards in 2019, during an interview with the New York Post. The fiery dance instructor shared that she’d since developed PTSD, which is triggered by the sound of keys and other commotion. “The guards [in Victorville] were like, stupid-scary, and were just trying to intimidate me for no reason — just for their own idiotic pleasure, I guess,” she added. “The whole thing was so nonsensical.”