Journalist and TV producer Rick Kirkham is opening up to “Extra’s” Billy Bush about what you didn’t see in “Tiger King,” and shedding some light on what life with Joe Exotic was really like.
Fans will recall, Rick spent five years filming a reality TV show with Joe, and the footage famously burned in a studio fire on the zoo grounds.
Billy asked Rick who set the fire. “He blamed me,” Kirkham said, adding, “He blamed anybody and everybody but himself, but the bottom line is two days before the studio fire, he and I got into an argument over the fact that I had a contract with him to make the reality show.
He was so upset. He made an immediate departure, said, ‘I’m gone from the park for a couple of days.’ He changed the locks on the studio.
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