Joe Unique — “Tiger King” star and 2024 US presidential hopeful — declared in a brand new interview that the Netflix sequence that made him a family identify promoted a “conspiracy” that he tried to kill Carole Baskin.

“Properly, to begin with, I didn’t do ‘Tiger King,’” Unique, 60, advised TMZ by telephone Friday from his Texas jail after the outlet requested if he regretted taking part within the docuseries. “Did ‘Tiger King’ spoil my life? Completely.”

He continued: “I used to be filming just a bit tiger present in 2016 and 2017, after which Netflix and [‘Tiger King’ director] Eric Goode and all of them turned this into this conspiracy that killed (sic) Carole Baskin to make a present.”

Unique gained worldwide fame from the 2020 docuseries, which showcased his work and private life as he sorted unique huge cats at his G.W. Zoo in Wynnewood, Oklahoma.

Unique was arrested in September 2018, within the midst of filming, and accused of making an attempt to rent two males to homicide fellow huge cat collector Baskin, who had labeled Unique an animal abuser.

Prosecutors stated he provided $10,000 to an undercover FBI agent throughout a December 2017 assembly to carry out the killing.

For his half, Unique alleged Baskin killed and fed her ex-husband, Don Lewis, to her tigers. Lewis was declared legally useless years in the past, and Baskin has not been charged in his disappearance.

Unique stated Friday he has since forgiven Baskin, the proprietor of the Large Cat Rescue sanctuary in Tampa, Florida.

Unique was convicted in 2019 and sentenced to 22 years in jail on 17 federal prices of animal abuse and two counts of tried murder-for-hire.

He was additionally convicted of wildlife violations tied to killing 5 tigers, promoting tiger cubs and falsifying information. His sentence was lowered by one 12 months in January 2022, bringing him to a 21-year time period.

“Tiger King” began filming in 2014 and featured jail telephone calls with Unique in January 2020.

“Something you noticed me in was actual filming that I filmed on the zoo,” Unique claimed to TMZ. “Every thing they filmed after 2018 once I obtained arrested was all pre-setup, and we’ve proof that they had been all paid to say what they stated.”

The Submit has reached out to Netflix for remark.

TMZ reported Unique, who’s allegedly battling bladder most cancers, has signed a do-not-resuscitate order.

He claimed Friday he could be “the primary presidential candidate to die in federal jail.”

“Folks might imagine that this can be a joke for me being sick and me working for workplace from right here, but it surely’s not,” stated Unique, a libertarian.

“I’ve some extraordinarily main influencers which might be my endorsers and on-line information tabloids and every thing else that’s backing me for this.”

Unique additionally ran as an impartial candidate within the 2016 US presidential election. He acquired fewer than 1,000 votes nationwide.

He stated he walks two miles and does a pair hundred push-ups and several other hundred leaping jacks every day as he tries to remain optimistic whereas affected by melancholy.

He’s hoping for a brand new trial with “new proof,” and if he was launched from jail early he would marry his fiancé, Seth Posey, and embark on a live performance tour.