Carole Baskin wants to improve her image with "Dancing with the Stars"

Joe Exotic's Worst Enemy, Carole Baskin -

A visit to

to seduce?

Despite herself, Carole Baskin was imposed as the "villain" of

, the Netflix documentary which made the buzz at the beginning of the year and told the crazy journey of Joe Exotic, colorful zookeeper.

While the latter is currently imprisoned for having tried to have Carole Baskin murdered, the animal rights activist was passed for a manipulator, who according to some sleuths of the web made her husband "disappear" several years ago for s 'seize his fortune.

Accusations that seem to have convinced this usually very smiling fifty-something that it was necessary to change the perception that the general public had of her.

“Tiger King made people who abuse animals glamor and made me look bad, so I felt betrayed.

What stunned me was how many people believed in this bad image of me without trying to figure out who I really am.

It's been a nightmare since the broadcast, ”she explained on Good Morning America.

Defend the felines

Carole Baskin has another goal behind her participation in the ballroom dance show: she wants to talk about the cause she has defended for several decades, that of the defense of the big cats.

“I really hope that people's outlook will change but the most important thing for me is that the longer my partner and I stay in the competition, the more we can keep the big cats in the eyes of the spectators.

In my opinion, this is where

missed everything.

It should have been focused on the animals.

I hope Dancing With The Stars will, ”confessed the boss of Big Cat Rescue.

The new season of the American version of Dancing with the Stars will be broadcast from September 14.

Among the other participants, we will find actress Anne Heche, rapper Nelly, former basketball star Charles Oakley, or Monica Aldama, another Netflix documentary star, since she is the coach of the cheerleading team at the heart of

.

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