Tiger King producer Rick Kirkham has alleged that he was shot at three times by Joe Exotic during the making of the show.
The hit Netflix series documents the extraordinary life of zookeeper Exotic and features appearances from Kirkham, who spent more than a year living with him to film footage for the show.
"If he had to pull his gun and shoot at you, he'd do it. He shot at me three times," Kirkham told Metro. "Sometimes we'd be sitting in a TV studio, and somebody would say something he didn't like, and he'd take his gun out and shoot it right through the wall of the TV studio, saying 'You want to f**k with me?'
"The first time he shot at me, I had no idea, I just heard this loud pop and it scared the hell out of me. I turned around, and his gun was still smoking. He shot at my feet and he's just laughing his ass off.
"I watched him shoot several animals just because he was p***ed off. He had 12 acres on that park that he was God. And what he said, that was the law of the land."
Exotic is currently serving a 22-year prison term for charges including animal cruelty and a plot to murder his long-term rival Carole Baskin.
Neil Wilkes
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