Orange Is the New Black star Taryn Manning arrested for threatening alleged stalker

IT’S a case of life imitating art. Taryn Manning, who plays crazed prisoner Pennsatucky in Orange in the New Black, has been arrested for threatening her former friend.

TARYN Manning, who plays Pennsatucky in the Netflix prison drama Orange in the New Black, has been arrested for violating a restraining order and threatening her accused stalker.

TMZ reports the 36-year-old actress had been ordered to stay away from Jeanine Heller, a former friend, after the two ended up in court and a judge issued a mutual domestic restraining order.

Back in September, Heller was arrested for violating the protection order when she called and emailed the OITNB star. Now, police have confirmed Manning was arrested Wednesday afternoon in Manhattan, but the District Attorney has already “declined to prosecute” the star.

Prior to her arrest, Manning had allegedly been sending Heller threatening texts in violation of another restraining order that was put in place to protect Heller.

Court documents obtained by TMZ said the messages included, “I will kill you, b*tch,” “Go f*ck yourself and die,” and “What’s taking so long? Shouldn’t you be dead by now?”

Actress Taryn Manning has denied there were any charges against her.

Manning’s lawyer has released the following statement:

“The District Attorney declined to prosecute Ms. Manning and the arrest was voided. The allegation was false. It is unfortunate that additional false allegations by an individual convicted of violating orders of protection intended to protect Ms. Manning are facilitated by purported news organizations to perpetuate the harassment of Ms. Manning exponentially.”

Manning has also tweeted about the incident.

There are no charges against me 😊This is just further harassment. It is troubling that the system can be used to abuse the actual victim 👎👎👎

— tarynmanning (@TarynManning) November 19, 2014

I could go on any media outlet and tell the real story but I'd rather save my time and energy for things that really matter. All will unfold

— tarynmanning (@TarynManning) November 19, 2014

The cast of Netflix series Orange is the New Black.

Originally published as Orange Is the New Black star Taryn Manning arrested for threatening alleged stalker