Wolters barely clears 5-foot-2 and bears little resemblance to Prepon: she’s a former smoker who, at 49, had a 5-way bypass after suffering a heart attack. “I thought she was the coolest thing since Wonder Bread,” says Wolters. Everett Collection Piper Chapman, left, reunites with Cleary Wolters. Actresses Laura Prepon, left, and Taylor Schilling play real-life felons Cleary Wolters and Piper Chapman in “Orange Is the New Black,” as seen below. She began streaming the first episode and, initially, was thrilled: Laura Prepon, the statuesque actress from “That ’70s Show,” was playing Wolters - who’d been renamed Alex Vause. It was 6:30 on a Friday evening she’d rushed home from her job as a senior software test analyst, where only her boss knew of her past. “And I thought this was the other shoe.”Īfter seeing the ad, Wolters - who couldn’t contact Kerman for as long as she was on parole - sat down in front of her home computer. “When you get out of prison, you’re waiting for the other shoe to drop,” Wolters tells The Post. In “Out of Orange,” Wolters, now 53, tells her version of ex-lover Piper’s story, itself a memoir before it was adapted for television: In real life, Wolters was convicted of drug smuggling in 2003 and spent nearly six years in prison her ex-girlfriend, WASP princess Piper Kerman (Chapman on the show) was convicted of drug trafficking and money laundering and spent 13 months in jail. This was a new series on Netflix called “Orange is the New Black.” It was also her life. Then, one night, she caught an ad for an upcoming TV show: “Piper Chapman. She was living quietly in Cincinnati, and almost no one knew her history. Three years ago, Cleary Wolters was an ex-con on parole who was just trying to keep her life together.

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