Carole Baskin during her stint on ABC's Dancing with the Stars. Photograph: Frank Ockenfels/ABC via Getty Images
“It’s been a weird dichotomy between walking around the sanctuary and it being just so quiet, and my personal life,” she says. “After
Tiger King, it was like being attacked for selfies by 40 or 50 people a day. [But] the only bad feedback was [from] people who could hide behind an email or phone — those people would scream obscenities about how they wanted to kill me and kill my family… and kill the cats. I’m like, ‘Why do you want to kill the cats?’”