Joe Exotic's TV producer Rick Kirkham has revealed that his experience at the zoo caused him to wet himself twice because he feared for his life.
Kirkham spent a year living alongside Joe and his two then-husbands John Finlay and Travis Maldonado filming their web series and a TV show that was never to be.
Related - President Trump says he will take a look at Joe Exotic's request for a pardon:Now, Kirkham has revealed what viewers of the hit Netflix docuseries didn't see, as he took part in an interactive live-stream with All Things Live hosted by journalist Per Sundnes on April 11.
But prior to this, the 61-year-old opened up to the Metro about what it was like to work at the park, explaining that more than once, things got so scary that he lost control of his bladder.
He said: "There was an incident one time… It literally had two of us pee our pants, it scared us so bad. I don't know if you've ever been that frightened, where you lose control of your body and pee in your pants.
"I did it twice in the year I lived in that park. There were two occasions."
While Kirkham didn't give up all of his stories prior to the live stream, without context, he revealed that Joe pulled his gun on him on various occasions.
"If he had to pull his gun and shoot at you, he'd do it. He shot at me three times," he continued.
"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?'
"There was one time… 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. 'Scared the hell out of you, ha ha ha, next time I’ll get you between the eyes. Don't mess with me.'"
The footage Kirkham captured for his documentary was destroyed in a fire at the zoo, an event that features in the docuseries. At the time, he said he thought he was "going to make a million dollars" by turning Joe Exotic into a household name.
If you haven't seen it yet, this is the trailer for Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness:He actually claimed that his footage would have been even more captivating than the Netflix documentary.
"My reality show would have been very similar to the Netflix documentary but it would have been wilder, much wilder," he said.
"I had footage that made the Netflix documentary look like a soap opera, compared to what I had. Mine would have been much wilder."
He said: "There were times that a tiger would escape the cage when tourists were coming through. And if you've ever stood and watched 200 people looking one direction at a tiger cage, and you see a tiger walking toward them, realizing this tiger is going to eat somebody…
"That's something you don't see every day and I saw it, I videotaped it. There were all kinds of things that couldn’t possibly be shown in the Netflix documentary.
"I knew when I saw it that I had a reality show. The sad thing is, after I'd been there three or four months, I began to see the cruelty of Joe Schreibvogel. I'd already got myself involved and I was too far in to back out. I looked the other way while he would kill some of these animals, and really destroy some people’s lives on that park."
"But those are the stories that I can tell. That's why we're doing this big broadcast," he added. "Once I get going, I'm not going to stop. I want to get all of it out of my system and I'm going to put Joe Exotic away."
And if you can't get enough of Tiger King, Netflix has just dropped a new episode today!
