'Orange Is the New Black' Season 3 News: Real-Life Larry Talks 'Last Supper' & Why Show Is 'Painful To Watch' [VIDEO]
The real life Larry Bloom for Netflix's Orange Is the New Black is releasing a new audiobook detailing the events of then fiancée Piper Kerman going to jail from his side of the story.
Kerman parlayed her story of surviving prison into a bestselling book and then having it be adapted into an award-winning Netflix series. Now, husband Larry Smith is hoping to share his own story from his point of view.
A new except from My Life With Piper: From Big House to Small Screen, Smith's new audiobook, was released on EW.com, in which he recounts the day he dropped Kerman off at prison.
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Smith talks about their "last supper" being some foie gras with the two of them watching The Big Lebowski together.
He then discusses what it felt like to see a reenactment of the day he dropped her off on the Orange Is the New Black TV show. While her last meal before being detained was different, Smith says everything was exactly the same.
"The scenes in the show of Larry Bloom dropping Piper Chapman off at prison are almost otherwise exactly as they happened," he says. "The words, the gestures, the goodbye kisses - they're painful to watch."
He then recounts the feeling he had for Piper and himself as they went their separate ways.
"When we drove to the gate, the guard assumed we were visitors and then seemed nonplussed when we told him she was there to self-surrender," he says. "In time, I would know that Piper was by and large okay and would learn how to do the job put before each prisoner: survive in there. I did not know that then; it was a sad and scary day for both of us."
Smith's audiobook is scheduled for release on Dec. 16.
Orange Is the New Black is currently available for streaming on Netflix, with the third season set for release in mid-2015.
