Orange Is the New Black cast: The real-life relationships away from the show

December 11, 2019

All seven seasons of Orange Is the New Black are available to stream and download on Netflix now. The series followed the love story between Piper Chapman (played by Taylor Schilling) and Alex Vause (Laura Prepon) but there were some real romantic relationships away from the show.

The real-life relationships away from the show

Samira Wiley and Lauren Morelli

Samira Wiley starred as Poussey Washington from seasons one to four of Orange Is the New Black and Lauren Morelli worked as a scriptwriter.

Wiley and Morelli began dating in autumn 2014 and married in March 2017 in Palm Springs.

Guests at the wedding including OITNB star Danielle Brooks (who plays Taystee on the show), who sang Sara Bareilles’ song I Choose You during the wedding, the song Morelli had played when she popped the question.

Wiley and Morelli honeymooned in Italy and are still together today.

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Morelli left her husband of two years to be with Wiley in 2014 and proposed in October 2016.

Speaking to Pink News, Wiley explained: “I remember those first months with her, trying to figure out her journey with her own sexuality.

“Feeling like she picked me as the person she was going to talk to about all of it. And it wasn’t sexual, it was just like a friend. There was something deeply intimate about that, whether there was sexual tension there or not.

“The deep intimacy of being two people talking about the core of who we are. Talking about our journeys.

“Not even necessarily flirting on set, but on the phone, thousands of miles apart, talking about ‘Who are we? And does this make me a different person? Does this actually make me who I am now?’

“That’s how we fell in love.”

Emily Tarver and Vicci Martinez

In July 2019, two Orange Is the New Black stars revealed they were in a relationship.

Emily Tarver who plays guard CO McCullough and Vicci Martinez who plays season six baddie Daddy announced they were dating.

Carver turned for OITNB season seven, where her character had a romantic relationship with Laura Prepon’s Alex Vause.

In season seven, Martinez’s character died early on from a drug overdose, deliberately caused by Daya (Dasha Polanco).

Their romance was confirmed by an Instagram post from Martinez, who posted a picture of them kissing.

It was captioned: “Happy Birthday to the woman of my dreeeeaaammmzzzz!!! Love? Unconditional. With you, I’m alive.

“Thank you for sharing your heart and your life and your joy and your funny and your everything!!! I love you #EmilyAnneTarverTheThird @emilytarver Ur my best friend.”

The couple also performs in a band together.

Speaking to The News Tribune, Martinex said: “We are super in love. And we have a music group together.

“She’s fulfilling my fantasy of doing duets together.”

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Piper Kerman and Catherine Cleary Wolters

Orange Is the New Black is based on the award-winning memoir by Piper Kerman titled Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison.

The memoir details her experiences at FCI Danbury, a minimum-security federal prison.

Kerman was previously in a relationship with Catherine Clearly Walters and the characters Piper Chapman and Alex Vause are through to be based on them respectively.

In an interview, Wolters confirmed that their real relationship was nothing like what portrayed on the show.

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Wolters said: “When we were travelling together I started developing a crush on her. And eventually, that turned into a crazy mad love affair.

“But that was after she had already done the deed that made her complicit. We weren’t girlfriends, We were friends with benefits… I was not the older sexy, glamorous lesbian who snatched her from her pristine Smith College cradle.”

In response to Wolters comments in Vanity Fair, Kerman said: “It should come as no surprise that we may have different points of view about the time we spent together.

“I think anyone would understand that my relationship with her was, and is, complicated.

“What I wrote about us in my book is true. If Cleary believes we were never girlfriends, that is startling news to me, though it’s certainly not the first time she has surprised me.”

OITNB is streaming on Netflix now.

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