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"There&amp;apos;s Jodi! Steven Avery&amp;apos;s former fianc&amp;#xE9;e Jodi Stachowski, who is featured in Netflix&amp;apos;s Making a Murderer,&amp;#xA0;speaks out in an exclusive new interview for HLN&amp;apos;s Nancy Grace, days after the show&amp;apos;s namesake host raised questions about the series during the Television Critics Association&amp;apos;s winter panel.Stachowski reached out to Nancy Grace&amp;apos;s producer,&amp;#xA0;Natisha Lance, to share her side of the story. Lance previewed the pre-taped interview on HLN&amp;apos;s morning program on Wednesday, January 13.In the preview, the two sit down face to face and discuss why Stachowski is suddenly choosing to speak out now. &amp;quot;It&amp;apos;s been 10 years,&amp;quot; Lance notes to her subject. &amp;quot;Why are you talking to me? What do you want people to know?&amp;quot;&amp;quot;The truth,&amp;quot; Stachowski replies. &amp;quot;What a monster he is, and he&amp;apos;s not innocent.&amp;quot;Though Stachowski defended Avery in the 10-part true-crime docuseries, she told HLN that she never loved her ex-fianc&amp;#xE9;. In fact, it was quite the opposite. &amp;quot;I ate two boxes of rat poison just so I could go the hospital,&amp;quot; Stachowski revealed to Lance. &amp;quot;And get away from him, and ask them to get the police to help me.&amp;quot;The news about the program&amp;apos;s exclusive interview with Stachowski was announced as Grace has made her opinion about Avery&amp;apos;s conviction loud and clear. This past weekend, Grace told reporters during a TCA panel that while she was a fan of Netflix&amp;apos;s series, she had other thoughts about the real-life situation.&amp;quot;It&amp;apos;s not what I think. It&amp;apos;s what I know,&amp;quot; she told Us Weekly and other reporters. &amp;quot;Steve Avery is guilty. He murdered Teresa Halbach. He and his nephew [Brendan Dassey] raped and murdered her. I love Making a Murderer. It&amp;apos;s beautifully put together, it&amp;apos;s just leaving out about 60 or 70 percent of the evidence. I don&amp;apos;t think our justice system should be on the shoulders of two film students. I remember interviewing Steve Avery while we were still looking for Teresa &amp;#x2026; My knowledge at that time and now is that he brutally murdered this girl. True, he was wrongly convicted on a previous charge, and that&amp;apos;s a miscarriage of justice too. But he killed Teresa Halbach.&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;(Prior to Halbach&amp;apos;s case in 2005, Avery spent 18 years behind bars for a sexual assault for which he was wrongly convicted.)Stachowski herself claimed in her HLN interview that the petitions to pardon Avery &amp;#x2014; after the wildly popular release of Making a Murderer &amp;#x2014; are why she&amp;apos;s speaking out now. &amp;quot;She says that the truth needs to come out,&amp;quot; Lance said on HLN&amp;apos;s morning show on Wednesday. &amp;quot;And she says that the documentary is full of a bunch of lies.&amp;quot;Stachowski&amp;apos;s full interview will air on HLN&amp;apos;s Nancy Grace on Wednesday night at 8 p.m. ET.&amp;#xA0;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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