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Abby Lee Miller before heading to prison: 'What I did was wrong'

Two weeks ago, former “Dance Moms” star Abby Lee Miller reported to the Victorville Federal Correctional Institution in California, where she is serving a 366-day sentence.

Ahead of her prison term, she sat down with The View co-host Jedidiah Bila for

which aired Tuesday night on Lifetime,

in People magazine.

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“I made lots of mistakes,” said the former Penn Hills resident. “The number one mistake being trusting other people with my money.”

In October 2015, Miller was charged with attempting to hide $775,000 of income from the Lifetime series and projects during Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. Miller, who allegedly hid the money in secret bank accounts between 2012–13, pled guilty to bankruptcy fraud in June 2016.

In May, she received a sentence of one year and one day in federal prison, followed by two years of supervised release. She was additionally fined $40,000 and ordered to pay the $120,000 judgment, as well as give a DNA sample relating to her felony charge.

Although Miller attempted to explain her reasoning to Bila for opening up several other financial accounts, she admitted, “I was stupid, uneducated, didn’t do the research myself. I was in the wrong. What I did was wrong.”

For more about the special and Miller’s fears of prison, read the