>> After a tumultuous couple of
years away, Abby Lee Miller is
back for season eight of dance
moms.
Abby Lee Miller joins us from
New York.
Hello, over there.
>> Hello, how are you?
>> Scott and I were just saying,
you told us you would never go
back to this show.
You were done.
>> You were done, bye-bye, what
happened?
>> New producers.
>> That will do it.
>> And a new Abby Lee, or what's
the vibe going to be?
Because that looks the season to
me.
>> You literally say, and I'm
meaner tn ever.
I'm coming for you.
>> Well, yes.
Of course.
Somebody has to be tough on
these kids, you know.
Their parents can let them get
away with everything.
I have to hold them accountable.
Accountable for their legs and
their feet and their splits and
the choreography and everything.
>> It's a formula that just
works on this show.
We need you in that.
It's the special sauce in the
recipe that's needed.
Also last time we spoke to you,
it was right before your prison
sentence.
What happened in there.
We're hearing all of these
reports that they weren't all
that nice to you?
>> I read 150 books and I laid
in the sun.
I walked around the track, and I
was in great shape.
Then the prison doctor took me
off all of my medication cold
Turkey.
>> You say that -- you suffered
some abuse, there was bully
situations -- situations of
bullying, pulling eyelashes off.
>> That was day one.
So --
>> We're not talking about a row
of eyelashes.
We're talking about things
that --
>> I think they thought they
were the strips, but they
weren't.
They were extensions.
Ripping your earrings out of
your ears.
>> Did you report any of this
stuff?
>> Yes.
>> And nothing was done.
>> No.
But there were other situations
that I haven't talked about
publicly, things that went on,
and I did finally speaking to
our new warden and he was
phenomenal.
He was excellent.
He was well spoken.
He was nice to me.
He understood the situation.
He had read my case.
And he knew what was going on
and I think I did finally get
out in March because he was
there.
>> Abby, when you went into lock
up, I know that you worked with
someone to kind of prepare you
for that experience.
>> I had two different
consultants and I would say to
never do that.
Because they were completely
wrong on every single thing.
>> There's a prison consultant
you can hire?
>> Yes.
>> And what did they say to you?
>> They just told me all kinds
of things, when I get out, you
can't work for yourself, you
can't work for family.
You can't do this, buy anything.
That's for people who owe money
to the government or millions of
dollars.
I didn't.
I had paid everything before I
went in.
The day I was sentenced, I wrote
a lot of checks out.
>> Wow.
>> Did they tell you advice
before you go in?
>> Yes.
They tell you, you're allowed to
wear earrings and they have to
be a certain size and money that
you can sheet of paper that has
all of your contacts written
down on it.
My paper went missing in the
first hour I was there.
>> And then to be dealing with
all of that and be misdiagnosed,
to find out that you got a kind
of non-hodgkin's lymphoma, now
confined to a wheelchair.
How are you doing in life
outside of prison?
>> Life has been much better
outside.
But I went away for eight months
and then I feel like I want away
again when you go to Cedars.
It's pretty much comparable.
I had ten rounds of very
intensive chemotherapy, spinal
taps.
And it was rough.
Really rough.
>> I just want some calmness
somin
coming your way.
You look healthy and "Dance