Looking Back ‘Chimp Crazy’ Star Tonia Haddix’s History as Self-Proclaimed ‘Dolly Parton of Chimps’

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looking back chimp crazy star Tonia had' history as self-proclaimed Dolly Parton of chimps Tonia haddix's passion for chimpanzees is the subject of Max's chimp crazy docu series but she doesn't feel it as accurate dot as far as overall the documentary I just feel like that it's really cheeky and pretty scripted and definitely not accurate she told Australian radio's Carrie in Tommy show in a Thursday August 29th interview in the documentary the first episode was released earlier this week had refers to herself as the Dolly Parton of chimp since she has claimed to own at least seven monkeys in her lifetime one of her pet chimps was Tonka best known for Hollywood roles in Brendan Fraser George of the Jungle and Allan Cummings buddy. Tonka and I just found each other hacks gushed and chimp crazy it was meant to be it was just natural and Tona loved me as much as I love Tonka coming 59 also appeared in the dock after co-starring with the animal in the 1997 film people fall in love with these chimps and you can't tame wild things the Scottish actor said in a trailer when you're in love your brain is out of control there's chemicals and hormones and things happening to you that makes you irrational that hadex is ownership of Tonka soon sparked controversy with Peta which tried to rescue the mammal Peta sued the Missouri primate Foundation where heex kept her pets in 2017 over its conditions hadex was named in the lawsuit for helping the organization I stepped up and was willing to come out there and provide that care and provide the financial support to these chimpanzees so that they could remain at the only home that they know had ex told a local Fox affiliate at the time hadex and Peter reached an agreement in 2020 that she could retain ownership of The Chimps including Tonka so long as she upgraded the Missouri primate Foundation facility she did not meet the conditions and a judge held her in contempt of court all seven of her chimps were ordered to be transferred out of haddix's care hadex then claimed in 2021 that Tonka died in a bid to avoid handing it over to the nonprofit she was later ordered to pay Peta $225,000 in legal fees for faking tonka's death all of the chimps were remain handed to the Center for great apes in Florida the next year Tonka was transferred to the state save the chimp Sanctuary after filming the doc hadex told Inside Edition in 2022 that she believes that the chimp crazy documentarians wanted to create more drama and sent the anonymous tip that led us Marshalls to swarm her house and find Tonka alive in her basement dot they wanted a magnificent ending to their story so that they could get that $60 million off of that documentary she claimed they lied to me from the get-go hadock now works as an exotic animal broker in Sunrise Beach Missouri where she lives with husband Jerry Aswan who owns a mobile petting zoo hadex married a swegan in 2021 one year after the death of her late first husband Gary dadx is also mother to adult children Justin and Erica once claiming that she loved the chimps more than her son and daughter I've never seen her that passionate about anything in my entire life ever Justin quipped in the documentary and that includes her own son following the release of chimp crazy hadex told Australia's Carrie and Tommy show that she felt misunderstood as for her actions she said I definitely have regrets at that time I was just desperate and I didn't know what else to do to be honest with you it wasn't thought out dot she also claimed that a chimp attack portrayed in the documentary was not real I can self assure you that I've never been injured by a chimpanzee ever she declined to explain how she was injured adding I just feel like that whole situation was scripted chimp crazy is now streaming on max

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