Tonia Haddix, star of the hit HBO documentary series “Chimp Crazy,” has been sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison after repeatedly lying to authorities about the fate of a chimpanzee named Tonka.

The 51-year-old Missouri woman had previously admitted to lying to a federal judge about the whereabouts of the animal.

As revealed in the Emmy-nominated series, Haddix told authorities that Tonka had died when she was actually hiding him in a cage in her basement. She also disobeyed a court order to surrender the chimp to the animal rights nonprofit PETA.

Haddix, who pleaded guilty to two counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice in March, was sentenced Thursday to 46 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.

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