Meet Lori Arnold, America’s queenpin and ‘the original Walter White’

Ahead of the release of Discovery+ docu-miniseries ‘The Queen of Meth’, Lori Arnold talks about lessons learned from addiction and introducing dangerous drugs to a quiet part of the American Midwest. She is also joined in the interview by her brother, actor Tom Arnold.

“You know, I was never scared,” starts Lori Arnold, ‘If anything, I felt empowered, respected, feared, and you feed into that kind of stuff. I was always a bad*ss, I like being a bad*ss. I liked running sh*t. I wanted people to look up to me, be scared of me. Selling came easy to me – I was the brains, and Floyd [my partner] was the muscle. But I would say that I’m more addicted to the power. That fed my ego. I want people to look up to me, respect me.” . If you do not know Lori Arnold, you may have gotten a little sense of ‘is this woman a drug dealer?’ Yes, Lori indeed was – in fact, she is known as ‘the original Walter White.’ Her journey from a young teenager being addicted to methamphetamines to her Midwest-wide drug empire as a grown woman is documented in a Discovery+ series aptly titled The Queen of Meth.