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CNN- Alice Marie Johnson’s life changed on Wednesday — and she has US President Donald Trump and Kim Kardashian West to thank.
And thank them she did as soon as she left an Alabama prison after 21 years behind bars.
“I feel like my life is starting over again,” an emotional Johnson told reporters outside the prison in Aliceville.
Trump commuted the first-time nonviolent drug offender’s life sentence on Wednesday, one week after Kardashian pleaded her case in an Oval Office meeting with the President.
Johnson admitted that she didn’t know much about Kardashian before the starlet became involved in her case. But, over time, they formed a bond, and Kardashian was the one to break the clemency news to Johnson in a phone call with her lawyers.
“I started screaming, and crying and jumping. I think I lost it for a moment,” Johnson recalled.
“I want to tell Kim, my angel, that you never gave up on me. You never gave up your fight. You were relentless and it has paid off beautifully for me and my family on this day.”
As for Trump, she said she wants him to know that she won’t let him down.
“I am going to make you proud that you gave me this second chance in life. And I will not disappoint the American public or the world that has so much faith in me,” Johnson told CNN.
“It means that someone finally saw me, someone finally heard me, someone had mercy on me — and that was President Trump, and so I’m so thankful for him and what he’s done.”
