Former Bloomberg News reporter Christie Smythe says she fell down the rabbit hole in ditching her job and husband for Martin Shkreli , the reviled pharma bro whos serving seven years in prison for hedge-fund fraud.

Smythe covered Shkrelis arrest in December 2015 and told Elle in an interview published online Sunday that they began dating after he was behind bars in 2018.

I fell down the rabbit hole, she said. Im happy here. I feel like I have purpose.

Shkrelis infamy exploded in September 2015 when his company jacked up the price of an AIDS drug from $13.50 per pill to $750.

Smythe explained how she was charmed by a master manipulator. Prison visits became more intimate they exchanged I love yous, though the two have never slept together, the magazine noted. Smythe even froze her eggs, though she expects a relationship with him will be messy and difficult.