Lorraine Toussaint will not be reprising her role as villainous Vee on Orange Is the New Black Season 3, Netflix confirmed.
TMZ reported this morning that Litchfield's biggest bully was back on set filming today. But Netflix refuted those claims, stating, "She is not going to be in season 3."
Season 2 ended with Vee's fate unknown. After escaping the prison through a drain pipe in the greenhouse overseen by Galina "Red" Reznikov (Kate Mulgrew), the felon was hit by Miss Rosa (Barbara Rosenblat) - who was also escaping the prison via a stolen van - when she swerved off the road just enough to hit Vee head on and throw her over the front of the car. Rosa kept driving. "Always so rude, that one," Rosa said.
Toussaint couldn't confirm if Vee was dead or alive after Season 2 aired. "We're not sure if Vee is dead," Toussaint said in a statement from a report. "She could be dead, she could not be dead. That's an open-ended question still. Isn't that a scary proposition? She might need to be dead. I don't know."
But according to our sources, Toussaint will be reporting for filming Tuesday morning in New York. It's unclear if Vee will be alive and well or merely appearing in one of the show's flashbacks.
And while Vee's life will hang in the balance, at least for another season, the inmates can rest a little easier in their orange jumpsuits knowing the brutal manipulator won't be back at Litchfield this year.
