<P> Nicky Nichols (played by Natasha Lyonne)--A former drug addict, now Red's most trusted assistant, Nicky is witty and acerbic, with a loud mouth . She swiftly befriends both Piper and Alex, expressing curiosity about what happened between the two of them outside of prison . She is estranged from her mother, a wealthy but extraordinarily selfish socialite who now lives in Brazil . When she was a child, Nicky was raised by a nanny and lived in a separate house from her mother . This estrangement was what initially led to Nicky's drug addiction . Upon arriving in prison, Red had helped her through her worst bouts of cold turkey . For this reason, Nicky has disowned her mother, and now looks up to Red as a mother figure, to the point where she openly calls her "mom" in the presence of other inmates, and Red in turn openly treats her as if she were her daughter . Nicky was involved in a friends - with - benefits relationship with Lorna until Lorna broke it off, which Nicky is bitter about for some time, but she later develops a brief interest in Alex . Nevertheless, Nicky continues to make numerous attempts to get back together with Lorna throughout the series, suggesting that her feelings for her may be romantic . Nicky has a scar on her chest from having heart surgery as a complication of a bacterial infection in her heart, which came from using a dirty needle . Having been clean for two years, Nicky uses sex with the other inmates as a coping mechanism, becoming something of a nymphomaniac in the process . During the second season, Nicky stages a sex - based point scoring competition with Big Boo, during which Nicky even makes advances on Officer Fischer . She gets revenge on Vee for Red's slocking by stealing her stash of heroin, causing her to again face her addiction . In the third season, she attempts to get the stolen heroin out of the prison . She decides to work with Luschek so he could sell it on the outside and split the profits with her . During a surprise inspection, drugs are discovered under Luschek's desk and he blames her for it, causing her to get sent to max . On her way out, she exchanges brief goodbyes with Lorna and Red, and as the prison van pulls up at the facility, Nicky expresses her satisfaction to Tiffany that she will never be able to hurt them or anyone she cares about again, lamenting that, even after kicking her drug addiction, she may never lose her self - destructive tendencies . In Season 4, Nicky is surviving in Max, and celebrates three years sobriety . She is initially shown ending a fling with Stella Carlin after discovering that she is using drugs again, but shortly after, falls off the wagon and starts using them herself . She has also been sending Luschek hate mail, and angrily castigates him when he comes to visit her, attempting to apologise . Eventually, with the help of Judy King, Luschek secures her return to the regular prison, and she has an emotional reunion with Red and Lorna . However, as a result of her relapse, she begins to steal from Red to purchase drugs from the various dealers across the prison, and at the same time makes numerous failed attempts to convince Lorna to restart their relationship . When Red confronts her and breaks down in tears at watching her adoptive daughter destroy herself, as happened with Tricia, Nicky reluctantly agrees to clean herself up again . Unbeknownst to her, Red uses her influence to get all of the prison drug dealers to cut Nicky off, while Pennsatucky provides her with emotional support . She concludes the season clean, however admits to Lorna that she is unhappy and a' junkie addict liar' . </P> <P> Tiffany "Pennsatucky" Doggett (played by Taryn Manning)--Doggett is a former drug addict (meth) originally from Waynesboro, Virginia . Her nickname is a reference to "Pennsyltucky," a slang term for poor rural areas in central Pennsylvania . Tiffany has very bad teeth due to drug abuse, and initially appears to be a fundamentalist Christian . Frequently preaching about God, her religious rants are often laced with racism and hostility . She also caused the ceiling of the prison's chapel to collapse when she tries to hang an oversized cross from an overhead pipe . For a period of time, Tiffany believed that she was blessed with "faith healing" abilities, after being tricked by the other inmates, and eventually gets sent to the psych ward when she attempts to forcibly "heal" a visiting paraplegic juvenile delinquent . Despite this, it is revealed Tiffany was sent to prison for shooting an abortion clinic worker in broad daylight for making a snarky comment about her having had five previous abortions . The local press believed that it was instead because of her religious beliefs--leading to her receiving funding, support, and even a fan base from some pro-life religious groups . </P> <P> Tiffany dislikes Piper after she is placed on the WAC committee despite Piper not having run for the position, and also has a long - running hostile relationship with Alex, with the two of them clashing frequently . Although it is Piper who gets Tiffany released from the psych ward, Tiffany declares a violent vendetta against Piper, eventually attempting to kill her after Piper rebuffed her religious beliefs, but instead Piper beats her up badly . After the beating she appears to have gotten over her vendetta, presumably because Piper's beating allowed her to get a new set of porcelain teeth at the expense of the prison . Tiffany loses her religious fervor, becoming more easy - going and moderate in her beliefs after attending regular counseling sessions with Healy . Nevertheless, her old friends are now unafraid to stand up to her, and abandon her, leaving her on her own . Ultimately, she finds an unlikely friend in Big Boo, who has also been abandoned by her friends, and Tiffany subsequently cuts her hair short on Boo's advice . </P> <P> After the prison's van is stolen, Tiffany replaces Lorna as the prison's van driver and begins a friendship with Charlie "Donuts" Coates, a new guard who initially seems friendly but exhibits unsettling behavior when they are alone . Later, after Coates gets reprimanded by Caputo and put on probation for missing count, he rapes Tiffany in the prison van . Through flashbacks, it is shown she has a warped view of sex due to her upbringing, having prostituted herself for six - packs of soda, and that she was repeatedly raped in the past to the point she no longer fights back . At one point Tiffany had developed a non-abusive romance with a boy called Nathan, but the relationship ended after he was forced to move away with his parents to Wyoming . Big Boo - now her closest friend - devises a plan to get revenge for Coates' actions, but they decide not to go through with it . In order to prevent future rapes, Tiffany fakes a seizure while driving and gets off van detail . However, she sees that Maritza Ramos is her replacement, realizing that she may have provided Coates with a more naive and vulnerable victim . </P>

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