THEY say true love knows no bounds, and Lorra has found hers behind bars.
The 27-year-old met her husband in 2023 on a site that allows people to write to prisoners, and six weeks later the pair were engaged.
Lorra, whose name is Laura Gehrke, was stuck in Dubai over Christmas because a visa issue had prevented her from returning home to Germany.
Lonely and bored, she decided to go on writeaprisoner.com and wish them a merry Christmas.
“I saw on his profile he said he liked poetry and I was interested in that,” she recounted.
After messaging each other about poetry, the pair took their relationship cellular, regularly talking on the phone for up to 11 hours a day.
She’d also fly over to Washington on occasion to see her imprisoned pen pal face to face.
Now the Too Hot To Handle star speaks to Truly about how she ditched her luxury lifestyle for love.
She said: “Before, I had everything when it comes to like materialistic stuff and financial stuff, I was travelling the world I was like doing everything you could imagine but I never felt satisfied from within.
“That was because I needed love but since I found him I realised that that was what I was missing.”
Now, Lorra works in real estate, as she waits for Joshua Stewart to get out of prison.
She explained: “His current sentence is seven years.
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Lorra regularly flies out to Washington State in the US to see her man while she lives in Germany.
But she plans to move abroad soon so they can start a life together when he gets out of jail.
While romancing a convicted killer might seem unsavory, the prison wife said his crime didn’t change her “opinion of him” as she knew the “backstory.”
Lorra said: “I wasn’t immediately asking about the crime because I didn’t want to judge him just based on that.
“I was hearing a lot of stories about him growing up before I knew all the details about what he was incarcerated for.
“It made me see it all a bit differently.”
The pair even got secretly married in jail when she went to visit, just six months after the pair began speaking.
She said: “It was a prison marriage — one of the other inmates was his best man.
“We were all in white and had our own color theme. It felt super right.”
The pair are on the phone for hours every single day and Lorra even has a mini cushion of her man that she can snuggle with at night.
Now Lorra is busy working on a clothing line, addressing the nasty comments left by trolls such as “daddy issues” and “Mamma, I’m in love with a criminal”.
She shared: “We turned all the hateful comments into something positive.”
The YouTube video garnered a huge reaction from viewers who thought Lorra was bonkers for marrying the inmate.
One person wrote: “Sis, please have standards.”
Another commented: “As soon as he’s out of prison, this “relationship” will fall apart.”
“‘Real estate agent’ lool massive red flag right there,” penned a third.
Meanwhile a fourth said: “What a clown move.”
“I will keep my comments to myself,” claimed a fifth.
Someone else added: “Yep that won’t last.”
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