South Carolina killer mom Susan Smith told an unknown male over the phone that she “wouldn’t talk” to the media just weeks before she was ultimately disciplined behind bars for doing just that, according to prison calls newly obtained by Fox News Digital. 

The 53-year-old was denied parole on Nov. 20 after spending 30 years incarcerated – a decision that was made after she was found guilty of speaking with a documentary filmmaker, which was against prison rules. 

Smith was charged with communicating with a victim/and or witness of crime on Aug. 26 and was convicted on Oct. 3, Chrysti Shain, director of communications with the South Carolina Department of Corrections, previously told Fox News Digital.  

Less than two weeks before being charged with the incident, Smith told a male prison caller on Aug. 13 that she “got a letter from a woman,” who she said worked for a national media outlet, adding “I’ve already thrown it away, so I can’t even read it to you.”

Susan Smith was convicted on July 22, 1995 of murdering her two sons, 3-year-old Michael Daniel Smith and 14-month-old Alexander Tyler Smith. (Getty Images)

Susan Smith crying during her Nov. 20 parole hearing.

A board unanimously voted to deny Smith’s parole on Nov. 20 after she appeared emotional and crying on a jailhouse court feed during her hearing. 

“I know that what I did was horrible…I’m sorry that I put them through that…I wish I could take that back, I really do…I was just scared,” she said during the parole hearing. “I didn’t know how to tell the people that loved them that they would never see them again…I’m sorry, I know that’s not enough…just words, but they come from my heart.”

The reasons for the parole board’s denial were the nature and seriousness of the crime and Smith’s institutional record of offenses.