'The Good Nurse': What Happened to Amy Loughren and Where is She Now?

Despite being firmly in the true crime genre, the new Netflix movie The Good Nurse's focus is not on serial killer Charles Cullen, but on the woman who managed to persuade him to confess to his crimes: Amy Loughren.

At the time, Loughren was a night nurse suffering from cardiomyopathy, a heart condition that would be exasperated by the difficult work she did in her job which, according to the film, she could not afford to lose as she had to be in the role for a year before being granted health insurance.

Health insurance was essential for Loughren so she could have the heart surgery she so desperately needed, and it is revealed in the film that without it she could die.

Here is everything you need to know about Loughren and where she is now.

'The Good Nurse': What Happened to Amy Loughren and Where is She Now?

Loughren did help police with their investigation into her former friend Cullen, who she had grown close to during their time as co-workers at Somerset Medical Center in New Jersey.

Cullen came to work at the hospital in 2002 and he drew suspicion following the death of a patient in August 2003, though the hospital delayed contacting police until October of that year.

When police began their investigation, Loughren assisted them, and she was able to persuade Cullen to confess to killing patients from 1988 to 2003 at nine different hospitals. He is currently serving 18 consecutive life sentences for the murder of 29 patients, though authorities believe he is responsible for 400 deaths.

Following her part in the investigation, Loughren was able to receive the heart surgery that she needed and after years of working as a trauma, ICU and ER nurse, she has now gone into a different line of work: Spiritual healing.

According to her website, Loughren began her journey into spiritual healing after her experience of helping to capture her former friend, as she wanted to figure out why she was "blind to a murderer standing right in front of" her.

Loughren has since been able to come to terms with her relationship with Cullen, and she has since become trained in a number of areas.

On her website, she says she is a "Reiki Master, a Hypnotherapist, NLP Practitioner, Meditation Instructor, DreamSculptor Practitioner, Reconnective Healer, Integrative Energy Healer, Past Life Regressionist, Crystal Language Reader, Medical Intuitive," and she is able to help others make their own "unique Guidance Plan."

Loughren now lives in Florida with her daughters, Alex and Maya, and her grandchildren. She also worked closely with The Good Nurse director Tobias Lindholm and scriptwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns, and helped give advice to both Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne in their portrayal of her and Cullen, respectively.

As well as her help in the film, Loughren will also be appearing in Capturing the Killer Nurse, Netflix's documentary about the case.

Loughren spoke to Newsweek about being involved in both the drama and the documentary, saying that she hoped both productions would be able to help Cullen's real victims.

"I wanted to make certain that no one was really damaged emotionally, even thinking about going back to this," Loughren told Newsweek. "However, I also wanted them to have a voice, and, yes, there is that idea that perhaps they're going to be sensationalized [but] they haven't really had a voice.

"Some of them I do actually believe have gag orders so that they can't even talk about it, and I'm happy that now there's going to be a conversation."

Lindholm also spoke to Newsweek about working with Loughren on the film, saying: "I remember before I took on this [movie], I met with Amy and had lunch in New York and I needed her to confirm some of the parts of the story because I knew that I wanted to do a very humane story about her life, and a portrayal of a naturalistic superhero.

"And I couldn't do that without having her confirming [things], and I have to say that meeting her made it even more clear to me that [she] was a real-life hero.

"The fact that she was a lonely mom, the fact that she was living with these two daughters, the fact that she was struggling. I wasn't even aware of how serious her heart condition was until I met her and suddenly I realized that she was just doing her job she was risking her life and [the fact] she was caught in the same system that allowed Charlie to do what he did, made the story even clearer.

"So she's been a great resource and a great rock to lean on, and as great as it is to bring the film out into the world, and as great as it is to share with the audience, I have to say that her screening of the film when we finally finished it earlier this summer was the one that I was most nervous about."

Lindholm added that Loughren "was over the moon" when she saw the film, and he said: "She had seen it with her girls, Alex and Maya, and it made me really proud. She was in Florida, and I was in Copenhagen, Denmark, so it was I think 2 or 3 a.m my time, so I woke up and I saw Amy was calling me [and] I got a little scared. Luckily, she was very, very proud and happy with the film."

The Good Nurse is out on Netflix now, andthe Capturing the Killer Nurse documentary will be released on November 11.