![]() ![]() She pressed: "Why would you lie about the time you spent in jail?" "And you altered things about yourself," Winfrey said. I altered things about all of them," he said. "Every one of the people in the book existed. I still think the book is about drug addiction and alcoholism and no one is disputing that I was a drug addict and an alcoholic, and it's about the battle to overcome that."Īmong the facts he admitted to embellishing: he was jailed for only a few hours, not 87 days and each character in the book wasn't wholly represented. "It's embarrassing and disappointing for me," she said.( Watch what makes Oprah's 'sorry' a good one - 2:36)Īnd even while Frey admitted altering information that he presented as facts, he maintained his book is a memoir. ![]() Winfrey, whose endorsement of "A Million Little Pieces" turned it into one of the top-selling books of 2005, retracted her support of the author, saying she felt "conned" by him. Pressed if he lied or made a mistake, Frey acknowledged more. "I made a lot of mistakes in writing the book and promoting the book." "I made a mistake," he told Oprah Winfrey during Thursday's show. ![]() CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) - Author James Frey on Thursday admitted he lied and embellished events about himself and other characters in his best-selling book about substance abuse and recovery. ![]()
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