Since The Smoking Gun report came out, two people who were in the facility with me have come forward. I mean, all the people in the book are real. Oprah: How much of the book is fabricated? Oprah: What said was that you lied about the length of time that you spent in jail. James: I think they did a good job detailing some of the discrepancies between some of the actual facts of the events. James: I think most of what they wrote was pretty accurate. So first of all, I wanted to start with The Smoking Gun report titled, "The Man Who Conned Oprah" and I want to know-were they right? So now, as I sit here today I don't know what is true and I don't know what isn't.
I think it's such a gift to have millions of people to read your work and that bothers me greatly. But more importantly, I feel that you betrayed millions of readers. "But it is possible that somebody might look at these books with a slightly more alert eye.Oprah: James Frey is here and I have to say it is difficult for me to talk to you because I feel really duped. "Publishing companies run on pretty tight budgets and there's just not enough time to check every book," said Viking associate publisher Paul Slovak. Meanwhile, publishers and agents agreed that tighter scrutiny was needed after Talese acknowledged what the industry knows well but perhaps not the general public: Memoirs are not fact-checked.ĭespite calls from Winfrey and others to tighten standards, many doubt publishers will hire fact checkers. On Friday, it was in the top 5 on both and Barnes &. Talese to be broadcast Friday night on the Oxygen network, a cable channel Winfrey helped found.ĭespite Frey's on-air humiliation, when Winfrey berated him and the author acknowledged that key parts of the books were invented, "A Million Little Pieces" kept on selling. "I think writing a book about this experience would be trying to capitalize on it in some way and that's not something I want to do at all," Frey said in a segment on Oprah Winfrey's syndicated talk show that was taped, but not immediately aired, after Thursday's explosive program when Winfrey turned against the author whose book she endorsed last fall.įrey's comments were part of "Oprah After the Show," a conversation featuring Frey, Winfrey and publisher Nan A. NEW YORK - James Frey, the disgraced author of "A Million Little Pieces," has a hard luck story he doesn't want to share: He will not write a book about the unraveling of his admittedly tainted million-selling memoir of addiction and recovery.
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