Five years after the controversy over the fake memoir A Million Little Pieces, James Frey is on Oprah to defend himself and explain a few things…
It’s no big surprise that a lot of people are on the fence about whether Frey deserved the backlash he received years ago when it was revealed that his memoir was actually a novel.
“We originally shopped the book as a novel,” Frey explains. “When I sat down to write the book, I didn’t think of it as a memoir, I didn’t think of it as an novel even. I thought of it as some, in a way, statement of defiance.”
Statement of defiance or not, he broke a lot of trust when the news came out.
