James Frey, Gone to a (Million Little Pieces)

There never was any doubt in my mind that James Frey was a fraud. I'm not just talking about his book, a supposed memior called "A Million Little Pieces". I'm talking about his image as an addict/alcoholic bad boy.

I can't say if he really is an addict/alcoholic, that's not my place. I do know however that he embellishes a lot. Even if he is an addict/alcoholic he isn't to the degree that he portrays in real life or in his book, and he sure as hell isn't a bad boy.

What bothers me about the whole thing is the fact that he has lost credibility with so many people trying to recover, who maybe are new and grabbed onto his book and story and looked up to him and saw there was hope for them too.

Now that he is exposed as a fraud, a lot of those people will be disenchanted so to speak, with the whole recovery process.

All the talk in the media is about how he conned Oprah and his publisher Nan A. Talese, what about all the new people in recovery? Nobody has said a word about them.

He didn't fool any of us old dogs who have real addiction stories and real scars, but he sure fooled the publishing industry and Oprah and the whole Pop Psycology movement.

They don't want the truth though, they want shlock, they always do, so I don't know why they're whining. They want stuff that sounds good, that sounds bad boyish. The truth isn't like that, it's boring for the most part, and rarely sells books.

The truth to the James Frey story would never have made a book, it would probably be a boring 15 minute story at best.

The truth is that the whole thing should have been covered up, Oprah could still be smiling and singing the praises of James Frey, the publishers would be making their money, James Frey would have his bad boy image he so desparately needs and wants, and the addicts would have their hope.

His isn't the first all crap story I've heard.

I could go on and on, but it's what the people want, they don't want to hear from those of us that have really been there.