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Oprah Winfrey confronted James Frey about his memoir of drug and alcohol addiction, A Million Little Pieces, telling him that she felt “duped” by the book that she helped launch onto the bestseller lists.
“I have been in television since I was 19 years old, and I have never been in this position,” she said at the outset of the program. “To everyone who has challenged me on” the subject of the book’s veracity, she later admitted, “you are absolutely right.”
A Million Little Pieces hit stores in 2003 and enjoyed only moderate sales, then became the second bestselling title of last year, after Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, once Winfrey touted it as her book club pick in September reports People Magazine
The high of the book’s incredible success came to a crashing end on Jan. 8, however, when the Smoking Gun Web site published a report about Frey’s accounts, saying that the author embellished, and even invented, some of his material
Winfrey began by apologizing to viewers for a telephone call she made to CNN’s “Larry King Live” show on January 11, while King was interviewing Frey about the controversy. In the call Winfrey said that even though the facts were being questioned, the book “still resonates with me” and called the controversy “much ado about nothing.”
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