If you don't know, he was the guy who claimed to be a recovering meth addict and who wrote a book about it that turned out to be bogus.
For the first time in five years, embattled author James Frey will face Oprah Winfrey on Monday, taking up two episodes of the final full week of the media maven’s talk show. Frey’s “A Million Little Pieces” was selected to be part of Oprah’s book club in 2005, catapulting the author and book to success. But after the Smoking Gun uncovered inconsistencies and lies in the book, Frey appeared on her show again in 2006 and acknowledged that he had lied: The book wasn’t a memoir. “I feel duped,” Oprah told her audience. “But more importantly, I feel that you betrayed millions of readers.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/celebritology/post/james-frey-faces-oprah-five-years-after-the-million-little-pieces-controversy/2011/05/16/AFsIc54G_blog.html
For the first time in five years, embattled author James Frey will face Oprah Winfrey on Monday, taking up two episodes of the final full week of the media maven’s talk show. Frey’s “A Million Little Pieces” was selected to be part of Oprah’s book club in 2005, catapulting the author and book to success. But after the Smoking Gun uncovered inconsistencies and lies in the book, Frey appeared on her show again in 2006 and acknowledged that he had lied: The book wasn’t a memoir. “I feel duped,” Oprah told her audience. “But more importantly, I feel that you betrayed millions of readers.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/celebritology/post/james-frey-faces-oprah-five-years-after-the-million-little-pieces-controversy/2011/05/16/AFsIc54G_blog.html
