When the website suggested Frey owed it to his readers and Winfrey to address the issue, Frey responded “there’s nothing at this point that can come out of this conversation that is good for me” (Bastone, 2006). However, during the third interview, Frey finally admitted that he had embellished central details of his past. Frey went to the effort of getting court records purged in order to protect himself from the situation he found himself in. The Smoking Gun questioned why a man needed to protect himself after spending 430 pages writing about every grimy and repulsive detail of his former life. The answer to their question was later discovered in the basement of the Ohio police headquarters where Frey & Co. failed to purge the last remaining document that exposed the truth of Frey’s felonious spree. This thus led The Smoking Gun to discover the truth: Frey’s time in custody did not exceed beyond 5 hours (not 3 months as he had written) and he was released on a $733 cash bond. (Bastone, 2006). Although he would later write vividly about being consumed by an internal rage, Frey’s arrest was mundane – he was simply “a neatly dressed frat boy five months out of school and plastered on cheap beer” (Bastone,
When the website suggested Frey owed it to his readers and Winfrey to address the issue, Frey responded “there’s nothing at this point that can come out of this conversation that is good for me” (Bastone, 2006). However, during the third interview, Frey finally admitted that he had embellished central details of his past. Frey went to the effort of getting court records purged in order to protect himself from the situation he found himself in. The Smoking Gun questioned why a man needed to protect himself after spending 430 pages writing about every grimy and repulsive detail of his former life. The answer to their question was later discovered in the basement of the Ohio police headquarters where Frey & Co. failed to purge the last remaining document that exposed the truth of Frey’s felonious spree. This thus led The Smoking Gun to discover the truth: Frey’s time in custody did not exceed beyond 5 hours (not 3 months as he had written) and he was released on a $733 cash bond. (Bastone, 2006). Although he would later write vividly about being consumed by an internal rage, Frey’s arrest was mundane – he was simply “a neatly dressed frat boy five months out of school and plastered on cheap beer” (Bastone,