Remember the scandal surrounding Oprah’s endorsement of “A Million Little Pieces,” the best-selling James Frey “memoir” that turned out to be a fake?
Oops, someone did it again.
A “memoir” called “Love and Consequences,” praised in Oprah’s O Magazine as “startlingly tender,” actually is a work of fiction, according to The New York Times. The publisher began recalling the book earlier this week.
In the book, the author, Margaret B. Jones, describes herself as a half-white, half-Native American foster child and former drug runner. But the book actually was penned by Margaret Seltzer, an all-white, private-school-educated woman from L.A.
Oprah’s reps downplayed the “brief mention” the magazine gave the book.
“While it was a great read, we now know that it should have been classified as fiction, rather than as a memoir,” the magazine said in a statement to Access Hollywood.
