NYT expose on The Tell by Amy Griffin
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Anonymous
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Anyone read today’s NYT article attempting to blow up Amy Griffin’s grift? Always had a funny feeling about her and this book.
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Anonymous
| Can you post a gift link? |
Anonymous
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/nyregion/amy-griffin-memoir-psychedelic-drugs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ok8.S1eJ.8VNxEV8XFqp5&smid=url-share |
Anonymous
| I had assumed that by now Oprah would have been better about sniffing out a fake story. |
Anonymous
| In a nutshell, can you describe the book and why it’s controversial? Your subject title intrigued me. |
Anonymous
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I read the article. I was completely unaware of her and her book. Although she graduated from UVA the same year as me—I guess I’ve been living under a rock.
The whole thing sounds completely ridiculous, though, and I feel bad for the accused teacher. Can’t these billionaires just enjoy their bounty quietly somewhere. So many of them are hell bent on destroying regular people’s lives. |
Anonymous
I'm not OP but I did read the book. In a nutshull, the author took psychadelics in therapy and through that experience claims to have uncovered long-repressed memories of her being SAed when she was in high school. |
Anonymous
Oh wait, slight correction, it started when she was in middle school. It's been a while since I read the book! |
Anonymous
Thank you I never read the book but I remember hearing about it! |
Anonymous
I think it was middle school, but was it true. That's what I don't get. And she's a billionaire why make it up. I guess I'm confused is it a grift or what is the expose about. |
Anonymous
If she’s a billionaire, why write a book about it? Deal with it privately. |
Anonymous
The author went from a wealthy, privileged childhood to an even more wealthy and privileged adulthood. She wondered what made her feel like she had to be perfect all the time. Her husband had a significant financial stake in a business that was promoting the use of psychedelic drugs by patients in therapy. She felt like there was some dark reason behind her quest for perfection, so she decided to try drug assisted psychotherapy. Under the influence of the drugs she either hallucinated or recovered actual memories of repeated violent sexual abuse at the hands of one of her middle school teachers. Despite a heavy saturation of celebrities promoting her book and her whole hometown being aware of the book, no one has corroborated her account and zero other victims have come forward, which was very unexpected since the assaults recounted in her book were brazen and sexual offenders with easy access to kids tend to have multiple victims. There is one classmate of hers who had a rather traumatic childhood and suffered remarkably similar sexual assaults, but at the hands of a completely different teacher. The classmate didn’t need psychedelics to remember the details of her attacks. The attorney for the author says that the Times even trying to fact check the author’s account is an unacceptable attack on a victim of sexual assault. |
Anonymous
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The nyt article ends rather abruptly.
This was a quote
But I thought after some scandals regarding made up memoirs this changed. Why didn't the NYT interview psych experts who could talk about the likely veracity of recovered memories in general? Or if memory repression can be so complete? |
Anonymous
| Did she name the teacher in the book? |
Anonymous
No, but she named him in the book proposal. The NY Times did not name him. |