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NEW YORK, Feb 1, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- The next 100,000 copies of "A Million Little Pieces" will include author James Frey's admission he "altered events and details all the way through the book."
Frey acknowledges embellishing many details about his past to help create a better story, PublishersWeekly.com reported Wednesday.
He also repeated his defense that the lies he passed off as truth in the "memoir" were a coping mechanism.
"My mistake, and it is one I deeply regret, is writing about the person I created in my mind to help me cope, and not the person who went through the experience," Frey wrote.
Frey's apology of sorts was posted on the Random House Web site a day after his literary agent announced she was dumping him as a client.
Kassie Evashevski of Brillstein-Grey Entertainment said her trust with the author has been broken. Frey swore his story was true, and that's how she pitched the book to publishers, she said.
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