Wow, you seem to be quite a jerk. Why so bitterly obsessed with her after all this time?
Do you honestly believe that she would go on TV and admit to having given him drugs that night if she was still addicted and using? Admitting it to a nat'l TV audience is not only tough, but a way of penance and attempting to put that bad part of her past behind her. It is therapy, by confessing and inviting the whole nation to hold her accountable. How much easier would it have been (or at leasted appeared to be from her viewpoint) for her to never have mentioned it, left it out of the book, and gone on with a hidden life?
What we saw is someone honestly trying to change their life, and taking advice that tells them to confess, come clean, and put yourself in a position to be held accountable. I betcha dollars to donuts that she was urged by those counseling her to do this interview for those reasons. If she was just selling a book, it would have been far easier(and with higher sales) for her to never mention it and pretend everything was fine that night.
Obviously she still had problems that night, but it also appears that she allowed it to be a life-changing experience for the better. Time will tell, but this interview goes a long way to supporting that view, not shooting it down, as you imply. Completely consistent with what we surmised in the days after the incident, that she was a person trying to clean up her act by turning to God, but now we know her struggles were deeper and more recent than we realized.
So I don't understand your obsession with trashing her, instead of recognizing that she may be turning her life around, and wishing her the best.
Ashley is a LIAR, and you and many other FReepers trashed me and others when we stated that her story was full of holes last March. If she was on the witness stand, her testimony would be impeached by her own admission of lying. She mislead everyone and many of you bought it. She was awarded $60K reward money (taxpayer) and given heroine status, and now admits she wasn't truthful from the gitgo!
There are plenty reasons to call Ashley Smith on her deciept, but folks like you are willing to turn a blind eye.
You were duped, admit it.
If you look at Chieftain's posting history you will see this poster has an ax to grind with christians.