Having no personal knowledge of his conversion but having read a number of stories in the modern media that get even the simplest facts about Orthodoxy wrong, I suspect that the author didn’t get what Chrismation meant.
Then the author would have had to quote him wrongly:
"I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being baptized Orthodox, it's like reading a whole new Bible. You see the depth behind the words so much more clearly."
There are more than a few priests double baptizing in both the Catholic and Orthodox Churches even after they've been instructed not to. I know of cases personally.