Please don’t reveal…
In the “Please, Don’t reveal the secret ending to your friends!” file, check out the bizarre twist on the Ashley Smith story. If you’ve forgotten the Ashley Smith story, she’s the woman who was taken hostage and talked her captor down from his violent killing spree by reading from The Purpose-Driven Life.
Well, Nobody’s Business found a story over at ABC News that, well, suggests Ashley Smith and the Word may have had a bit of outside help.
Ashley Smith, the woman who says she persuaded suspected courthouse gunman Brian Nichols to release her by talking about her faith, discloses in a new book that she gave him methamphetamine during the hostage ordeal.
Smith did not share that detail with authorities at the time. But investigators said she came clean about the drugs when they interviewed her months later. They said they have no plans to charge her with drug possession.
In her book, “Unlikely Angel,” released Tuesday, Smith says Nichols had her bound on her bed with masking tape and an extension cord. She says he asked for marijuana, but she did not have any, and she dug into her illegal stash of crystal meth instead.
It’s lovely that the police have no intentions to charge her with drug possession. Of course, that probably has just as much to do with a complete lack of physical evidence as it has to do with her being a Christian news media celebrity.