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Wednesday, January 11, 2006

We're back.

James: "This is the true story of what I went through in treatment... A lot of what I said to the Smoking Gun was supposed to be off the record. [Larry: "Are you angry?"] Yes. [Smoking Gun has a different version of events.] But I take responsiblity for what I said. [Larry: "Are you afraid you'll go back to drugs and alcohol under all this pressure?" -- Or something to that effect.] I mean it's been a trying week, absolutely. I've been fine getting through the week. Of course there's temptation [to fall off the wagon]... but I'm getting through the week. And I'll be fine.... There are two hundred pages of re-created conversations in the book, but people haven't been questioning that because people understand it's my subjective re-creation of my life... I hoped the book would help people deal with similar situations in their lives... I hope it's helping people..."