The Tell

“You were the first to report on how this book she wrote, The Tell. She's married to a New York City billionaire. He's worth $6 billion. She's decided to glom on calling herself a founder”

“But isn't there a part in the tell where Amy references that postcard? Yes. Amy says, hey, this is the inciting event, right? Like I got a postcard out of the blue from Jolene. From Claudia.”

“And in some of those cases, the promotion of this woman's book. I mean, how about you, Oprah? You got out there and pushed it harder than anyone. Jenna Bush, Hager, you too.”

“We have got an in-depth report on the latest in this controversy over Amy Griffin and her book later in the program. This woman was out there. It's called The Tell.”

“And so she wrote this book called The Tell in March of 2025, which was allegedly a memoir. In the book, she claims that she was raped and sexually assaulted by a teacher back in Amarillo, Texas, when she was in middle school”

“But let me take you back to when the book launched March of 2025 and give you a feel for how it was treated by these faux journalists. And then one night her young daughter tells her, "Mom, you're really nice. You're here with us, but you're actually not here."”

“Some of the descriptions in the tell of Ms. Griffin's being assaulted are eerily similar to the abuse she, this Jane Doe, Jolene, we now know, herself endured, she said. She has since retained the lawyer.”

“And here is a bit from Amy Griffin's audiobook of the tell, recounting her, quote, recovered memories of one of the alleged rapes in a bathroom by Mr. Mason, so 50. It wasn't until I got into the car with John that the pieces of the memory suddenly fused together.”

“She went to the dance with this boy and she claimed something awful happened at the Sadie Hawkins dance, Top 51. It was a Sadie Hawkins style dance where the girls asked the boys, I was wearing a poofy dress”

“Remember, the tell has Amy's alleged stories of abuse. And then a character named Claudia who Amy suspects may also be a victim. There's a scene in the book where she like goes to Claudia's house”

“I'm reading here. It was under a, um, uh, let's see. Hold on. I think it was Penguin, Penguin Random House is the publishing company. The imprint is called the dial press, uh, report by Lachlan Cartwright”

“Plus, author Amy Griffin is now suing the woman who alleges Amy stole her story for her best-seller, The Tell.”

“Who did Amy Griffin's The Tell and then did Belle Burden's Strangers?”

“and got a best-selling book, The Tell, out of it, which we now believe were lies.”

“And she did write that book called The Tell. Uh in this book The Tell, she claimed that she underwent MDMA therapy.”

“And she alleges that the sexual assault described in The Tell actually happened to her, not to Amy. And she is heavily suggesting that Amy stole this entire story from her and that she willingly stole it.”

“And there were these reviews on Amazon of The Tell after it hit by a lot of women who had actually had survived sexual assault saying, "This is not ring true."”

“only to then read about it in the tell. This is very damning.”

“It's extremely dark. It's harrowing and it appears in the tell as Amy's story.”

“The other thing about the tell, which is very strange, is that she's got no real dates in there, no real ages at which these things happen to her. She's getting, like, I'm not trying to be flit, but I'm just saying this is the way the book is written.”

“I cannot [music] encourage you all enough to order and read The Tail. It's available for pre-order now, and I found it personally life-changing.”