How Crystal Meth Saved Ashley Smith
She said it was Jesus. She said it was reading from The Purpose Driven Life.
Ashley Smith, who became instantly famous when she talked an alledged murderer into giving himself up in Atlanta, has written a book called Unlikely Angel. She now reveals that she gave him crystal meth.
She is interviewed by The Book Standard.
In her new book, Unlikely Angel, written with Stacy Mattingly and in stores today, Smith reveals some surprising details of the seven hours she spent in her home with a desperate man, including her admission that she shared crystal methamphetamine (or “ice”) with her captor. Smith also relates the painful story of the five years before she was taken hostage—her years-long battle with drug addiction, the premature birth of her daughter, Paige, and the murder of her husband, Mack. And while so much has been made of the fact that Smith read aloud from Rick Warren’s The Purpose-Driven Life to Nichols, Angel reveals that, in fact, she read little more than a paragraph, and it was the telling of her own story and the sharing of her faith that turned Nichols around and allowed Smith to pass the night unharmed.
I think she has trouble giving herself credit. She obviously did what she needed to do and Jesus had nothing to do with it.
October 10th, 2005 at 9:42 pm
Crystal meth apparently saved her life, she just wasn’t willing to tell the truth until the publishers paid her. This experience is certainly going to enable her to afford to keep a stash of the stuff, in case of emergencies? I suppose that’s why she had it on hand in the first place, to convert sinners to Christ?