Amber Frey: Oddities

Over the last few days, Amber Frey has been making the circles in the media, pushing her new book, Witness.

I’ve listened to her story, and while I feel she is simple girl who acts on emotions instead of logic, she isn’t coming clean about everything.

She talks to Matt Lauer on NBC.com in a video entitled “I was just so scared”. In the video (time marker 4:38), she says she was afraid to go home. That was December 29, 2002. She says she was so afraid that she didn’t go home for a week.

Now, in Oprah’s interview which airs today, and I believe in her book (though that is a guess) she says that Scott told her in one of their taped conversations later in February 2003 (more than five weeks later) that he left her a gift for her birthday in a nearby hotel. Amber Frey tells Oprah that she went and retrieved that gift out of curiosity. She doesn’t say a word about being afraid this time.

Isn’t that odd???

Clearly, something is amiss. If you are that afraid early on, you don’t become less afraid as the story thickens with insane lies, a full-blown police and FBI investigation. Something has to give here. What is the real truth, Amber?

Amber also gets very defensive with Oprah Winfrey when Oprah asks Amber if she had seen the breaking news. The whole country had seen the news. Amber flat out denies ever seeing the news or hearing about Scott Peterson’s story prior to being told by friends on December 29 that her Scott may indeed be “this” Scott.

It doesn’t sit well with me. Why did she ramble on about all the reasons why she didn’t watch TV for five days?? It was Christmas, she has a young child, she didn’t have time, etc. She didn’t read the paper, either? Not only did she get really defensive, but she stumbles for words. She wants to seem mad, but doesn’t quite pull it off.

I believe that Amber truly hoped and wished that Scott would be cleared and that he would come back to her. I believe she was in denial at times and could not accept the truth. Accepting the truth isn’t easy in the face of such a tragedy. Anyone would have a difficult time with this one, no doubt. It is understandable.

But on their first date when Scott Peterson first tells Amber that he is single, living alone, has never been married and doesn’t even own a dog (time marker 2:21), and then within three weeks on December 9, 2002, changes his story and says he had a wife but lost her, Amber should have gotten mad at him. He admits to his lie, plain and simple.

He lied, but instead Amber felt sorry for him and wanted to believe him. She didn’t question him. This is where she violated herself. She should have realized that a lie of this magnitude would never bode well for anyone—ever.