Tacky! Tawdry! Tasteless! Pathetic! Exploitative! Worst of all, knowing this story means you probably remember stuff that happened in the early 1990s!
(This could go under 'News' but it's being marketed as 'Entertainment, so ...)

Edit: The "JUST SAY NO" anti-drug brigade will like this too. After all, like pot smokers, Ecstasy users are fond of claiming that unlike alcohol, THEIR drug of choice doesn't result in anybody becoming angry and violent. Think again ...

Amy Fisher Blames Ecstasy for Attack

The Ecstasy made her do it. Amy Fisher says she was strung out on the club drug when she shot her boyfriend's wife in the face in 1992.


"I was using Ecstasy, a lot of Ecstasy," Fisher, nicknamed the "Long Island Lolita," tells "Entertainment Tonight" in an interview that was to air Thursday. "I had no control."

Fisher was 16 when she visited the home of her much-older lover, Joey Buttafuoco, a car mechanic on New York's Long Island, and shot his wife, Mary Jo, as she answered the door.


The drug made her feel "stronger and confident," she says.


"I just did something totally irrational," Fisher says. "Believe me, rational people don't go to do something like that in the middle of the day. It's just insane."

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Amy Fisher's Apology

May 2, 2006

"Long Island Lolita" AMY FISHER and her former flame JOEY BUTTAFUOCO hashed it out face-to-face exclusively for ET this week -- but can they apologize to each other?

"You know, if our relationship was anything and anybody thinks it was inappropriate, I apologize to my wife and children -- and you know something? Even to you, okay?" Joey told Amy. "But you don't shoot somebody. You don't take somebody's life. You just don't do that. You ruined [my former wife] MARY JO's health. She's deaf and paralyzed; that girl, you left her [for] dead. You left Mary Jo [for] dead, the mother of my children."

"Yeah, I think the whole world knows this already," replied Amy, who became contrite. "And you know, like I said, I am sorry. And if Mary Jo were here, believe me, I am sorry."

It was the story that became a tabloid sensation. A 16-year-old Amy met the older, married Joey, then 35, in May of 1991 when she took her car to his Baldwin, Long Island auto shop for repairs. Soon after that, they began an illicit affair and Amy asked Joey to leave his wife, Mary Jo. Joey refused, and on May 13, 1992, Amy had an accomplice drive her to the Buttafuocos' home, where she shot Mary Jo in the head.

Mary Jo miraculously survived, and Amy was imprisoned for her crime. Joey was also put behind bars for having sex with a minor, and the story of what seemed like a calculated, cold-blooded murder attempt began to change when details of Amy's tragic past -- filled with stories of rape, molestation and prostitution -- came to light. When ET brought the pair face to face, sparks flew and everyone in the room could feel the tension. But after verbally sparring back and forth, the two attempted to bury the hatchet once and for all.



"Do you take any responsibility for what happened, for even getting involved with me in the first place?" asks Amy.



"Yes I do. I absolutely do," responds Joey. "Do you cry? Because I do. I've cried a river. I've cried a river for my children, and for Mary, for everything that happened."



"You know all I ever wanted you to do, and you did this privately, is just be honest with me and say you're sorry," says Amy. "That apology meant a lot, it really did. And it was part of my healing process."



Joey asks, "Do you think that this whole thing ruined a good part of your life, or a portion of your life?"



"Oh it definitely did; definitely," responds Amy.



"Me too," says Joey. "Will something good come out of today?"



"I think something did, for me," says Amy. "I don't have to hide. You know, for me, I feel like I've been honest. I feel like a big brick has been lifted off my back. And I feel good for what I did. I really do. I feel good for finally just being honest. Because it's something I haven't done for so many years because I was scared."



"For the first time in 14 years I'm able to put down what I call a backpack full of anger also, and move on -- and really, really put it down and move on," says Joey. "Really. Really. Setting everything aside. So yeah, something good came for me as well."



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This kind of tacky grand guignol shit about people infamous only for doing something exceptionally horrible or shocking CAN be done well, but on "ET!", it's always anti-climactic shit. I still wish I'd seen it.

Amy Fisher completely kicks The Runaway Brides ass in terms of great tawdry entertainment. I was able to cut her a little slack when I saw her on Oprah too. She seemed genuinely contrite, poised and not completely without intelligence - but this ...

("Joey's apology really means a lot"? I can believe her story that the shooting was his idea now!)

Didn't Mary Jo write letters to help secure Amy's release from prison?

This entire case has been bizarre.

She did, and she attended Amy's last parole hearing to support her release. It's an absolute miracle Mary Jo is even alive. It was an incredibly noble and kind act. On Oprah, they showed clips of her on CNN, no less, describing how Amy was in tears, and couldn't stop saying "I'm so sorry!"

Yeah, bizarre is right. Controversial too. Amy's bail was set at two million dollars, the highest amount in the entire history of Nassau County, Long Island. The much maligned feminist Naomi Wolf had a lot to say about that.

There were three TV movies made about the case, and for some reason, all were shown on the same night on different networks.

I still see copies of the one starring Drew Barrymore as Amy under 'True Stories' at video libraries. I think it was the producers of that movie who actually raised Amy's bail, thereby briefly securing her release.
Definitely bizarre.

Amy was on ecstacy now? And that's why I shot her?
In her autobiography, she claims it was a gun malfunction and she didn't intend to shoot her at all. Or something.
I don't know. Amy Fisher really weirds me out.

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Maybe she dropped some E in the chamber of the gun. And she was probably just cleaning it, too, when Big Bird came in and hypnotized her into doing his evil Manson-esque work. She would've started molesting children, but that usually comes BEFORE shooting your boyfriend's wife. I mean, she had a clear shot and he JUST swooped down. What was she supposed to do, run over to the playground and have her wait!? That's fucking rude.

Or maybe she's just feling guilty.

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