For the majority of her career, Amy Griffin was predominantly known in circles as a marketing professional first, marrying a billionaire next, and then, as of 2017, a venture capitalist. That year, Griffin founded G9 Ventures, where she worked on deals with the likes of Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine and the dating app Bumble.
However, despite her massive success in the financial services sector, Griffin had more she wanted to do, and more she needed to say, especially as it pertained to her past growing up in Texas.
According to Griffin, even though she had what many would consider a picture-perfect life, she was constantly running from something. So she turned to psychedelic therapy in order to uncover things from her past that were continuing to plague her psyche. Through this therapy, predominantly done with MDMA, Griffin relived traumatic events involving sexual abuse at the hands of a teacher she had in middle school while in Texas.
Griffin took this experience and the discoveries she made in therapy and turned it into the best-selling, explosive memoir, The Tell. The Tell was an immensely buzzy book upon publication in 2025, being selected for Oprah’s Book Club and instantaneously hitting the New York Times bestseller list. The memoir was so prolific in just one year and some change post-publication that the reading platform Goodreads placed it among their “Most Popular Memoirs of the Last Decade” among the likes of Becoming by Michelle Obama and Know My Name by Chanel Miller.
View this post on InstagramHowever, The Tell was also met with its fair share of controversy. In the fall following its publication, medical professionals as well as readers were skeptical of the claims Griffin made about MDMA-assisted therapy uncovering repressed memories. Bigger than this, though, a former classmate of Griffin’s came forward claiming that the incidents of assault described in The Tell had actually happened to her, and that Griffin had effectively plagiarized her life. She also alleged she had been subjected to invasions of privacy by Griffin and/or people associated with her, in addition to negligence and infliction of emotional distress. She sued Griffin, who subsequently filed her own lawsuit against this former classmate for defamation.
Both lawsuits are still ongoing.
The Tell is out now and available wherever books are sold.
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