Contesting this book would mean discrediting his own father as his co-author. Jokes playing on his surname have been made far and wide, but Alex Malarkey is not James Frey for the evangelical set. They should read the Bible, which is enough,” Alex wrote. People have profited from lies, and continue to.
When I made the claims, I had never read the Bible. “I said I went to heaven because I thought it would get me attention,” he wrote on his own blog. The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven, published in 2010 with Alex and his father Kevin listed as co-authors, eventually became a bestseller – one billed as a description of “miracles, angels, and life beyond this world”.īut last week, following persistent rumours, Alex, now 16, revealed that the detail in the book was false. But his description of what happened in between offered a compelling tale of life after death, including visions of angels and meeting Jesus.
Johnson would spend the next two years trying to help Beth get out that message – that Alex’s story wasn’t real, that a child who had almost died in a car accident in 2004 had been pushed to expand upon a fairytale he’d told when he was six.įollowing the accident, Alex spent two months in a coma and woke up paralysed. “ because the book was a bestseller, no one in the evangelical publishing industry wanted to kill it.” “You’re right, this whole story is fabricated,” Johnson recalled Beth Malarkey telling him. But nobody else was listening to her or her son any more, so she called Johnson almost immediately. Beth and Alex had left a trail telling the truth all over the internet, even as The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven kept selling.
In Bellefontaine, Ohio, Alex Malarkey’s mother, Beth, was reading.
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