Bill Spencer

If you watch To Die For, people take that and they say, okay, this whole movie is true.

And this person, Pamela Smart, is a horrible individual.

It's a very iconic movie.

Yes.

And it helped to freeze me in the image of my worst mistake.

That mistake?

Pamela says it was sleeping with Billy Flynn, not asking him to kill her husband.

She denies that.

Pamela says the jury was infected by a press that caricatured her as an evil seductress.

She says the tabloids were full of lies, like those bikini photos, that they weren't shot to tempt Billy Flynn.

They were taken for fun with a friend for a modeling contest.

Somehow the narrative escaped or got created that I took these pictures for Bill Flynn and gave them to him to seduce him.

By the time Pamela took the stand, there was a lot to dig out of.

She had to testify in court that, yes, she'd been a school district employee who'd slept with a student.

And then, the prosecutor pressed her about why she didn't admit the affair from the beginning.

Someone in the media even likened you to an ice princess.

I think I was in shock completely.

And of course, when I was by myself later on in the night, I would be crying when I was re-watching the coverage or whatever.

It was upsetting.

From defense attorney Mark Sisti's point of view, Pamela was more arrested development than ice queen.