Celebrity Rehab's Amy Fisher is mad at the media - still.
Fisher has gone from biting the hand that feeds her, by lambasting her current employers on Celebrity Rehab, to blaming the entertainment execs who retold the 1992 shooting that skyrocketed her to infamy.
In 1992, Fisher served 7 years of a 15 year-maximum sentence for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco, a woman married to the man with whom Fisher had an ongoing affair.
Fisher's Current Gripe
In a Twitter rant to curious fans, Fisher said this week that she blames the inaccuracies in some of the made-for-television movies that detailed her 1992 assault, for how she is viewed by the public. According to Fisher, producers and actors in the renderings, "ruined my life."
"My life in the public was written by a screenwriter," she said on her Twitter page, this week.
Although Fisher does have a case with how she may have been portrayed by some "legitimate" news sources at the time, her current celebrity is largely of her own creation.
Porn PR
Fisher's return to the spotlight, absent the Buttafuoco shooting, followed her marriage to Lou Bellera, in 2003. As husband and wife, the duo filmed and released a homemade pornographic movie.
The stag flick sold 200,000 copies, according to her publicist.
To promote the tape, Fisher agreed to stage a reunion and an alleged renewed love affair with her convicted molester, Joe Buttafuoco.
Fisher and Buttafuoco appeared via telephone on the Howard Stern radio and television show in 2007, poorly pretending to be bickering lovers.
The Fisher/Bellera sex tape was released by Red Light District productions in 2008.
Victim of the Times
Fisher's story was, no doubt, the hottest topic amid the newly-formed tabloid media explosion of the late 1980's through early 1990's.
By the end of 1992, all three major television networks had produced their own prime-time accounts of the shooting.
Fisher was paid only by NBC for the exclusive rights to her story; ABC's version was based entirely on news reports and the CBS version paid rights to the Buttafuoco's only.
"I was a paycheck to them," Fisher said.
Celebrity Rehab
Fisher's public behavior regarding Celebrity Rehab certainly hasn't helped her to gain any new fans, however.
Since the airing of the show's fifth season, Fisher has been dissatisfied with her portrayal.
In her Tweets, Fisher Tweeted, among other things, that she is not an alcoholic, that show execs have been persuading her to say that she was while on camera and that producers have been altering video to portray her negatively.
"The show cuts n pastes material," she Tweeted.
During her public fight with cast member, Steven Adler, Fisher made no bones about her feelings toward the ailing musician. On her Twitter account the night that their first Rehab encounter aired, Fisher all but called Adler a woman abuser.
"Well, he is mean to women. With men he is very quiet n humble," she said. "Says something, huh."
