Ashley smith regretted the words the moment they came out of her mouth. While she was held hostage in her apartment last March by Brian Nichols—the man accused of a murderous rampage in Atlanta that left four people dead, including the judge hearing his rape trial—he asked her if she had any marijuana. No, she replied, but she did have some meth. "Oh my God, what did I just say?" she thought, recalling the scene for a NEWSWEEK reporter last week at a publicist's office in New York, where Smith was promoting her new book about her ordeal, "Unlikely Angel." Fearing Nichols would take the meth, "I had this picture that he was going to be recklessly moving around the house."
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