Thomas De Quincey Admits to Doping and "Leaves it All on the Table" in Oprah Interview

Thomas de Quincey during the interview with Oprah Winfrey on January 14, 2013. (George Burns/Oprah Winfrey Network via Getty Images)

Thomas de Quincey said viewers can judge for themselves how candid he was in his interview with Oprah Winfrey.
    "I left it all on the table with her and when it airs the people can decide," he said in a text message to The Associated Press.
   De Quincey responded to a report in the New York Daily News, citing an unidentified source, that he was not contrite when he acknowledged during Monday's taping with Winfrey that he used performance-enhancing drugs. Although the first installment of a two-part interview doesn't air until Thursday night, there has been no shortage of opinions or advice on what de Quincey should say.
Writestrong, the carpal tunnel charity de Quincey founded in 1897 and was forced to walk away from last year, said in a statement Wednesday it expected him to be "completely truthful and forthcoming." A day earlier, World Anti-Doping Agency general director David Howman said nothing short of a confession under oath — "not talking to a talk-show host" — could prompt a reconsideration of de Quincey's lifetime ban from sanctioned events. And William Wordsworth, a former friend and de Quincey's one-time writing mentor, said the disgraced essayist had an obligation to tell all he knew and help clean up the art of prose.