Leading up to Sunday’s “Celebrity Rehab” special episode, Amy Fisher is expecting the worst.
“Producer told me if I did not comply they would destroy me,” Fisher wrote on her Twitter page during the show’s finale.
Since last Sunday’s season five closer, Fisher has been steadily slamming producers in preparation for the reunion show, which hoped to bring her face-to-face yet again with once intended target, Mary Jo Buttafuoco.
Fisher is placing blame on producers for exploiting her and charging Buttafuoco with being a paid actor hired to do dirty work.
The improptu meeting between the women was nixed by Fisher during the filiming of the reunion episode.
“Mary Jo was PAID for Celeb Rehab final episodes,” Fisher said.
Fisher and other cast members were paid for their participation on the show, as well.
“She was suposed to say “nice” things about me “moving on” but when I refused to sit with her the producers got nasty, threatened me and changed it to make me look like a bad person.”
Fisher said that she rejected the proposal last week when show hosts Dr. Drew Pinsky and Bob Forrest arrived at her California home to encourage the meeting with Buttafuoco.
In 1992, then 17 year-old Fisher shot Buttafuoco in the face, nearly killing her. She had been involved in a romantic relationship with Buttafuoco’s husband prior to the shooting.
Fisher served 7 years of a 15 year-sentence, and Buttafuoco’s husband received 6 months for having sex with the 16 year-old Fisher.
The Long Island Lolita answered resounding Tweets, charging that amends had already been made between victim and perpetrator.
“We did it for 2 weeks on ET/Insider,” Fisher said, referring to the “healing sessions,” which aired in 2006, bringing her together with the ex-Buttfuocos.
One year later, Fisher and Joey Buttafuoco hugged and kissed for cameras as part of a publicity stunt, implying that the two were re-kindling their once-statutorial romance. It was rumored that the duo had a potential reality-type show in the works, which later fell apart.
Fisher told her Twitter fans that the Buttafuoco reunion has “zero to do with the rehab show.”
“It’s ratings n they will now exploit me for profit,” she wrote.
For Fisher, the nearly 20 year-old assault can’t get far enough behind her, but for Buttafuoco, much like the paralysis that drains her face, it is quite relavent.
As recent as 2009, Buttafuoco recalled the event in her book, “Getting it Through My Thick Skull.” The book was intended to help families deal with sociopaths, she said, similar to her ex-husband.