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When Brian Nichols first turned himself in, his hostage spoke of how she impressed him by fixing him pancakes with real butter. Now it seems she also shared a bit of crystal meth with him too.

Ashley Smith, the woman held hostage for hours after the March 11 Fulton County Courthouse shootings, reveals in a book released today that she gave alleged gunman Brian Nichols drugs on the night he held her captive.

Smith, 27, was thrust into a national media spotlight after talking her way out of Nichols' captivity and then calling police. In 'Unlikely Angel: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Hostage Hero,' Smith shares details of her seven-hour ordeal as a hostage in her Duluth apartment, and for the first time tells of giving Nichols drugs.

Nichols asked her for marijuana, she writes, but she had only a small amount of crystal methamphetamine. She thought offering him the drug might curry favor, but she says she refused to take the drug with him.

'I was not going to die tonight and stand before God, having done a bunch of ice up my nose,' she writes.

Very interesting. I guess you really can depend on the kindness of strangers.