Boy who came back from heaven ‘lied’

Alex Malarky whose tale of dying and going to heaven has admitted that he made the whole thing up

In this 2009 photo, Beth Malarkey, left, covers up her son, Alex, right, with a blanket after surgery as Alex's father, Kevin, looks on. Source: AP

A BEST-selling account of a six-year-old boy's journey to heaven and back has been pulled after the boy retracted his story and admitted it was a lie.

Spokesman Todd Starowitz of Tyndale House, a leading Christian publisher, confirmed yesterday that Alex Malarkey's The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven: A Remarkable Account of Miracles, Angels, and Life Beyond This World was being withdrawn.

Earlier this week, Malarkey acknowledged in an open letter that he was lying, saying he had been seeking attention. He also regretted that "people had profited from lies".

"I did not die. I did not go to heaven," he wrote.

"When I made the claims that I did, I had never read the Bible. People have profited from lies, and continue to. They should read the Bible, which is enough."

The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven was first published in 2010 and told of a 2004 auto accident that left Malarkey in a coma.

According to the book, co-written by Alex's father, Kevin Malarkey, he had visions of angels and of meeting Jesus.

In 2014, Tyndale reissued The Boy, which on the cover includes the billing "A True Story".

The facts of The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven have long been disputed in the Christian community, which has challenged reports of divine visions in Malarkey's book and other bestsellers such as Todd Burpo's Heaven Is for Real.

Last June, the southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution declaring "the sufficiency of biblical revelation over subjective experiential explanations to guide one's understanding of the truth about heaven and hell".

One of the leading critics has been Malarkey's mother, Beth.

In April 2014, she wrote a blog posting saying the book's success had been "both puzzling and painful to watch" and she believed Alex had been exploited.

"I could talk about how much it has hurt my son tremendously and even make financial statements public that would prove that he has not received moneys from the book nor have a majority of his needs been funded by it," she wrote.

"What I have walked through with Alex over the past nine years has nearly broken me personally and spiritually."

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