Mary Jo Buttafuoco (née Connery; born May 15, 1955)[citation needed] is an American author and motivational speaker.
When Buttafuoco answered the door, Fisher—posing as her own (fictitious) sister Ann Marie—offered, as proof of the affair, a T-shirt that Joey had given her with the logo of his auto body shop on it.
She turned to go into the house and call Joey when Fisher shot her in the face with a .25 caliber semiautomatic pistol.
[3] Joey Buttafuoco pleaded guilty to one count of statutory rape and served four months in jail.
She also underwent physical therapy to strengthen her facial muscles, which she explained in an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
"[9] In 2009, Health Communications released Buttafuoco's memoir, Getting It Through My Thick Skull: Why I Stayed, What I Learned, and What Millions of People Involved with Sociopaths Need to Know.
[11] Booklist called the memoir, which was published in July 2009, "strangely compelling," and said that "Readers will want to know – why did she stay with him?