being bullied by her school classmates drew worldwide attention to the deadly dangers of bullying. join meganow, anna o brien, phoebe prince s mother in her first and only television interview. thank you very much for agreeing to do this interview. why are you doing it? well, i think a lot of mistruths have been written about phoebe, and i think that it was time to take her back, to reclaim her as ours and to put an end to some of the stories that have been going around. give phoebe her dignity back. there s been so much speculation about what happened to phoebe. were you taken aback by the kind of worldwide attention? very much so. i didn t expect it at all. but the media got involved pretty much the evening of phoebe s death when the superintendent released her name. and it started a whirlwind of intrusion and interest. and the following week the principal and i believe the superintendent with him sent a letter out to all the parents and they posted it on the school w