That's pretty awful, and if your friend contacts the paper, they should at the very least print a correction. Fabricating content is a serious offense, and I'm sure that the Herald would want to know if any of their writers are doing that. Who knows, maybe this writer has a history of similar offenses. How was the original interview conducted? If it was a taped interview, the journalist would be expected to be able to show the recording of the original interview.
As far as legal recourse, it's probably pretty difficult unless the actual content of the article is libellous (paints her in an unflattering light, regardless of whether it's true or not).
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