Following the exposure of the hoax, Jammal was initially reluctant to comment for fear of legal reprisal. However, in October 1993 he admitted that he made up the entire story. The wood he presented on-screen had in fact been pine found near some railroad tracks in Long Beach, California, which he boiled with spices and baked in an oven. Jammal was critical of Sun's failure to verify his story. "I even gave the production company a piece of the wood to test," he wrote, "but they obviously weren't interested in truth; all they wanted was a good performance. If they had actually been concerned about truth, they should have asked me why Noah's Ark smelled like teriyaki sauce!" A representative for Sun stated that Jammal's segment would be edited from future releases of "The Incredible Discovery of Noah's Ark".