Katharine Hepburn at Dick Cavett's II

Mann says:
So she them a legend instead. To Dick Cavett she admited she tended "to embroider" the accounts she tolds of her life...

But She had told:
Well, when - see, I don' stick to the subject, you see, I embroider it - when I went out to California, I was on a train and it took three or four days to get there, in those days, and I went out on the back of the platform to look at the moon, and I got a steel filling in one eye, which inmediately became bright red, and had a piece of filling embedded in the white of the eye.....