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‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Writer Elisabeth Finch Apologizes for Lying About Having Cancer: ‘I Trapped Myself in an Addiction of Lies’
On the day the docuseries 'Anatomy of Lies' premiered on Peacock, disgraced 'Grey's Anatomy' writer Elisabeth Finch has apologized for lying.
Finch goes on to write that in years since stories in spring 2022 in The Ankler and Vanity Fair exposed her many lies — and revealed her to be a con woman who’d gotten her job on “Grey’s Anatomy” after lying about having chondrosarcoma, a rare cancer — she has “been receiving mental health treatment for nearly three years, and I work hard every day to sustain a life where the truth matters more than anything: The truth is, I married a woman with whom I fell deeply, truly in love.” She then recounts that she fell in love with Jennifer Beyer, a woman she met while they were both in treatment in a mental health facility in Arizona, concluding, “The biggest mistake of my life (alongside lying about cancer in the first place) was saying ‘yes’ to Jennifer’s proposal before I was honest with her.” The three-part docuseries takes apart all of her lies, especially that she had cancer, a ruse that involved shaving her head, and faking chemo treatments and their side effects. She also lied about being sexually harassed by a director on “The Vampire Diaries” on which she wrote, cleaning up a friend’s remains who’d been murdered in the Tree of Life massacre in 2018 and having been abused by her brother.
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