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Bombshell Interview: Sherri Papini Now Denies Hoax, Names Her Abductor

Sherri Papini broke her silence about her 2016 alleged kidnapping in a four-part special for Investigation Discovery

Now the woman at the heart of a headline-making kidnapping gives her first on-camera interview since admitting it was a hoax — and what she says in Investigation Discovery’s two-night Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie is truly stunning. “[I am] so sorry for the pain I’ve caused my family, my friends, all the good people who needlessly suffered because of my story and those who worked so hard to try to help me,” Papini said in a statement at the time, noting she was “deeply ashamed” of her actions. Papini was also ordered to pay more than $300,000 in restitution for losses incurred by the California Victim Compensation Board, the Social Security Administration, the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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