‘Anatomy of Lies’ Team on How the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Cancer Scammer Elisabeth Finch Got Away With It

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Hunter Ingram Even before Evgenia Peretz’s two-part Vanity Fair story about the long con of former “Grey’s Anatomy” writer Elisabeth Finch went to print in 2022, her husband, filmmaker David Schisgall, was already warning her that Hollywood would snatch up this story if she didn’t. “I remember sitting in our bedroom, and hearing more and more about what she was reporting and just saying to her: ‘This is a documentary.

Either you are going to make it or someone else will,’” Schisgall tells Variety. He isn’t wrong. As is repeatedly stated in “Anatomy of Lies,” Peacock’s new docuseries co-directed by Peretz and Schisgall, Finch’s story is tailor made for Hollywood.

An aspiring writer with experience on shows like “True Blood” and “The Vampire Diaries,” Finch desperately wanted a job writing for her favorite series, “Grey’s Anatomy.” But it wasn’t until she published articles about her devastating battle with a rare form of bone cancer known as chondrosarcoma that her work was brought to Shonda Rhimes, and she got her wish.

Finch was hired in 2014 and eventually rose to the rank of co-executive producer, making a notable mark on the show’s narrative by infusing her writing with the harrowing details and heroic resiliency of her own battle with cancer.