‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Writer Elisabeth Finch Apologizes for Lying About Having Cancer: ‘I Trapped Myself in an Addiction of Lies’

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Kate Aurthur administrator On the day of the premiere of Peacock’s investigative docuseries “Anatomy of Lies” — which examines the long cancer scam perpetrated by former “Grey’s Anatomy” writer Elisabeth Finch — she has offered something new: a full apology for her actions.

In a post on Instagram, she begins by writing: “I’ve given no one any reason to believe a word I say. I lied about so much; things so many people have been devastated by in real life. ‘I’m sorry’ feels like the smallest words compared to what I’ve done, yet they are the truest.” 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.” “Anatomy of Lies,” directed by Evgenia Peretz and David Schisgall, paints a damning portrait of Finch.

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.