Grey's Anatomy liar Elisabeth Finch who faked cancer breaks her silence
Anatomy of Lies' docuseries
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By Laura Parnaby
Grey's Anatomy writer Elisabeth Finch has apologized for faking a cancer diagnosis after a new bombshell docuseries aired her litany of lies.
Three-part Peacock series, 'Anatomy of Lies', delves into the disturbing web of deception Finch spun to inspire episodes and get ahead in Hollywood.
As the series began streaming Tuesday evening, Finch, 47, issued a lengthy apology on social media while pledging to become a better person.
'I’ve given no one any reason to believe a word I say,' Finch, who confessed about her fabrications in December 2022, wrote on her Instagram story.
'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 (far right in surgical cap) appeared in a few episodes of Grey's Anatomy. She used elements of Beyer's past trauma in some episodes as well as her own fake personal narrative
'I trapped myself in the addiction of lies, betraying and traumatizing my closest family, friends, and colleagues,' Finch continued.
'I'm making amends and expressing my genuine remorse as best I can when people are ready.'
Finch also declares her enduring love for her ex-wife Jennifer Beyer, saying her 'biggest regret' was 'saying "yes" to Jennifer's proposal' before being honest with her about the cancer lie.
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Beyer breaks her silence on the ordeal through Anatomy of Lies for the first time.
'When you love somebody, you'll ignore red flags until they're hitting you in the head,' Beyer tells viewers.
'I don't know who my wife is,' she said in tears about discovering the truth about Finch.
Finch, who also helped write True Blood, pretended she had a rare bone cancer called chondrosarcoma from the age of 34, for almost a decade.
She went as far as taking 'puke breaks' at work and shaving her head to look like she had undergone chemotherapy.
Finch also claimed the treatment cost her a kidney and forced her to have an abortion.
Eventually, parts of her fake personal narrative ended up in the storylines of the much-loved Shonda Rhimes show.
Meanwhile, Finch's deceit continued to balloon as she lied about being close friends with one of the victims from the anti-Semitic mass shooting attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, and about her brother - who is still alive - dying by suicide.
Grey's Anatomy writer Elisabeth Finch has apologized for faking having cancer in a lengthy Instagram statement, after a new bombshell docuseries aired her litany of lies
Finch went as far as taking 'puke breaks' at work and shaving her head to look like she had undergone chemotherapy during the decade-long deception of her coworkers and friends
Seven years after launching the cancer lie, Finch was first exposed by her estranged wife Jennifer Beyer (pictured), who speaks out for the first time in the Peacock docuseries
Seven years after launching the cancer lie, Finch was exposed by Beyer, a couple of years after they tied the knot in 2020.
As a survivor of domestic abuse from a previous 18-year marriage, Beyer understood that her then-wife was extracting her own trauma for storylines on Grey's Anatomy - specifically for Jo's character.
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Finch was also claiming elements of Beyer's agonizing past as her own.
Anatomy of Lies places Beyer at the center of the narrative that she is attempting to reclaim from a 'convincing storyteller who showed no signs of stopping'.
She also unpacks just how her ex-wife was able to get away with her lies for so long.
In December 2022, Finch admitted that she had lied about her personal and medical history and confirmed she had not had any form of cancer.
She said she taped a catheter to her arm and shaved her head to appear as though she was undergoing chemotherapy.
Finch also admitted that her brother had not died by suicide and is currently living in Florida.
During an interview with journalist Peter Kiefer who first broke the story of her lies, she said: 'What I did was wrong. Not okay. F***d up. All the words.'
'I told a lie when I was 34 years old and it was the biggest mistake of my life. It just got bigger and bigger and bigger and got buried deeper and deeper inside me.
I've never had any form of cancer. I know it's absolutely wrong what I did. I lied and there's no excuse for it.'
The pair met in 2019 while both were patients at an Arizona mental health treatment center where Beyer was being treated for severe PTSD following an 18-year-long abusive marriage
Finch's ex-wife Jennifer (right) who is a nurse, became suspicious of her wife's lies after tying the knot in 2020
Finch (left) with one of the show's stars - she was put on administrative leave following the initial allegations and then took a leave of absence from the show - but never returned
She claims the 'context' of the lie is that she suffered 'years of medical purgatory' after hurting her knee while hiking, and requiring multiple surgeries to fix it.
'What ended up happening is that everyone was so amazing and so wonderful leading up to all the surgeries.
'They were so supportive and then I got my knee replacement. It was one hell of a recovery period and then it was dead quiet because everyone naturally was like "Yay! You're healed!"
'But it was dead quiet. And I had no support and went back to my old maladaptive coping mechanism - I lied and made something up because I needed support and attention and that's the way I went after it.
'That's where that lie started - in that silence.'
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