I Lied About So Much

Former Gray’s Anatomy scribe and co-executive producer Elisabeth Finch is copping to having “lied about a lot” on the identical day {that a} docuseries about her Hollywood rise and fall is dropping on Peacock.

In a press release posted to Instagram on Tuesday afternoon, Finch apologized for what she described as a number of falsehoods that affected buddies, household and others near her. Admitting that she had “given nobody any motive to imagine a phrase I say,” Finch mentioned, “‘I’m sorry’ feels just like the smallest phrases in comparison with what I’ve completed, but they’re the truest. I trapped myself within the dependancy of lies, betraying and traumatizing my closest buddies, household and colleagues.”

The author, whose compelling backstory as an alleged survivor of bone most cancers impressed a storyline on the ABC medical procedural however was later thrown into doubt, added, “I’m making amends and expressing my real regret as finest I can when individuals are prepared.”

Finch’s assertion arrives the identical day that the three-part docuseries Anatomy of Lies, investigating her claims and historical past within the leisure enterprise, drops on Peacock. The undertaking, co-directed by Evgenia Peretz and David Schisgall, focuses on the harrowing medical tales that Finch spun throughout her leisure profession, together with that she suffered from the uncommon type of bone most cancers chondrosarcoma, misplaced a kidney and underwent an abortion. (The author additionally wrote about a few of her alleged struggles in publications together with Elle, Shondaland and The Hollywood Reporter.) However eyebrows had been raised in March 2022, when Disney positioned Finch on administrative go away because it launched an investigation into her claims. By the tip of the month, the author took a go away of absence from the present and later that 12 months, she admitted to by no means having any type of most cancers.

Finch’s ex-wife Jennifer Beyer, former Gray’s Anatomy writers Kiley Donovan and Andy Reaser and former USC classmate and author Matt Graham all participated within the Peacock docuseries. The sequence expands on a two-part investigation about Finch, written by Peretz, that initially appeared in Self-importance Truthful.

In her Instagram publish, Finch guarantees to “proceed to restore no matter injury I can and guarantee I’m not the worst issues I’ve completed.” Learn her full assertion beneath.