“I got caught in an addiction to lies”

On premiere day of Peacock’s investigative docuseries “Anatomy of Lies,” which examines the long-running cancer hoax perpetrated by former “Grey’s Anatomy” writer Elisabeth Finch, she’s offered something new: an apology total for their actions. In a post on Instagram, she begins by writing: “I have not given anyone a reason to believe a word I say. I lied so much; things that so many people have been devastated by in real life. ‘I’m sorry’ seems like the most words small compared to what I have done, but they are the truest.”

Finch goes on to write that it was years ago that spring 2022 stories in The Ankler and Vanity Fair exposed her many lies, revealing that she was a con artist who had gotten her job on “Grey’s Anatomy” after lying about having chondrosarcoma, a rare cancer: “I’ve been receiving mental health treatment for almost three years, and I work hard every day to maintain a life where the truth matters more than anything else: the truth is that I married a woman I fell for deeply, truly love.” He then explains that he fell in love with Jennifer Beyer, a woman he met while they were both in treatment at a mental health facility in Arizona, concluding, “The biggest mistake of my life (besides lying about cancer in the first place) was to say yes to Jennifer’s proposal before being honest with her.”

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“Anatomy of Lies,” directed by Evgenia Peretz and David Schisgall, paints a damning portrait of Finch. The three-part docuseries dismantles all of his lies, especially that he had cancer, a ruse that involved shaving his head and faking chemo treatments and their side effects. She also lied about being sexually harassed by a director of “The Vampire Diaries” in which she wrote, cleaning up the remains of a friend who had been killed in the 2018 Tree of Life massacre and the his brother committed suicide. Beyer, his now ex-wife, participated in the Peacock docuseries, as did two of his children.

In varietyIn the interview with the directors of the docuseries released today, Peretz said: “We heard bits of her addressing people who were still asking about jobs. We heard that she has something about her life.”

Maybe this post is trying to lead to that. Finch ends with this: “The truth is, there is no excuse or justification; nothing will ever make my lies to anyone okay. Nothing erases the trauma I caused: the fear, the pain, the rage, the tears, time. And I care about nothing more than being responsible in every way. I’ll continue to repair all the damage I can and make sure it’s not the worst thing I’ve done. I recognize that it will take time for people to believe it “.

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