Grey’s Anatomy writer Elisabeth Finch has apologized for faking having cancer after a new bombshell docuseries aired her litany of lies.
Three-part Peacock docuseries, ‘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, took to social media to issue a lengthy apology 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.’
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 (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
Finch went as far as taking ‘puke breaks’ ant work and shaving her head to look like she had undergone chemotherapy
Anatomy of Lies features Finch’s ex-wife Jennifer Beyer, who broke her silence on the nightmare she has lived through the series 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’ ant 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, and eventually, parts of her fake personal narrative ended up in the storylines of the much-loved Shonda Rhimes show.
Her deceit continued to grow 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.
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
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
Seven years after launching the cancer lie, Finch was first exposed by Beyer, who also appears in the docuseries and breaks her silence for the first time.
Beyer began to realize the life she was living with Finch was built on a mountain of deceit after tying the knot in 2020.
As a survivor of domestic abuse from a previous 18-year marriage, Beyer began to understand that her then-wife was extracting her own trauma for storylines on Grey’s Anatomy – specifically for Jo’s character.
Finch was also claiming elements of Beyer’s agonizing past as her own.
Despite Finch being the subject of most headlines, 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,’ US Magazine describes.
Appearing in the docuseries alongside other Grey’s writers and Finch’s coworkers, Beyer unpacks just how her ex-wife was able to get away with her lies for so long.
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
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.
In an interview with journalist Peter Kiefer, she said: ‘What I did was wrong. Not okay. F***d up. All the words.’