Grey’s anatomy writer who based episodes on her own stories of battling cancer and having an abortion admits she made it all up for attention: ‘I lied, there’s no excuse’.
Elisabeth Finch, 44, confessed to The Ankler that she lied about everything. She told producers at Grey’s Anatomy she was battling cancer and had to have an abortion because of her chemotherapy.
Finch now confesses that she made it up ‘for attention’: ‘There’s no excuse’
She was first exposed by her ex-wife, a nurse who she met in 2019, seven years after launching the cancer lie. Finch now claims her lies are the result of her PTSD, depression, anxiety and ‘childhood abuse’.
‘What I did was wrong. Not okay. F***d up. All the words,’ Elisabeth Finch admits in the interview with journalist Peter Kiefer – who first broke the story of her lies for The Ankler.
Finch went to such great extents to conceal the cancer lie that she had friends drop her off at the famed Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, pretending she was having treatment inside, only to roam the halls to kill time while her friends waited outside.
‘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.’
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.
She also claimed it was the result of the ‘trauma’ of her older brother ‘abusing’ her when they were kids.
Finch’s was hired to work on Grey’s Anatomy in 2014, and for years pretended that she was forced to undergo grueling chemotherapy. She claimed the treatment cost her a kidney, part of her tibia and forced her to have an abortion.
She also described her medical ordeal in articles for Elle, The Hollywood Reporter and Shondaland, the website created by Grey’s Anatomy producer Shonda Rhymes.
