Former ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy writer Elisabeth Finch(The Vampire Diaries, True Blood) Admits to not having any form of cancer. As told by CNN Finch expressed the truth during an interview with The Ankler.
According to CNN during the interview, Finch stated that she didn’t have, “any form of cancer.” Finch even admitted that what she had done was wrong and not okay. Earlier this year The Ankler published a story concerning whether or not Finch’s claims on her health and personal life have been truthful. This was given to the series becoming skeptical of Finch’s claims of having a rare type of bone cancer.
In the interview, Finch admits that her lies started in 2007 after getting knee-replacement surgery because her knee was hurt after a writers strike. Finch states that, “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,” she said. “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.”
Finch kept up with the fabricated stories and according to The Ankler even claimed her own brother had died in 2019 by suicide when in reality her brother is still alive and well. She now feels guilty for the stories that have now cost her not only her work and reputation but also her family members disowning her.
The former writer is starting to feel remorse for her actions as she claims in the interview, “I know it’s absolutely wrong what I did,” she said. “I lied and there’s no excuse for it. But there’s context for it. The best way I can explain it is when you experience a level of trauma a lot of people adopt a maladaptive coping mechanism. Some people drink to hide or forget things. Drug addicts try to alter their reality. Some people cut. I lied. That was my coping and my way to feel safe and seen and heard.”
Representatives of Grey’s Anatomy have been reached out by CNN for any further comments on the matter.