Peacock’s new docuseries, Anatomy of Lies, has just as many twists and turns as Grey’s Anatomy, the show that Elisabeth Finch worked on while she allegedly faked cancer and trauma. Now, her story is here for everyone to see in the streamer’s three-part docuseries, which chronicles the allegations of abuse and trauma from Finch as she rose in the ranks in the writer’s room at Grey’s.
Who is Elisabeth Finch?
Finch worked as a writer and consulting producer on Grey’s Anatomy before resigning in 2022. Her writing credits also include the shows True Blood and The Vampire Diaries.
In a since-removed article for Elle, Finch shared that she had been diagnosed with chondrosarcoma, a form of bone cancer. That caught the attention of Shonda Rhimes and Finch was hired to work on Grey’s.
People reports that during Finch’s tenure at the beloved show, the team wanted to fire her, but former Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal writer Mark Wilding shared that executives allegedly said, “You can’t fire Finchy. Finchy has cancer. She has to stay on the show.”
Did Elisabeth Finch fake having cancer?
Finch’s former coworkers described seeing her looking and acting ill at work, People adds.
“There was a day in the writer’s room that she was wearing sort of like a low-cut sweater,” fellow Grey’s Anatomy writer Kiley Donovan told the publication. “And I noticed for the first time that I could see her chemo port on her chest, and I’d never seen one on a person.”
“Finch was taking breaks to go to the bathroom and throw up from the chemo, and it started to really feel like I’m going to attend this person’s funeral, but my sense that I got from her is that she didn’t want to confide in people about her cancer,” Andy Reaser, who also worked on Grey’s, shared.
Fans of the show will remember that Debbie Allen’s character, Catherine Avery, was diagnosed with chondrosarcoma—Finch was one of the writers who worked on that storyline.
Did Elisabeth Finch fabricate accusations on the set of The Vampire Diaries?
According to a 2018 Hollywood Reporter, Finch claimed that she was being harassed by an unnamed director on the set of The Vampire Diaries. According to an editor’s note, the story was removed because Finch’s story had been disputed and found to be fabricated.
“Three minutes into a rehearsal on my episode of The Vampire Diaries, the director screams, ‘If I wanted to talk to a nagging c—, I’d go home to my wife.’ I laugh for every damn day of that shoot. Laugh through his food jokes about actresses’ bodies and lingering hugs and clammy hands on the back of my neck, giving me massages I never want but allow anyway,” Finch wrote, per Anatomy of Lies. The series added a note that reads, “Finch has never publicly retracted her accusations against the unnamed Vampire Diaries director.”
Did Elisabeth Finch lie about her brother’s suicide?
In September 2019, Finch’s now-estranged wife, Jenn Beyer, learned that her husband died by suicide while in Los Angeles. After Finch and Beyer learned of the death, they returned to Beyer’s home state of Kansas—and Finch’s coworkers shared that Finch would tell them that her own brother had taken his life.
Donovan shared that Finch said her brother “had left some sort of note implicating Finch for the reason that he did that.”
“It was such a dramatic story that it could have come straight out of Grey’s Anatomy,” Donovan added. “And in fact, we did do an episode many years ago where Meredith recalled her mother’s attempted suicide under very similar circumstances.”
People reports that what actually happened was that Finch was simply spending time in Kansas with Beyer.
Did Elisabeth Finch lie about kidney surgery?
Beyer shared that shortly after she and Finch got engaged in 2019, Finch shared that she was experiencing health issues.
“She was complaining that she knew she had a kidney stone because she’d had him before, and that’s a big concern, because she had told me she only had one functioning kidney because chemotherapy had destroyed the other,” Beyer said. “So, I was really worried about her.”
Later, Beyer learned that Finch’s kidneys were functioning correctly and overlooked the fact that her future wife was lying to her.
“When you love somebody, you’ll ignore red flags ’til they’re hitting in the head,” Beyer said.
The docuseries also revealed that in March 2017, Finch claimed that she received a kidney transplant from True Blood actress Anna Paquin.
“When I first started working with Finch, I heard through the cloud of rumors that she lost a kidney because of the chemo, and her good friend, Anna Paquin, is giving her a kidney,” Donovan said. “I remember being like, ‘Wow. I had no idea that they were that close. What a selfless move like this is amazing.'”
Wilding confirmed the claims, saying, “Finchy hinted very strongly that Anna Paquin didn’t want anyone else to know about it. When she went to get her surgery, Finchy had a friend texting people at Grey’s about how the surgery was going on Finchy’s phone. We heard the actual kidney operation was very touch-and-go, to the point where some of the writers told me that Shonda was crying the night of the operation because she felt that Finch might die.”
Did Elisabeth Finch lie about going to the Tree of Life synagogue?
After the Tree of Life synagogue shooting on October 27, 2018, Finch claimed to have visited the site of the incident.
At the time, she shared a tweet that read, “As someone who stood amidst the Pittsburgh synagogue carnage, I’ll just say: My heart is broken. My brain is broken.”
Wilding recalled feeling unsure about the incident, citing that it was odd for her to claim to be among an active crime scene as a civilian.
“I remember talking to Andy Reiser, and I said, ‘Do you understand how odd that sounds? The fact that she had to go in, you know, scoop up her friends’ brains?’ I mean, that’s pretty heavy-duty,” Wilding said. “Also, the FBI is there. It’s a crime scene. And he said, ‘You know, I’m a Christian, and I don’t necessarily know all the tenets of the Jewish faith.’ I certainly didn’t think to question her.”
Did Elisabeth Finch and Jennifer Beyer get divorced?
In 2020, Beyer started to realize that Finch’s stories were starting to get inconsistent. She eventually used social media to find out all the variations in her then-wife’s stories and noticed that everyone was getting a different story. The two separated in 2021.
“I started noticing a pattern for her. It’s like other people are getting attention so Finch is triggered,” she shared in the show. “She needs the attention on her. She needs the care. And then I realized there’s something going on there, and things are not matching up.”
“I started looking at her Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, comparing her stories to what she’s told me and what she’s posting online,” she added. “I was scrolling as far as I could scroll, but then all of a sudden, I find there’s posts the date of the [Tree of Life Synagogue] shooting. She’s not in Pittsburgh. She’s at a bar with her friends. She told me she was there. Things aren’t matching up at all. What the hell is happening?”
Anatomy of Lies is streaming now on Peacock.
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