Following the twisted inner world of Grey's Anatomy writer and co-producer Elisabeth Finch being uncovered - including her lies of having cancer - a three-part docuseries is now on the way.
Any Grey's Anatomy fan, as well as some people who haven't watched a second of the 21-season-strong show, will know that Finch's intricate lies and double life were revealed in 2022 after she abruptly left the show.
It emerged that the writer of the medical drama had lied about being diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer, suffering an abortion while undergoing chemotherapy, and losing a kidney.
Some of these outright lies had also been written into the show as plot lines.
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Streaming platform Peacock is set to release the docuseries on 15 October, Anatomy of Lies, which will explore the messy falsehoods Finch told over the course of a decade. The series presents testimony from the ultimate whistleblower, Finch's now ex-wife, Jennifer Beyer.
Directed by Evgenia Peretz and David Schisgall, it promises to be explosive.
Peretz, who is also a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, told the outlet: "[Beyer] is such a sympathetic character, and she's been through so much. I thought that there was more to say about her life than I could fit into the article.”
When researching a tip-off that there may be more than meets the eye with Finch's well-known stories, Peretz met up with Beyer and learned the story.
It transpired that Beyer and Finch had met in a mental health treatment centre in Arizona in 2019. By 2020, they were married.
Reality began to set in, and Beyer began to realise that her wife was using her own personal stories as material for a Grey's Anatomy character called 'Jo', and passing off traumatic parts of her life as her own.
Peretz's eventual story, exposing Finch's lies, led to her departure from Grey's Anatomy.
While Finch initially tried to pass Beyer off as not 'reliable' due to a 'contentious divorce,' she eventually owned up.
In an interview with The Ankler in December 2022, she said: "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.”
During her time in the Grey's Anatomy writer's room, Finch shaved her head to feign the effects of chemotherapy and taped a fake catheter to her arm.
It was then noted that further lies of Finch's included losing a close friend in a terrorist shooting, and that her brother had died by suicide.
In the same interview, she added: "When you get wrapped up in a lie you forget who you told - what you said to this person and whether this person knows that thing - and that’s the world where you can get caught. I don’t have to worry about that now.”
Anatomy of Lies is released by Peacock on 15 October.
Topics: Grey's Anatomy, Cancer, Health, Women's Health, TV And Film
Kya Buller