'Grey’s Anatomy' Writer Elisabeth Finch Blames Cancer And Death Lies On 'Maladaptive Coping Mechanism'

Elisabeth Finch's Former Friends Reveal More Lies

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By Kay on December 14, 2022 at 1:00 AM EST

Elisabeth Finch’s former friends have revealed that the writer's lies were plenty and some we didn’t even get to hear about publicly.

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Elisabeth Finch, More Lies

'Grey’s Anatomy' Writer Elisabeth Finch Blames Cancer And Death Lies On 'Maladaptive Coping Mechanism'
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The disgraced writer’s friends are sharing more traumatic stories from their time with her starting with her 40th birthday party. Instead of ignoring her cancer lie seeing as it wasn’t really affecting her, she decided to double down at the celebratory bash.

“Finchie made an announcement that her doctors from the Mayo Clinic were there but they don’t want to be identified,” alleges one of the partygoers. “We were all wondering who the doctors were.”

“Of course, there were no doctors … This is not a lie that got out of control. It’s a lie that perpetuated her story and made the party better,” claims the old friend who clearly read the interview Finch gave to Ankler.

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Elisabeth Finch’s Friends Can’t Believe How Far She Went

'Grey’s Anatomy' Writer Elisabeth Finch Blames Cancer And Death Lies On 'Maladaptive Coping Mechanism'
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“Her lies are so detailed and so deep. She built her career around this lie and made millions of dollars through it. And she didn’t care who got dragged in,” one friend noted. “Finch is extremely smart and extremely talented. She was able to weave her complex stories and keep everything straight.”

Barbara Wiener a documentary filmmaker and someone who is close to some of Finch’s old inner crowd explained to the New York Post “My friends feel exploited,” she admits. “They had committed a lot of emotional space for Finchie. Now they are hurt and betrayed.”

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Elisabeth Finch 'Ankler' Interview Is Telling

'Grey’s Anatomy' Writer Elisabeth Finch Blames Cancer And Death Lies On 'Maladaptive Coping Mechanism'
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The former True Blood writer sat down with Ankler the publication that exposed her egregious lies and “came clean” about not having cancer and basically never being sick at all just looking for attention wherever she could get it.

She openly blamed her poor decision-making on a “maladaptive coping mechanism” that became a problem for her in 2007 after a knee injury. She relished the attention she was getting from being laid up and unable to help herself.

Since she missed the attention and immediately thought she would fake cancer for more attention. And as she puts it, “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.”

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Ankler also prompted her to say out loud her manipulative ad hurtful lie. “I’ve never had any form of cancer,” she admits.

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Elisabeth Finch’s Lies Spiraled

'Grey’s Anatomy' Writer Elisabeth Finch Blames Cancer And Death Lies On 'Maladaptive Coping Mechanism'
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Finch’s cancer lie was only the beginning; she also lied about losing her brother to suicide; he is actually a doctor in Florida. She also claimed to have lost several dear friends in a synagogue bombing in New York. In reality, she had visited the place of worship back in her college days, no friends of hers perished but many other great people’s loved ones lost their lives and the bombing had a real effect.

Soon after she was exposed, she was put on administrative leave at Grey’s Anatomy and investigated by the HR department at Disney, ABC’s parent company. Brenda Cox, a friend of Finch’s estranged wife Jennifer Beyer revealed more lies from Finch.

“She had commented about the thinning of her hair,” she remembers. “She was helping me to clean something that was a bit gross. I said that I felt bad that she was doing it. She said she didn’t mind because she didn’t have a sense of smell [due to alleged chemotherapy].”

Looking back at it now, Cox is claiming

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