Warning: The following post contains allegations of sexual assault and child abuse and discussions of suicide . For years, Elisabeth Finch crafted compelling stories as one of the writers and producers of the hit ABC series Grey’s Anatomy . But she was telling tales off-screen, too, lying to colleagues about having cancer and enduring various other traumas that turned out to be deceptions.
Vanity Fair writer Evgenia Peretz covered Finch’s story in a two-part exposé in May 2022 titled “Scene Stealer: The True Lies of Elisabeth Finch.” Now Peacock is covering the scandal in a three-part docuseries, Anatomy of Lies , with Peretz on board as co-director and executive producer. So, ahead of that docuseries’ October 15 debut, what do we know about the real Elisabeth Finch? As Peretz’s exposé recapped, Finch grew up in New Jersey, moved to California, and eventually got a job as a writer on True Blood .
Then came jobs on other shows — including a three-season stint on The Vampire Diaries — before she got a job on Grey’s . She eventually wrote 13 episodes of the medical drama, including “Silent All These Years,” in which she cameoed as one of many Grey Sloan Memorial nurses supporting a sexual assault victim, as seen above. Along the way, Finch told coworkers she had been diagnosed with chondrosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, the same diagnosis Dr.
Catherine Avery ( Debbie Allen , seen with Finch below) dealt with in another Grey’s episode Finch wrote..