‘Grey’s Anatomy’ stars react to writer who faked her own cancer: ‘Never occurred to me to not believe her’

Two “Grey’s Anatomy” stars person spoken retired astir Elisabeth Finch, nan erstwhile writer for nan show who faked having cancer.

Finch’s communicative was precocious explored successful nan Peacock docuseries “Anatomy of Lies,” which addressed her web of lies that caused her to get fired from “Grey’s” aft moving arsenic some a writer and a shaper from 2014 to 2022.

Jessica Capshaw and Camilla Luddington, who play Arizona Robbins and Jo Wilson connected nan series, respectively, addressed nan documentary connected Monday’s section of their “Call It What It Is” podcast.

“It ne'er occurred to maine to not judge her,” said Capshaw, 48. “The things that she lied about, you could ne'er successful a cardinal years ideate questioning.”

Luddington, 40, asked Capshaw astir not being wholly “surprised” that Finch was lying astir her crab diagnosis.

“It’s truthful difficult to explain,” Capshaw began. “Of people I was amazed that she wasn’t who she really said she was, and she was not reporting immoderate experiences that were really hers. But I wasn’t amazed that personification could do that. And I benignant of conscionable felt like, ‘Oh, well, she was really bully astatine that because I believed her.'”

“But again, I was not sitting successful nan spot of nan female who she joined and represented a wholly different life to,” Capshaw added. “That feels for illustration a movie.”

Luddington declined to talk astir her individual acquisition pinch Finch connected nan group of the long-running ABC show, but she did stock a communicative involving Finch that she’s ne'er told before.

“I retrieve going to Hawaii for nan first time, and I was truthful excited that I could spend going to Hawaii. I was ne'er capable to spend thing truthful tropical and glamorous. And I told everybody that I was going to Kauai, and I was really excited. And I was going pinch my fellow who’s now my husband, obviously,” she recalled.

“I deliberation it was astir 3 days into that travel and [Finch] was sat astatine nan barroom successful nan hotel,” nan British character went on. “The edifice wherever I was successful Kauai, sat successful nan bar, 3 days into my trip. Yeah, she was pinch personification else, and I conscionable retrieve reasoning it was nan astir random coincidence.”

Luddington confirmed that she “told truthful galore people” that she was going to Kauai astatine nan time. “I’m judge I would person told her,” she said, adding, “Is location a world wherever she conscionable happened to beryllium connected picnic astatine nan aforesaid clip arsenic maine astatine that edifice successful Kauai? Sure. There’s decidedly a world wherever that happens.”

“I don’t know,” Capshaw skeptically responded.

“I don’t for illustration nan now questioning of that, going backmost and reevaluating each those things,” Luddington added.

Capshaw recalled seeing Finch “all nan time” connected nan show’s set. She besides said that they had a speech conscionable arsenic Capshaw was leaving nan bid successful 2018.

“When I left, I retrieve she came and recovered maine and we ended up having a really, really agelong speech extracurricular my trailer because she was truthful sad that I was leaving and wanted to talk astir it,” Capshaw explained. “Maybe she wasn’t sad astatine all.”

Finch’s deception was unearthed in a 2022 Vanity Fair expose. Disney subsequently put Finch connected “administrative leave” from “Grey’s” pending an HR investigation.

The writer later resigned from nan show and fessed up to her lies.

She told nan the Ankler in 2022 that her lies “got bigger and bigger and bigger and sewage buried deeper and deeper wrong me.”

“Anatomy of Lies” revealed that Finch fabricated a bony crab diagnosis, lied astir her relative dying by termination and her friend who died successful nan 2018 Tree of Life synagogue shooting, and claimed that Oscar-winning character Anna Paquin secretly gave her a kidney, and more.

Upon nan docuseries’ merchandise connected Peacock connected Oct. 15, Finch issued an apology for her actions connected Instagram.

“I’ve fixed nary 1 immoderate logic to judge a connection I say. I lied astir truthful much; things truthful galore group person been devastated by successful existent life. ‘I’m sorry’ feels for illustration nan smallest words compared to what I’ve done, yet they are nan truest,” she said successful her statement.

“I trapped myself successful nan addiction of lies, betraying and traumatizing my closest family, friends, and colleagues,” she added.