‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Writer Admits She Lied About Cancer Diagnosis, Dead Brother

Elisabeth Finch, a screenwriter for the hit ABC drama “Grey’s Anatomy,” admitted to lying about her cancer diagnosis and the death of her brother. She said that trauma led her to spin her web of lies.

“I’ve never had any form of cancer,” she admitted to the Ankler in an interview published Wednesday. “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,” Finch said....