“What I did was wrong,” said Elisabeth Finch, who lied about cancer, abortion, and suicide among other things. “Not okay. Fucked up. All the words.”
“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,” Finch said, apparently “in a voice that starts to quaver,” according to the writer. “I don’t have to worry about that now.”
“We worked with someone who not only said she was sick with cancer but looked sick with cancer,” one of Finch’s colleagues told The Antler. “[Our coworker] lost her hair, whose skin was yellow and green, who had a visible chemo port bandage, who regularly took breaks to vomit, who only ate saltines for long periods of time and who wrote and talked about her experiences all the time.
Apparently, Finch has been personally and professionally canceled, saying her phone doesn’t ring, her emails go unanswered, that her wife left her, and that several family members no longer speak to her. She says she lied because—in short—it was her coping mechanism for trauma she endured from her not-dead brother as a child. She told The Ankler that she wants to write for’s, to see and acknowledge her.“I know it’s absolutely wrong what I did,” she said. “I lied and there’s no excuse for it.
I’m not sure whether we’re supposed to be feeling sympathy for this woman or just gawking at this whole
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