How ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Writer Elisabeth Finch Appropriated Her Wife’s Traumatic Past

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How ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Writer Elisabeth Finch Appropriated Her Wife’s Traumatic Past
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When the star TV writer met a kindred spirit in treatment, it seemed like a love match forged in healing. But as that woman soon discovered, Finch was twisting her new wife’s experiences with domestic violence, suicide, and metal health into Finch’s own stories.

Read Part 1 of this story about the way Elisabeth Finch used lies to create must-see TV here. All of that led to the haunting incident that brought her to the Arizona treatment center. She began having dissociative episodes—breaks from one’s reality and surroundings. On December 27, 2018, a date that’s etched into her brain, she was driving her car with two of her young sons strapped in in the back.

It was just them and two sparkly Hollywood names. Mickey Rapkin, who wrote the book on which Pitch Perfect was based, and Rapkin’s husband, the actor Jason Butler Harner, who performed the ceremony. Soon, the women would start looking for a house in Los Angeles, big enough for the whole family. Rhimes excitedly shared with Finch information about which Los Angeles schools would be a good fit. Those first months of marriage coincided with the arrival of COVID. Finch’s cancer took center stage.

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