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26-05-2025
- Yahoo
What Actually Happened to Sherri Papini? Inside the Twists and Turns of Her 2016 Kidnapping Hoax
Sherri Papini disappeared on Nov. 2, 2016, from Redding, Calif., and reappeared 22 days later Six years after the disappearance, she was arrested for faking her own kidnapping and admitted to the hoax In the May 2025 docuseries Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie, Sherri changed her story and claimed that her ex-boyfriend abducted her, claims he declined to comment onSherri Papini made national headlines when she disappeared on Nov. 2, 2016. She was allegedly on a run near her home in Redding, Calif., when she claimed to have been abducted. Her then-husband, Keith Papini, reported her missing that evening, and a subsequent three-week statewide search for her took place. After 22 days, Sherri was found walking on the side of a highway. At the time, she claimed that she was kidnapped by two armed, masked Hispanic women and that they had branded and tortured her while she was chained in a bedroom. Authorities investigated the case for six years and later determined that Sherri had fabricated the abduction and had been hiding out at her ex-boyfriend James Reyes' apartment in Costa Mesa, Calif. In 2022, Sherri was arrested for making false statements to a federal agent and mail fraud. She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 18 months in prison. She was released in August 2023. However, upon getting released from prison, Sherri changed her story again and claimed that Reyes "abducted" her without her consent. "The injuries that occurred ... the bites on my thigh, the footprint on my back, the brand, the melting of my skin — I am telling you there was no consent," she alleged in the four-part docuseries Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie, which premiered May 26. Reyes declined to comment on her new allegations. Here's everything to know about Sherri Papini, her 2016 disappearance and everything she's said since. Sherri, born in 1982, was living in Redding, Calif., with her husband, Keith, and their two children — son Tyler and daughter Violet — when she disappeared on Nov. 2, 2016. She was 34 years old at the time of her vanishing. Sherri's then-husband, Keith, reported her missing on Nov. 2, 2016, after he came home and found that she and their young children were not there. He later found her phone and headphones about a mile down the road and learned that Sherri never picked up their kids from daycare. After filing a missing persons report, Keith joined their friends, family and dozens of volunteers over the next few weeks to try and find Sherri. Keith also helped raise thousands of dollars in reward money for anyone who had a substantial lead on his wife's location. Sherri's disappearance made national headlines and caused a statewide search for her. On Nov. 24, 2016, 22 days after she vanished, Sherri was seen walking along the side of a road in Yolo County, Calif. — around 150 miles from her home. Her sister, Sheila Koester, previously told PEOPLE, "I feel like it was a whole world effort, just with everyone posting on Facebook and the news coverage we got. It was an amazing Thanksgiving." Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko told PEOPLE at the time, "She was able to walk to a nearby church but nobody was there at 4:30 in the morning, and then she walked back and was able to flag down a motorist near Interstate 5 and Yolo County Road 17." Sheriff Bosenko revealed that Sherri was immediately hospitalized for her injuries and was able to give authorities "some limited amount of information." Keith saw his wife for the first time at the hospital later that day. "My first sight was my wife in a hospital bed," Keith told PEOPLE in a statement at the time. "Her face covered in bruises ranging from yellow to black because of her repeated beatings. The bridge of her nose broken. She has been branded and I could feel the rise of her scabs under my fingers." Keith further claimed that she weighed just 87 lbs. and that her long blond hair had been chopped off. Shortly after Sherri resurfaced, she told authorities that she was abducted by two Hispanic women who were armed and masked and forced her into an SUV. "These Hispanic females are armed, considered dangerous and they have a handgun, at least a handgun with them," Bosenko told reporters during a press conference at the time. Sherri alleged that the women tortured and branded her while holding her hostage, chained in a bedroom for weeks. She claimed that she escaped after one woman let her leave with a chain around her waist, zip ties tying her hands and clamps around her ankles. At the time, authorities believed her and chalked up any inaccuracies in her story to her feeling traumatized. "We don't have any reason not to believe her. She was abducted, held captive for three weeks and then released," Bosenko said at the time. "Traumatized from the experience and then of course very emotional about being released and then being reunited with her husband ... Sometimes people who have been in a traumatic event, their mind shields them from some of the trauma so they do have limited recollection." However, authorities were never able to identify the women who allegedly kidnapped Sherri, and they soon began to think that there was a different version of events than the ones Sherri concocted. Police continued investigating Sherri's disappearance for years after her return. Shortly after she resurfaced, authorities discovered both male and female DNA on the clothing Sherri was wearing when she was found. In 2020, they matched the DNA to Sherri's ex-boyfriend, James Reyes, per KCRA. In August of that year, police brought in Reyes for questioning, and he claimed that Sherri was actually hiding with him in his apartment in Costa Mesa, Calif. He alleged that Sherri reached out to him to try to "run away" from Keith, whom she claimed was sexually and physically abusive (he denied the allegations). Reyes further claimed that it was Sherri's idea to injure and brand herself and lose weight, and that he never physically hurt her. After 22 days together, Reyes alleged that Sherri missed her kids and asked him to drop her off on the side of a road. On March 3, 2022, Sherri was arrested for faking her own kidnapping. She was charged with one count of lying to a federal officer and one count of mail fraud. One month later, she admitted that her kidnapping was a hoax and pleaded guilty. "[I am] so sorry for the pain I've caused my family, my friends, all the good people who needlessly suffered because of my story and those who worked so hard to try to help me," she said in a statement at the time. "I will work the rest of my life to make amends for what I have done." In September 2022, Sherri was sentenced to 18 months in prison and was ordered to pay $300,000 in restitution, which was spent trying to find her. She reported to prison in November 2022 and was released in August 2023. Just days after Sherri's guilty plea, Keith filed for divorce and requested custody of their two children. "I wish to make it clear that my goal is to provide a loving, safe, stable environment for [his and Sherri's children] and I believe the requested orders are consistent with that goal and the best interests of the children," Keith told PEOPLE in a statement at the time. "I do not want to say anything in the pleadings connected to this matter that would inflame the situation or attract media attention." Nearly two years after she was released from prison, Sherri spoke about the abduction for the first time and changed her story. In the May 2025 docuseries, Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie, she denied that she had anything to do with her disappearance and alleged that it was not consensual. Instead, Sherri claimed that Reyes abducted her after she asked him to come to Redding, so she could end their long-distance affair (he was allegedly unaware of her intentions at the time). She claimed that Reyes somehow got her into a car and drove her to his apartment in Costa Mesa, Calif., where he held her for over three weeks. 'I remember waking up briefly in the back of the vehicle and not being able to even keep my eyes open," she claimed in the documentary, out May 26. "And then the next time I woke up was when he was getting me out of the vehicle to go inside, and it was dark ... the bites on my thigh, the footprint on my back, the brand, the melting of my skin — I am telling you there was no consent.' Sherri claimed that she woke up naked in a room in his apartment. 'I wanted to leave. So I tried to pull one of the boards off the window and James came in and hit me in the face. And that's the first bruise that I got," Sherri claimed in Caught in the Lie. "And after being knocked out and waking up, that's when the chain was around my waist, secured with a padlock attached to a cable that was attached to a pole in the closet.' After 22 days, Sherri claimed that Reyes "let me off the chain" and set her free. "I said, my husband's going to find me. He's never going to stop looking for you ... You need to let me go. He was like, 'Well, there's too much has happened.' So it all came down to me. It all came down to my coverup, and that's [when] I agreed to ... make up that someone else did it," she claimed. Sherri further alleged that she agreed to lie about the two women abducting her because she didn't want Keith to discover the affair. 'The truth is, I was concealing an affair from my husband, who [was] threatening to take everything from me if he found out that I was having any involvement [with another man]," she said. Reyes declined to comment on the allegations. After being released from prison in August 2023, Sherri was transferred to a halfway house in Sacramento County, Calif., for two months. She is under supervised release until late 2026. Before appearing in the 2025 docuseries Caught in the Lie, Sherri had stayed silent about her life since the abduction. However, Keith told PEOPLE in 2024 that they were still working on mediating their divorce, and added that he did not keep in contact with her. "I don't make contact with her at all. And I don't even allow it," he said. "She's tried but I just can't. That is her power, her voice, and her manipulation." In the midst of their proceedings, Keith was granted full custody of their children, and Sherri was allowed visitation rights. Keith also claimed to Good Morning America in June 2024 that Sherri had a new boyfriend, but he didn't share his name. Read the original article on People
Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Yahoo
Here's What Sherri Papini's Therapist Thinks Happened During Kidnapping Incident
Sherri Papini went missing in 2016 and originally claimed she was abducted by two Hispanic women — now, she claims that she was actually abducted by her ex-boyfriend Papini is making her new claims in an explosive new four-part docuseries, Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie, premiering on Investigation Discovery on May 26 and streaming on Max Papini's longtime therapist, Dr. Stephen Diggs, told filmmakers he "absolutely" believes his client's new version of events Despite serving time for lying to federal agents about her abduction, California mom Sherri Papini now claims she really was kidnapped — just by someone else — and her longtime therapist says he "absolutely" believes her, adding a new twist to an already infamous hoax. Papini made national headlines in 2016 after disappearing on her afternoon jog near her home in Redding, California. Twenty-two days later, she reappeared, bruised and battered, claiming that she had been kidnapped, starved, beaten and branded by two masked Hispanic women. Investigators were suspicious from the beginning; six years later, after male DNA found in Papini's underwear was traced back to her ex-boyfriend, Papini was sentenced to 18 months behind bars for lying to federal investigators. But now, Papini is back, saying that her story was altered but not entirely fabricated. In an upcoming four-part Investigation Discovery docuseries Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie, the 42-year-old divorced mother-of-two claims that ex-boyfriend James Reyes carried out the kidnapping, rather than helping her stage a fraud as prosecutors alleged. The ordeal began as a consensual emotional affair with Reyes that turned into a nightmare after she "led him on," Papini claims. A combination of shame and a fear that she would lose her children led her to lie about his identity after he released her, she Papini was caught in an earlier emotional affair, her ex-husband Keith Papini had her sign a post-nuptial agreement that would give him full custody of their children and leave her without assets if she was involved with another man."Yes, I lied about my ex-boyfriend's identity. No, I did not lie about a fake kidnapping," she told filmmakers. "I lied about the man who abducted me to keep him a secret. Everything else I said was true." Reyes, who did not return PEOPLE's requests for comment, told investigators that Papini starved herself, and that he administered the various injuries to her body at her direction. He passed a polygraph when he was interviewed by police in 2020. However, in the docuseries, Papini also passed a polygraph when she answered "no" to an examiner who asked her whether she was free to leave during her 22 days with Reyes and whether she asked Reyes to brand her. Papini's longtime therapist, Dr. Stephen Diggs, said he "absolutely [believes] she was abducted." "To think of this as a conscious hoax concocted by Sherri just doesn't fit the facts we have here," he said. Diggs, a licensed psychologist, believes Papini has Self-Defeating Personality Disorder, which is not currently recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. SDPD is characterized by a pattern of self-sabotaging behavior, generally in relationships, and manifests in those who are "passive" and eager to please those around them. "They get into relationships in which they're not fulfilled and then they create a second secret life to get their needs met," Diggs said. "She gets in touch with James so she can have a fleeting moment of getting her needs met and then return to her subservient role [with her husband]," he told filmmakers. "She wanted something short and that's not how it turned out." "I believe that he abducted her and there were details of her torture that she was humiliated and embarrassed to talk about," he continued. "I absolutely believe that Sherri did not ask for this. She did not want this to happen." Diggs believes that his client exhibits genuine signs of trauma — and that, after her work in therapy since 2016, she will never tell a "big lie to the public" again. "I believe what Sherri is telling us now is the truth," Diggs said. "I believe that she has broken through a very difficult defense mechanism of lying, and she is now, most of the time, quite honest. Between our therapy — which she has worked very hard at, and the prison — she has stopped telling the big lies." Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie will premiere across two nights on Monday, May 26, and Tuesday, May 27, from 9 to 11 p.m. ET/PT on ID. Episodes will be available to stream on Max. Read the original article on People
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Yahoo
Sherri Papini Claims She Actually Was Kidnapped and Tortured by Ex
Sherri Papini vanished while jogging in 2016 and reappeared three weeks later with injuries, claiming they were the work of two female kidnappers. In 2022, she pleaded guilty to staging her own kidnapping and spent 11 months in jail. Papini now claims she really was kidnapped and that her ex-boyfriend, James Reyes, kidnapped, beat, and drugged her. After her reappearance, Reyes told authorities it was Papini who asked him to help her run away and stage her injuries. He was never charged.
Fox News
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Woman who admitted to kidnapping hoax undergoes polygraph in explosive new tell-all
Coming clean hasn't been easy for Sherri Papini. In 2022, the California mother of two was sentenced to 18 months in prison for faking her own kidnapping so she could go back to an ex-boyfriend. Her disappearance resulted in a three-week multi-state search before she surfaced on Thanksgiving Day in 2016. Now, the 42-year-old is reenacting her disappearance and taking a lie detector test in the Investigation Discovery (ID) true crime docuseries, "Sherri Papini: Caught in a Lie." "She really did not want to do either one of those things, but I think she saw this as her one shot at getting her story out, and she was going to do whatever it took," director Nicole Rittenmeyer told Fox News Digital. "We made sure that we were in close contact with her therapist," Rittenmeyer explained. "We had safe words in case she couldn't handle stuff. She had emotional support, and humans were there for her so she could get a hug." Despite Papini's hesitations, she ultimately agreed to do both for the docuseries and have it filmed. She's now alleging that she was the victim of a violent kidnapping. The lie detector test was conducted by polygraph expert Brett Bartlett, a retired police officer with 20 years of experience in law enforcement. In the docuseries, Bartlett told Papini that he believed her when she claimed that she was not free to leave her former boyfriend James Reyes' home and that she didn't ask him to brand her on her right shoulder. When Papini was asked if she planned to travel to Southern California with Reyes, she said no. However, Bartlett told her, "Your body is telling me otherwise." "I remember making a plan with James," said Papini. "Leading him on. So that we could talk. [I kept] telling him that I wanted to be with him. There was a lot of leading him on to keep him interested." Rittenmeyer said Papini was "very anxious" after cameras stopped rolling. "She was very mad at herself for not being as forthcoming," said Rittenmeyer. "… I was feeling like she was holding back, and the polygraph broke it open." On Nov. 2, 2016, Papini's husband, Keith Papini, reported his wife missing after he discovered she wasn't home and hadn't picked up their children from daycare. Her purse and jewelry were left behind. An extensive search for the missing mom ensued. It wouldn't be until Nov. 26 that an emaciated Papini was spotted by a driver 150 miles from her home. She was covered in bruises, burns and rashes and was still bound by restraints. The flesh on her back was still blistered with a blurred branding and her long blonde hair had been cut short. Papini told authorities two masked Hispanic women forced her into an SUV at gunpoint and held her captive. Investigators began to question Papini's story. They later discovered evidence that would contradict her stories. In reality, authorities said, Papini was staying with Reyes nearly 600 miles away from her home and had hurt herself to back up her false statements. Papini eventually confessed that it had all been a hoax, and she was staying at Reyes' apartment the entire time she was missing. In the docuseries, Papini said she had an emotional affair with Reyes after being unhappy with her marriage and feared losing her children. But the kidnapping wasn't consensual, she claimed. Reyes' DNA was found on the clothes she was wearing when she was recovered. Rittenmeyer said this is the first time Papini is publicly sharing this account. "She never shared it with anyone except for us and very close members of her family," said Rittenmeyer. "This is going to be the first time Shasta County sheriffs will hear this story when they watch it with the rest of the viewers." Fox News Digital reached out to the Shasta County Sheriff's Office, Keith's attorney and Reyes for comment. According to the docuseries, Reyes vehemently denies kidnapping and abusing Papini. "He maintains that any harm he inflicted on her was done at her direction," the docuseries shared. "He has not been charged with any crime in connection with Sherri's disappearance." When questioned by FBI agents, Reyes claimed that Papini planned "everything," including the decision to use a wood-burning tool to brand her shoulder. He passed a polygraph test. GET REAL-TIME UPDATES DIRECTLY ON THE TRUE CRIME HUB Keith's lawyer told the docuseries that any allegations of "severe abuse, manipulation and lying" are false and "disproven by a mountain of documentary evidence and objective, indisputable facts." In the docuseries, Papini claimed that the descriptions she gave of the two masked Hispanic women were supposed to represent Reyes' mother. She hoped investigators would use it to track down Reyes without her saying he abducted her. But Rittenmeyer told Papini that Reyes' mother was Irish. "OK. I've met her twice," Papini responded. "It had very little to do with his mother and her ethnicity. It was about trying to get them to alert them to his identity without saying his name out loud. Quite frankly, I don't give a f—k whether she's Hispanic or not. It was about James. It wasn't about her." Rittenmeyer said that the docuseries will detail "a specific personality disorder that she has." "I went into this understanding that the conventional wisdom about Sherri is that she's a sociopath, a narcissist who faked a hoax kidnapping to get attention," said Rittenmeyer. "[But]… there are certain ways that Sherri's personality manifests that are very theatrical and can feel performative. And so, given what we understand about her, I think it's basic human nature to be incredibly skeptical. I did not trust anything she said to me. If she told me my mother loved me, I was going to get a second and third source because, even as her lawyer says, she's a convicted liar." WATCH: DR. PHIL CALLS OUT SHERRI PAPINI FOR LAUGHING AS SHE LIED ABOUT BEING CHAINED "What I learned… is that her particular form of personality disorder results in a lot of pleasing," Rittenmeyer continued. "There's an effort to please, which served us well when we did reenactments and the polygraph because she didn't want to do those things, but she did them. "… We assume people lie because they're trying to deceive because there's financial gain or something that they're trying to get over on us. And in the case of her personality disorder, she lies as a protective mechanism. It's like default. She's gotten a lot of therapy, and she's a lot better than she used to be. But… there was so much more nuance to her and why she did the things that she did, and what drove her to do them." In 2022, Papini accepted a plea bargain with prosecutors and acknowledged she made up the story that prompted the frantic search. That same year, Keith filed for divorce. "I am deeply ashamed of myself for my behavior and so very sorry for the pain I've caused my family, my friends, all the good people who needlessly suffered because of my story, and those who worked so hard to try to help me," she said in a statement at the time. "I will work the rest of my life to make amends for what I have done." The plea agreement called for Papini to pay restitution topping $300,000. But today, Papini is adamant that she was a victim. "Haven't you ever lied? And then, has the lie been blown up?" Papini said in the docuseries. Rittemeyer said that Papini, now out with her story, is "working on being a better person." "I do think the person I interviewed is very different from the one… Shasta County interviewed," said Rittenmeyer. "She went through it. She served her time. She's done a lot of therapy… If there's a lesson to take away from this film, I think it's don't lie. You kickstart events and you're going to spiral horrifically out of control."
Daily Mail
22-05-2025
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Sherri Papini's therapist shares stunning verdict on whether he thinks her Gone Girl kidnapping was a hoax
Sherri Papini's therapist says he 'absolutely' believes the Gone Girl faker was genuinely abducted during her infamous hoax kidnapping and hopes she'll soon be vindicated, an exclusive video obtained by shows. Papini claimed she was abducted by two Hispanic women while jogging near her home in Redding, California, in November 2016, and held captive over 22 harrowing days where she was beaten, abused, and even branded by her attackers before managing to escape. Investigators were suspicious from the very beginning, and a six-year investigation would reveal the married mom of two's remarkable tale of survival was nothing more than an elaborately constructed ruse, concocted to conceal an affair she was having with an ex-boyfriend. Papini admitted to staging the hoax in a plea deal with the FBI in 2022, but she has now rescinded her confession in a new documentary, Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie. She now alleges she was abducted all along - she just lied about the identity of her kjdnapper. The 42-year-old now alleges the real culprit was her ex, James Reyes, with whom she'd been involved in an emotional affair in the months leading up to her disappearance. The latest twist in the Papini saga is a tough sell, but one person buying her newest claim of victimhood is her therapist, Steve Diggs. 'I absolutely believe she was abducted,' said Diggs in an exclusive first-look video shared with 'To think of this as a conscious hoax concocted by Sherri just doesn't fit the facts that we have here.' Papini now claims that most of what she told investigators in 2016 was true: she was abducted and held captive for 22 days, and she was tied up, abused, and beaten by Reyes - not two Hispanic women - who tortured her with masochistic acts. She claims she was previously too afraid to identify Reyes as the culprit, fearful he'd come after her and her family and enact violent vengeance. Papini also said she couldn't tell the truth to her husband, Keith Papini, because she was worried she'd never see her children again if he learned of the affair. Diggs, a licensed psychologist in California, believes Papini suffers from Self-Defeating Personality Disorder (SDPD), which is characterized by a pervasive pattern of self-sabotaging behavior, particularly in relationships and life choices. SDPD, otherwise known as masochistic personality disorder, is not currently a recognized diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, but Diggs said the condition can manifest in those who are 'passive' and eager to please others. 'They get into relationships in which they're not fulfilled, and then they create a second secret life to get their needs met,' explains Diggs. Diggs said it's his belief Papini turned to Reyes to have her needs fulfilled in a 'fleeting' exchange, but things didn't go to plan. The shrink believes Papini was tortured as she claimed, and believes she exhibits the clinical signs of someone who has experienced genuine trauma. 'I believe what Sherri is telling us now is the truth,' stated Diggs. 'I believe that she has broken through a very difficult defense mechanism of lying, and she is now, most of the time, quite honest. 'Between our therapy - which she has worked very hard at, and the prison - she has stopped telling the big lies. 'She's never going to tell a big lie to the public,' he added. 'The consequences have been big and she's worked really hard not to do that.' Hoping to add weight to her claims, Papini agrees to submit to a polygraph test as part of the documentary, but the results do little in the way of proving her version of events. Also left unconvinced are Papini's parents. Her mother, Loretta Graeff, told the documentary crew that her daughter definitely wasn't abducted; she just went to desperate lengths to escape a marriage she'd been unhappy in for some time. Reyes declined to speak on camera, but in a statement issued through his attorney, he denied all of Papini's claims. It was DNA found on Papini's underwear after her rescue that eventually led investigators to Reyes' door in 2020. Reyes told the FBI that Papini contacted him out of the blue in 2015 and told him she wanted to run away with him. The pair had previously dated in the early 2000s, but he hadn't heard from her in years. He said she claimed Keith was being physically and emotionally abusive, and she needed to run away or she wouldn't escape her marriage alive. On the day Papini disappeared, Reyes hired a rental car and drove 10 hours from his home in Costa Mesa to Redding to pick her up. 'I didn't kidnap her,' he told FBI investigators in a recorded interview. 'She was just a friend in need asking for help. She was trying to get away from her husband.' When they arrived back in Costa Mesa, Reyes told investigators Papini asked him to place boards over the window of the room she was staying in to keep it dark. He also said she'd lock herself in for hours at a time and also appeared to be intentionally starving herself, often declining to eat more than half a banana. It was when Papini decided she wanted to return home that things took a turn, Reyes said. He claimed Papini began inflicting injuries on herself, burning her arms, striking herself in the face, and even instructed him to brand her with a biblical passage on her right shoulder using a wood-burning tool from Hobby Lobby. Papini was then found by a passing motorist at the side of a road in Woodside, 150 miles from Redding, on November 24, 2016. Her nose was broken, her long blond hair hacked off, and she had restraints around her wrists and ankles. Reyes underwent a polygraph test in 2020 and passed on every question he was asked. He has never been accused or charged with any crimes relating to Papini's disappearance. When asked in the documentary how he was able to pass his lie detector, if what she's saying is true, Papini responds: 'Oh, he's a sociopath.' Papini signed a plea deal in 2022 for lying to investigators. She was released from prison in August 2023, having served 18 months Papini claims she eventually persuaded Reyes to let her go on the basis that she'd never name him to the police. She was arrested in April 2022 and eventually pleaded guilty to lying to a federal agent, receiving a sentence of 18 months in prison. Keith Papini, who had publicly stood by Sherri for years, divorced her within two days of her plea, and the couple has been locked in a custody dispute over their two children ever since. In a statement at the time, Papini said she was sorry for the lies she told and pledged to spend the rest of her life making amends for what she'd done. But now, Papini says she was strong-armed into signing the plea deal by federal investigators and felt compelled to share her 'truth' to address what she calls misconceptions about her character. 'The story that the world thinks they know is that I am a master manipulator who has fooled everyone,' Papini says at the top of the series. 'The Sherri Papini that's out there, it's not me. She's not real. I've gone from teenage sex worker to criminal mastermind to master manipulator. I poisoned my children. [I'm a] liar, cheater, whore... I'm so f**king tired of keeping the secret and living the lie. 'Now I get to tell the truth.'
