Appearing in Anatomy of Lies is Finch’s childhood friend, Aurora Lee Passin, who grew up with her in Kansas in the ’90s and was also gay. Passin was also the first person to fall victim to Finch’s false claim of having cancer.

Oh my God. Oh my God. It was all a lie. I let her into my home, into my kids' lives. I think she saw her life like a TV series. [Speaker] She would do whatever it takes to get ahead. I have been taken by a genius. I don't know who my wife is. but I needed people to know the truth.

We knew that the story of disgraced Grey’s Anatomy writer Elisabeth R. Finch was bad. But we had no idea just how horrible it really was until we screened Peacock’s three-episode Anatomy of Lies documentary (now streaming).