SOURCE MATERIAL: 'Grey's Anatomy' Writer's Maybe-Fake Cancer Columns Quietly Disappear

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In this week’s edition of Source Material, we reveal the latest in a scandal involving the hit TV drama, among other media scooplets.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/greys-anatomy-writer-elisabeth-finchs-maybe-fake-cancer-columns-quietly-scrubbed-from-elle

GREY’S ANATOMY WRITER SCRUBBED

Women’s lifestyle magazine Elle has quietly scrubbed all Elisabeth Finch columns from its website after the Grey’s Anatomy writer took personal leave from the hit Shonda Rhimes-produced medical drama over news that Disney was investigating claims that she fabricated her medical history and wrote alleged lies into the show.

In March, The Ankler reported that Finch was being probed by Disney after network execs were alerted to her “alleged deceptions” by her now-estranged wife. Finch had written several columns for Elle revealing how she was diagnosed with a rare blood cancer, battled with doctors over an alleged misdiagnosis, underwent chemotherapy which resulted in having an abortion, and wrote these experiences—which may have been partly fabricated—into Grey’s Anatomy plot arcs.

All five of her guest columns have been removed from the Elle website, Source Material has learned, with no explanation besides “Oops! We don't have the page you're looking for.” The Hollywood Reporter, meanwhile, has yet to remove or add a note to Finch’s two guest columns, one of which claimed she was sexually harassed on the set of Vampire Diaries and another that explained how her cancer diagnosis became a TV plot line. Reps for both Elle and THR did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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