Gray’s Anatomy author Elisabeth Finch has been positioned on depart as Disney investigates whether or not she fabricated previous illnesses and a historical past of abuse that turned pivotal storylines on the hit ABC medical drama.
In line with The Hollywood Reporter, the human sources and authorized departments at Disney try to find out whether or not among the parts of the author’s alleged previous weren’t correct.
The author and producer is reportedly below suspicion for fabricating or exaggerating a number of health-related circumstances, together with a uncommon type of bone most cancers.
The outlet says that doubt was raised when Finch left the writers’ room to handle a “household emergency.”
Colleagues allegedly known as Finch’s spouse, Jennifer Beyer, and there have been alleged similarities within the story Finch instructed colleagues and Beyer’s historical past.
Beyer reportedly raised these issues with Disney and Shondaland executives, resulting in the executive depart.
“Ms. Finch won’t disclose her personal well being issues. Likewise, she won’t discuss her pending divorce from her estranged spouse, Jennifer Beyer, or touch upon any statements that Ms. Beyer might have made to 3rd events about Ms. Finch,” Finch’s lawyer, Andrew Brettler, of Lavely & Singer, shared in an announcement to THR.
Finch is at the moment going via a divorce with Beyer.
Finch has beforehand spoken to different retailers about her previous, and the way it helped her weave her alleged story into episodes of the sequence.
She has beforehand labored on True Blood, The Vampire Diaries, and Extraordinary Household.
Finch penned one in every of Gray’s Anatomy’s most hard-hitting episodes in 2019, Gray’s Anatomy Season 15 Episode 19, which was titled “Silent All These Years.”
Finch performed a nurse on the episode.
A consultant for Shondaland instructed The Ankler, “Solely Elisabeth can communicate to her private story.”
Gray’s Anatomy has been renewed for Season 19.
The sequence airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. on ABC.
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