She grew up in a middle-class Jewish family in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. At least from the outside, Finch’s early life seems fairly normal. Those who’ve known Finch the longest have looked back at her young life for clues. People close to Finch from the distinct compartments of her life have been grappling with the idea that the woman they loved may not exist. (In response to detailed questions for Finch regarding information from multiple sources, her attorney Andrew Brettler contended that not all of Beyer’s claims were true, and asserted that Beyer was neither “reliable” nor “unbiased” because the two women are in the midst of a “highly contentious divorce.”) She was taking their empathy and tears, as well as other people’s personal traumas, which she would call her own. As had Finch’s friends and family members. If what Beyer was saying was true, Rhimes-and all of Shondaland-had been Delvey’ed. But this time, Rhimes did not respond…and did not respond. Rhimes knew of Beyer she had even advised Finch about matters concerning the couple’s future together and Beyer’s kids. And its message was not just unlikely, but unthinkable: Finch, Beyer wrote, had been telling stories and it was time to stop believing her. It was from an unlikely sender- Jennifer Beyer, a struggling mother of five from Kansas and a registered nurse who had married Finch in 2020 though they were by now estranged.
Then, in February of this year, just as Rhimes was dropping the splashy first release she created under her Netflix deal, Inventing Anna, about con artist Anna Delvey, she received an email on her private account.
He was so vindictive that he was intentionally unsuccessful, and Finchie was the one who had to pull the plug. Her brother, Finch was realizing in midlife, had abused her many years ago. A dear friend was killed in the Tree of Life synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh, where Finch went to college, and she helped to clean the friend’s remains off the floor-the FBI allowed it. There was the kidney transplant she needed, due to something cancer-related. She faced the awful dilemma of aborting the child or dying if she wanted to carry it, because she’d have to cease treatment she chose to have an abortion. Against all medical odds due to her cancer treatments, she became pregnant. Other terrible things seemed to befall Finch, some of which she chronicled for the world, some of which she talked about in select company. She wasn’t one to draw attention to herself, no. And she even chronicled her experience with chondrosarcoma on the side-in Elle and The Hollywood Reporter, and on, to promote her episodes. When cancer story lines came up on the show, Finch led the way-she was the expert. Friends there drove her to and from appointments. Her bosses gave her all the time off she needed to participate in her maintenance chemo and clinical trials at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. And she so inspired everyone around her that they did whatever they could to support. She showed up so bravely to the Grey’s Anatomy writers room, a scarf over her bald head.
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In fact, she was the only one in her clinical trial who survived.
Not only was chondrosarcoma unheard of in someone her age, but she was, incredibly, living with it, since 2012. Still stubborn as hell.”Įveryone in Finchie’s world, as they called her, believed she was that miracle. Yes, I was down 17 pounds, bald, vomiting relentlessly, but I was still living alone. Cryptic’s orders to take an indefinite leave of absence from work-he thought chemo deserved my sole attention-he doubted my commitment to getting well.” And when it came to work-she was a writer on The Vampire Diaries-she was unstoppable: “I watched the producers’ cuts under a fog of Demerol, punched up dialogue about vampire-werewolf hybrids with a shunt in my spine.
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Not only did the writer have a harrowing personal story-currency in Hollywood-her dialogue had a dramatic punch: “ said, ‘There’s something we need to discuss.’ Chondrosarcoma… ‘I’ve never seen anything like this, especially in someone your age…Nothing about this is going to be easy.’” Finch was a feisty Woman in a Man’s World, and she channeled the doctor-nicknaming conventions of a certain hit medical TV show: “When I defied Dr. Read Part 2 of this story on how Elisabeth Finch twisted her wife Jennifer Beyer’s traumatic past into her own false narrative.