Overview
- The four-part docuseries Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie aired May 26 and 27 on Investigation Discovery and is available to stream on Max.
- In the series Papini revises her account, claiming ex-boyfriend James Reyes abducted her for 22 days rather than being her co-conspirator in a hoax.
- Dr. Stephen Diggs, Papini’s longtime therapist, publicly endorses her revised narrative and cites evidence of genuine trauma.
- Reyes denies abducting Papini, insists she directed him to inflict injuries, and passed a polygraph test when interviewed by police in 2020.
- Papini’s 2022 guilty plea to mail fraud and false statements led to an 18-month prison term and triggered a divorce and ongoing custody battle initiated by her ex-husband, Keith Papini.