Grey's Anatomy Stars Camilla Luddington & Jessica Capshaw Address Writer's Fake Cancer Diagnosis 

Camilla Luddington and Jessica Capshaw are scrubbing in for this conversation. 

The Grey’s Anatomy actresses broke their silence on former writer Elisabeth Finch’s cancer lies following the release of Anatomy of Lies, a Peacock documentary that investigates the scandal. 

To start the Oct. 28 episode of their Call It What It Is podcast, Jessica admitted that she had a problem with lying as a kid until she was caught in one that left her with immense feelings of shame—a trait she sees that not everybody seems to share.

“I’m guessing who people who lie about their identity and do these really horrible things,” Jessica, who plays Arizona Robbins, posited, “that they do not feel remorse or shame about lying.”

Camilla, who plays Jo Wilson, chimed in, “That’s where it gets very creepy if I’m being honest,” then Jessica continued, “And moves into mental health issues.”

Elisabeth began telling colleagues she was battling a rare bone cancer in 2012, but didn’t confirm she was lying until a decade later in 2022. And while Jessica said she wasn’t too shocked when the truth came out, Camilla felt differently.

“It’s hard because you watch these documentaries on Dateline,” she explained. “I’m like this, ‘I would’ve known. I would know that person’s lying.’ And then you have an experience where it basically feels like you’re in a Dateline documentary. And it feels like, ‘I did not know. I truly did not know.’”

The 40-year-old—who shares Hayden, 7, and Matthew, 4, with husband Matthew Alan—admitted that the scandal led her to question her own judgment. 

“I think that kind of throws you for a loop,” Camilla expressed. “Because you feel like your own instinct on stuff is way off. So it makes you question—this is what I don’t like about it—it makes you start questioning yourself. You’re not just questioning that person now, it’s like, ‘Why didn’t I see that? How did I believe that.’ And I don’t like the self doubt.”

Meanwhile, Jessica—who shares Luke, 17, Eve, 14, Poppy, 12, and Josephine, 8, with husband Christopher Gavignan—didn’t blame herself for believing Elisabeth’s lie. 

“It never occurred to me to not believe her,” the 48-year-old said. “The things that she lied about, you could never in a million years imagine questioning.”

Indeed, Elisabeth created a web of lies concerning her fake illness that another former colleague Andy Reaser called “performance art,” in the Anatomy of Lies documentary. 

As Jessica put it, “I was just like, ‘Oh, she was really good at that because I believed her.’"

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