Sherri Papini is reflecting on her infamous kidnapping hoax.
Almost 10 years after Papini, now 42, claimed to have been kidnapped and held captive for 22 days in 2016, she is telling a new side of the story in a new Investigation Discovery docuseries, Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie.
“Haven’t you ever lied?” Papini said in a trailer for the series released April 30. “And then has that lie been blown up?”
Indeed, Papini was charged in 2022 and subsequently served 18 months in prison for the crime after lying to authorities about an alleged kidnapping.
And while the California resident—who shares kids Tyler, 12, and Violet, 10, with ex Keith Papini—pleaded guilty to a single count of mail fraud and one count of making false statements in the cast, she is now claiming that her falsified story was partially true.
“I went missing in 2016,” she added in the trailer for the series, which premieres May 26. “I was gone for 22 days. I was tortured, I was branded. I was chained to a wall. All of that is true. I did keep some secrets from you, though.”
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