Real-Life ‘Gone Girl’ Sherri Papini Says She Was Canceled Because Her ‘Story Is Very Relatable’
Sherri Papini’s new memoir — Sherri Papini Doesn’t Exist: The Lie That Defined Me, The Media That Destroyed Me, and the Truth That No One Heard — opens, as most memoirs do, with a disclaimer. It says in part that the book, which came out on June 26, “reflects my personal memories, experiences...
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Her therapist, licensed clinical psychologist
Stephen Diggs, who specializes in personality disorders — the result of early childhood trauma, he says — offers a possible explanation for that. “Lying was one of her defense mechanisms,” he tells
Us. Papini “got rid of… telling outright lies pretty quickly” in treatment, he says, but she would still “evade telling people the truth and get into some conflict because she’d evaded something.”
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Her Life Today
Papini’s focus now, she says, is making restitution and getting her kids back. She was not paid for the doc, and she self-published the book, so if she makes a profit on that, it won’t be for some time. (It should go without saying but I’ll say it anyway: Papini was not compensated for this interview.) She works various gigs for money: freelance writing assignments, geriatric caregiving for family members… When she applies for more traditional work, “they find out who I am, and then they conclude the interview,” she says, “so it is incredibly difficult for me to find a job.”
She makes an interesting point about that: “The restitution is all on me. And James Reyes participated.” That’s true regardless of how you think Reyes and Papini ended up in that house together. He knew she was there for three weeks while authorities were searching for her, and he didn’t come forward. At a minimum, Papini thinks he should have been charged with conspiracy. (That statute of limitations has now run out.)
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She has recently been back in court for two cases not related to her child-custody agreement. In January,
Shawn Hibdon, a man she dated after she got out of prison, sought to evict her from a Shingletown, California, home owned by 33 TEN Properties LLC, of which Hibdon is a managing member and agent. She was in court in June to fight the eviction but tells
Us at the time of our speaking that the two are coming to a settlement. In fact, she says, she’s talking to me from that home.
Elizabeth Elizondo, attorney for Hibdon, tells
Us that Papini is illegally occupying the property and that the case is ongoing.
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