Sherri Papini, the woman known as the real-life Gone Girl, has released a new memoir defending her version of events surrounding her 2016 disappearance. In her book titled Sherri Papini Doesn’t Exist: The Lie That Defined Me, The Media That Destroyed Me, and the Truth That No One Heard, she continues to maintain that she was kidnapped and tortured, despite pleading guilty to lying to the FBI about who took her.
According to US Magazine, Papini disappeared during a jog in Redding, California, in 2016 while living with her husband, Keith, and their two young children. She reappeared 22 days later with injuries and initially claimed she was abducted by “two Hispanic women.” However, authorities later discovered she had been with her ex-boyfriend James Reyes, though her story about what happened continues to contain contradictions, leading to her arrest in 2022 for lying to federal agents and mail fraud.
