In an interview with ABC News on Friday to promote her new memoir, Papini is saying she was indeed kidnapped after all.
This time, she's claiming that she was kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend, James Reyes. During the investigation into her lies, authorities concluded that Papini was staying with Reyes in secrecy while her husband, two children and officials searched for her in 2016.
“I’m not actually asking anyone to believe anything," she told ABC News. "I just am free now, and I have the capacity to speak for myself without being afraid and without having to lie and not being as fearful as I have been before."
Sherri Papini -- the California woman who admitted to orchestrating a hoax about being kidnapped -- alleges in a new book that she was, in fact, kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend, and she was in an emotionally abusive marriage.
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Papini pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about being kidnapped in 2016 and was sentenced to 18 months in prison in 2022.
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