California mom Sherri Papini who faked kidnapping reenacting disappearance for docuseries

Coming clean hasn’t been easy for Sherri Papini.In 2022, the California mother of two was sentenced to 18 months in prison for faking her own kidnapping so she could go back to an ex-boyfriend.Her disappearance resulted in a three-week multi-state search before she surfaced on Thanksgiving Day in 2016.Now, the 42-year-old is reenacting her disappearance and taking a lie detector test in the Investigation Discovery (ID) true crime docuseries, “Sherri Papini: Caught in a Lie.” “She really did not want to do either one of those things, but I think she saw this as her one shot at getting her story out, and she was going to do whatever it took,” director Nicole Rittenmeyer told Fox News Digital.“We made sure that we were in close contact with her therapist,” Rittenmeyer explained.

“We had safe words in case she couldn’t handle stuff.She had emotional support, and humans were there for her so she could get a hug.”Despite Papini’s hesitations, she ultimately agreed to do both for the docuseries and have it filmed.

She’s now alleging that she was the victim of a violent kidnapping.The lie detector test was conducted by polygraph expert Brett Bartlett, a retired police officer with 20 years of experience in law enforcement. In the docuseries, Bartlett told Papini that he believed her when she claimed that she was not free to leave her former boyfriend James Reyes’ home and that she didn’t ask him to brand her on her right shoulder.When Papini was asked if she planned to travel to Southern California with Reyes, she said no.However, Bartlett told her, “Your body is telling me otherwise.”“I remember making a plan with James,” said Papini.

“Leading him on.So that we could talk.

[I kept] telling him that I wanted to be with him.There was a lot of leading him on to keep him interested.”Rittenmeyer said Papini was “very anxious” after cameras stopped rolling.“She was very mad at herself for not being as forthcoming,” said ...