Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie

What I saw from Sherri Papini is an attention seeker who showed zero remorse for her actions and what she put so many people through. Seems as tho Sherri has her therapist fooled and her own mother even said on camera that it was NOT a kidnapping, that she was seeking a connection outside her marriage. There are so many lies that you can see her in real time trying to figure her way out of them - it's not even clear to her and so the facts are still not revealed to this day. Instead of full disclosure and accountability, she's throwing her 2 ex's under the bus. If she was so concerned about her children, why did she have this 'affair' in the first place? Seems like Keiths' 'control' stems from the logical mistrust as Sherri proved from the beginning she has the tendency to stray and embellish. Shame Sheri Shame. Keith did what he had to do ( post nup) so the children at least have one parent they can count on for the proper love and support and parenting they deserve. She has proven to be unstable unreliable and untruthful. I commend Keith for his strength at having to deal with this nightmare that Sherri caused the entire family due to her selfishness. Sherri Papini needs to stop playing the victim oh and stop the lying. She may have fooled her therapist but she has not fooled us all.

Dear James,

I'm so sorry Sherri did this to you and that you ever got involved with her. Unfortunately you should have realized she was crazy and a liar while she was asking you to do insane things at your house for 22 days. That said, you don't deserve to be another victim in the path of her tornado.

This girl is such a narcissist that she truly believed this documentary would be good for her and force people to believe her. They can't hide their disorders and she is severely misdiagnosed. She needs money, she needs a good story to get her kids back, she needs every man in her life to be the bad guy so she can be the princess in need of saving. Who paid her money to lie some more for this?!? I'm dumber for having watched it, but I really hoped she'd tell the truth and that James would tell his side. The great thing about it is she lied some more and couldn't hide her crazy no matter how hard she tried.

I initially came to gawk at the woman who masterminded a sensational crime. I then wanted to fast forward through much of her dialogue as I didn't want to give her or her version of events much of my time. The documentary is well done. It doesn't focus on what happened. It focuses on what happened during and after (outside of what the media conveyed) and It gives Sherry the floor to come clean about what really happened. The producers certainly hold her accountable for her past lies and they go to lengths to establish the validity of her statements. Her credibility is left to be determined by the viewer. By not injecting their own agenda ,they seemed to want to get to the bottom of what happened and why -in Sherri's words. So for this, I give it eight stars because it soon became clear that this isn't an easy task. It's hard to know where the truth lies or when one is lying to themselves, I could certainly draw some of my own conclusions from this however, the point was to get her side of the story from her. Like it or not. Once I stopped rolling my eyes I could see that her version is not as exciting as what I may have been anticipating. I also admit, I fast forwarded through some of her longer explanations in one episode because the version from other outlets left me very annoyed with her. I have little room to care how she may have gotten to that point. It also felt clear to me that she wasn't telling the whole truth but that doesn't mean she wasn't. It just means that such an outrageous story warrants outrage. We all know the media goes over the top and that this was over the top to begin with, so maybe there is room for some gray area -there is some food for thought given .And, n the court of public opinion, she is not getting off easily nor is this documentary an attempt to do so.

We finally get her side of the story in her words, not that we were expecting much. The story itself is compelling and this documentary doesn't really rely on that ( or doesn't need to ) it's mostly about the behind the scenes investigation and questioning Sherri now about what actually happened and how and why should we believe her ?' So again, well done in that regard .

It's like someone at HBO went "wait what if we took the opposite stance on this" just for the sake of keeping it relevant and squeezing more money out of it. The production costs are low for documentaries, so they're able to get a lot of money out of just having some people talk about stuff ad nauseam.

But I've followed this case pretty closely. I've watched the interviews with police and FBI. This documentary leaves a lot of details out just for the sake of the narrative. Which is insane. And kind of unfair to the dude she manipulated to drive all the way up to Redding from Southern California just to pick her up and entertain her dumb ideas. They left out her internet searches for like human trafficking and branding.

Anyway, the pacing and style is really good. But this is just a money grab for HBO. Don't waste your time.

A pathological liar, without remorse, in love with herself gets glazed by lip-ring lawyers and a "pick-me" sister in law who is obviously in love with her.

Everyone who is certain of her innocence after talking with her has never experienced a pathological liar.

Even her mother doesn't believe her.

It is insufferable watching a woman spend 90% of her camera time posing for epic and flattering camera angles to try to get a disbelieving public to please believe her.

Sorry, Sherri. Not buying it. Save your lies for the sycophants and the producers looking to make a buck off of your narcissistic lunacy. Enough already.