Kidnapping hoaxer Sherri Papini insists she was 'tortured' for weeks, in first interview since disappearance

The California parent who staged her ain kidnapping successful 2016 is speaking retired for the archetypal clip since her disappearance 9 years agone successful a caller documentary series.

Sherri Papini, dubbed "the cleanable wife," pleaded blameworthy successful 2022 to charges related to faking her ain kidnapping six years prior, but the California ma of 2 is insisting that she was, indeed, kidnapped, tortured and branded successful the 2016 incidental that prosecutors said she staged herself.

"Haven’t you ever lied? And then, has the prevarication been blown up?" Papini asks successful a trailer for the caller docuseries, "Sherri Papini: Caught successful the Lie."

"I went missing successful 2016, was gone for 22 days. I was tortured, I was branded, I was chained to a wall. All that is true. I did support immoderate secrets from you, though," she says successful the trailer.

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Papini's household reported her missing connected November 2, 2016, aft she had near location for a jog successful Redding. Family members had grown acrophobic aft she ne'er picked up her children from time attraction and her hubby discovered her cellphone and headphones on the road. 

She reappeared astir Thanksgiving successful 2016, claiming she had been abducted by 2 Hispanic women. She was inactive wearing bindings, and her injuries included a battered nose, ligature marks, burns, rashes and a branding connected her close shoulder. 

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Sherri Papini departs a kid custody proceeding successful Redding, California, connected Friday, March 21, 2025. Papini antecedently served 18 months successful national situation for faking her ain kidnapping successful 2016. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

Papini claimed to person been kidnapped and held astatine gunpoint by the 2 women and told a communicative of her clip successful captivity. 

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However, during repeated interviews, she changed her story or was not capable to supply cardinal details, investigators alleged. 

Sherri Papini, center, leaves the national courthouse aft national justice William Shubb sentenced her to 18 months successful national prison, successful Sacramento, Calif., connected Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP)

Police determined that DNA recovered connected Papini aft her disappearance belonged to her erstwhile boyfriend, James Reyes. When confronted with that accusation successful a antithetic August 2020 interrogation antecedently obtained by Fox News Digital, Papini became distressed.

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Papini claimed she had been abducted by 2 Hispanic women. She was inactive wearing bindings, and her injuries included a battered nose, ligature marks, burns, rashes and a branding connected her close shoulder.  (CBS screenshot)

She seemingly begged her hubby and constabulary not to prosecute charges against 1 of her fake abductors earlier confronting her with the information that her abductors did not beryllium astatine all.

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The caller documentary, which premieres connected May 26 and May 27 starting astatine 9 p.m. EST, revisits the case, retracing Papini's past steps starring up to her disappearance to her apprehension successful 2022.

Sherri Papini disappeared and aboriginal claimed she had been kidnapped. (Fox News)

"For the archetypal time, Papini volition stock her relationship of events arsenic she recalls them, offering uncommon insights into her mindset during her disappearance and the consequent probe into her abduction claims upon her instrumentality home," a property merchandise from ID states. "'SHERRI PAPINI: CAUGHT IN THE LIE' volition besides chronicle the aftermath of her 2022 blameworthy plea that Papini continues to navigate, including her contiguous custody conflict with her ex-husband, Keith Papini, arsenic she seeks associated custody of their children."

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Papini, present 42, pleaded guilty in April to 2 of the 35 full counts she was charged with — for engaging successful message fraud and making mendacious statements to a national office, prosecutors said. She was sentenced to 18 months successful situation for her costly scheme. 

Sherri Papini departs a kid custody proceeding successful Redding, California, connected Friday, March 21, 2025. Papini antecedently served 18 months successful national situation for faking her ain kidnapping successful 2016. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

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She is presently engaged successful a ineligible conflict with her ex-husband for visitation rights with their 2 children. 

In summation to her sentence, Papini agreed to restitution payments of up to $300,000. More specifically, she was ordered to wage astir $149,000 to the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office, astatine slightest $127,568 to the Social Security Administration, $30,694 to the California Victims Compensation Board and much than $2,500 to the FBI, according to tribunal papers.