How Sherri Papini’s Kidnapping Hoax Unraveled & the Shocking Aftermath

When he first saw Sherri in her hospital bed, Keith described, her face was “covered in bruises ranging from yellow to black because of repeated beatings, the bridge of her nose broken. Her now emaciated body of 87 pounds was covered in multicolored bruises, severe burns, red rashes and chain markings. Her signature long blond hair had been chopped off. She has been branded, and I could feel the rise of her scabs under my fingers. She was thrown from a vehicle with a chain around her waist, attached to her wrists and a bag over her head. The same bag she used to flag someone down once she was able to free one of her hands.”

Sherri “suffered tremendously, and all the visions swirling in your heads of her appearance, I assure you, are not as graphic and gruesome as the reality.” He asked for privacy, noting they had “a long road of healing” ahead of them.

However, when Keith first drew back the curtain around his wife’s hospital bed and saw her for the first time since she was found, he said in The Perfect Wife, “the way she looked at me, in that moment, I felt like she was lying.”

But, he continued, once he “started really looking at her” and saw the extent of her injuries, “any doubt I had just disappeared.”