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🗓️ 11 June 2025
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8 years ago, Sherri Papini was arrested on federal charges arising from her alleged fabrication of abduction. Six weeks later, she signed a plea deal admitting she had orchestrated a hoax and spent 18 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release and was ordered to pay restitution. Now, she’s here to explain her side of the story. Is Sherri a compulsive liar? Or victim to a biased media narrative? You decide for yourself.
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0:00.0 | You're crazy. |
0:13.0 | Sherry Pupini, welcome to the Vial Files. |
0:15.6 | Thank you for having me. |
0:17.0 | Well, thank you for coming. |
0:18.7 | I imagine these much kind of give you anxiety or, you know, you get nervous talking about this story or do you look forward to it because, you know, so many people have doubts? |
0:31.0 | Talking about the story, no. Coming on things like this and definitely not used to the microphones and cameras. Yeah, this definitely isn't |
0:38.1 | normal. It's not normal. Our hope is always when we have these, whether it's obviously a more |
0:44.4 | serious, heavy topic like this or, you know, talking to our friends is to just be, you know, |
0:50.7 | people in a room having a conversation, you know, rather than it feeling like an |
0:54.4 | interview. So that's, you know, ultimately our goal. So hopefully that can rest you at ease a little |
0:59.7 | bit. We just got done watching the new docus series on Max. Have you had a chance to see it? |
1:03.9 | Yeah. And I actually saw it just like everybody else. You know, I, I didn't have creative |
1:08.6 | control on the documentary and wasn't a part of that. So I saw at the same time everybody else did. |
1:15.4 | How did that opportunity present itself? When did you first find out that HBO wanted to do this docu-series? And why did you decide to be a part of it? |
1:24.6 | You know, it was a big collaboration with a team that I've been working really closely with. |
1:30.8 | And I really had no idea that HBO was going to pick it up. |
1:34.7 | I'm just the subject. |
1:36.1 | You know, that's kind of not really a part of anything else there. |
1:39.3 | But it was something that I'm incredibly grateful for. |
1:43.2 | It was quite shocking. |
1:44.9 | What was shocking about it? |
1:45.9 | That HBO was going to be producing it. |
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