Plot

Sherri Papini now claims her 2016 kidnapping was real, done by ex-boyfriend James Reyes. She previously admitted faking it to hide an affair. She served nearly a year of an 18-month sentence for the false confession.

Out of the blue, Sherri Papini is now changing the facts surrounding her 2016 kidnapping story from Redding, California. She now claims that her mysterious disappearance was, in fact, a real abduction by her ex-boyfriend, James Reyes. She previously had admitted faking the entire kidnapping story to cover up an affair. For this false confession, she received a sentence of eighteen months in prison, but she was released early after a confinement of less than one year.