1 year ago
32
Jaime King Gets EMOTIONAL About Playing Sherri Papini
Jaime King recovered the humanity astatine the halfway of a notorious existent transgression saga.
In the caller Lifetime movie Hoax: The Kidnapping of Sherri Papini, Jaime plays Sherri, who was sentenced to 18 months successful situation successful Sept. 2022 for faking her ain kidnapping. In an exclusive interrogation with E! News, Jaime said she was motivated to determination beyond the splashy headlines astir Sherri's notorious case.
"I work a quality communicative astir Sherri and instantly thought that determination were truthful galore different layers that radical are not exploring to this quality being," Jaime told E! News' Francesca Amiker. "Frankly, it made maine upset and it made maine mad."
Jaime took contented with overmuch of the media sum surrounding Sherri's story, which go a shocking saga that garnered fascination crossed the country.
"You could spot this pistillate that's seemingly beauteous and perfect," Jaime said, "and the mode that they told her communicative was fundamentally that she was this terrible, atrocious quality being that did this horrific happening to her household and to the community."
In November 2016, Sherri was reported missing aft she allegedly disappeared portion jogging adjacent her location successful bluish California. Just implicit 3 weeks later, connected Thanksgiving Day, Sherri was recovered wandering alongside a road astir 150 miles distant covered successful bruises with a concatenation astir her waist that was tethered to 1 of her wrists.
Law enforcement yet determined that Sherri had fabricated the full thing and, instead, had been staying with an ex-boyfriend successful Southern California.
She aboriginal pled blameworthy to 1 number of lying to a national serviceman and 1 number of message fraud, and admitted the kidnapping was a hoax. At her sentencing hearing, Sherri insisted she would "work the remainder of my beingness to marque amends for what I person done."
Jaime admits that Sherri, who began serving her situation condemnation successful November 2022, is surely not without fault—but argued that Sherri's afloat communicative isn't that simple.
"She did marque immoderate horrific choices, absolutely," Jaime said. "But I felt similar everybody has a crushed for doing something. No 1 is simply a cleanable individual. I conscionable truly needed to cognize much of the whys. I conscionable don't similar radical being exploited."
Lifetime
Hoax: The Kidnapping of Sherri Papini premieres Jan. 28 astatine 8 p.m. connected Lifetime.
Get the play down the scenes. Sign up for TV Scoop!
