Sherri Papini is firing again at allegations her ex-husband, Keith Papini, made within the 2024 docuseries Excellent Spouse: The Mysterious Disappearance of Sherri Papini. Talking out for the primary time within the new four-part ID docuseries Sherri Papini: Caught within the Lie, Sherri responded to Keith’s claims that she “poisoned” their two youngsters by making them breathe in rubbing alcohol whereas they have been sick.
Sherri claimed that Keith was “livid” when he came upon she was utilizing a secondary cellphone to speak along with her ex James Reyes. “He tried to get me to signal a contract that said that I might relinquish all of my parental rights,” Sherri alleged. “The leverage he had over me was my youngsters. He mentioned, ‘That is the simple approach. If you happen to signal this, that is the simple approach.’ I selected to not signal the contract and the whole lot that I’d been afraid of occurring if I instructed the reality [about James], occurred. Every thing he threatened to do, occurred.”
Six weeks after the confrontation, Sherri mentioned she bought a name from a member of Little one Protecting Companies (CPS), who “questioned [her] about [her] strategies with the youngsters” and requested if she’d “ever inspired [her] youngsters to huff rubbing alcohol from a bag.” She insisted, “It’s essentially the most absurd factor I’ve ever heard. The allegation is that I poisoned my youngsters.”
Sherri revealed that CPS did an “extremely thorough” investigation in 2022, which has “been closed [and] unfounded.” Nevertheless, Keith’s allegations have been made public when he spoke about them in Excellent Spouse two years later.
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Within the 2024 doc, Keith mentioned, “In the future, after Sherri was already in jail, as I’m going and lay my daughter to mattress, I push up and doing, and I form of make somewhat grunt sounds, like, ‘Ah!’ You realize, I used to be somewhat bit sore. Violet, she was like, ‘Daddy, are you sick?’ and she or he goes, ‘Why don’t you do mommy’s trick?’ I used to be like, ‘Mommy’s trick? What are you speaking about?’ She was like, ‘Nicely, you simply breathe on this rubbing alcohol,’ and I used to be like, ‘What?’ She goes to the lavatory, she is aware of proper the place the rubbing alcohol is. She wads up a factor of bathroom paper and simply soaks it after which palms it to me to breathe.”
Keith claimed his daughter instructed him they breathed within the rubbing alcohol “each single day” after they have been sick. “[I] discover out Sherri would soak rags of alcohol and put it in a Ziploc bag and tie a string…” he alleged. “Would tie a string round their neck onto the Ziploc bag… in order that they’d proceed to odor the fumes to make them not really feel good in order that she might take them to the physician.”
Nevertheless, Sherri had a a lot completely different model of the story. “When [the kids] sick, stuffy, nostril is operating, most mothers would need to rub Vick’s on their pores and skin and assist them breathe,” she defined. “My youngsters have delicate pores and skin, so as an alternative of that, I take important oils, and I put it on a cotton ball, and I put it in a fabric bag and I wrap it round their neck. It’s unfastened. It’s clearly one thing that may be pulled off. I don’t allow them to sleep with it. It’s simply one thing to assist them breathe.”
Keith filed for divorce from Sherri in April 2022 after she pled responsible to mail fraud and making false statements. Her responsible plea was a part of a plea settlement the place she admitted to faking her personal kidnapping in 2016 (now, she says she was legitimately kidnapped by Reyes, and claims the one factor she lied about was the id of the one that kidnapped her).
Whereas Sherri was serving her jail sentence, her divorce from Keith was finalized and he obtained sole custody of the youngsters. “My youngsters weren’t taken away from me. They have been stolen by my ex-husband,” she mentioned within the new docuseries. “I used to be by no means dominated as a hazard or a risk to my youngsters. My youngsters have been by no means taken by court docket. They have been taken by Keith. Earlier than I went to jail, he filed an order to get 100% bodily and authorized custody, and it was granted as a result of I used to be going to jail.”
She added that she now has cellphone calls with the youngsters each Sunday, however accused Keith of getting the “tendency to cancel” or “shift the schedule” on the final minute. “It’s been that approach for nearly two years now,” she shared.
Nevertheless, Sherri isn’t giving up. “Sherri continues to battle in household court docket for custody of her youngsters,” a title card on the finish of the collection learn.
Keith didn’t seem within the ID docuseries, however in a press release by way of his lawyer, he denied any “allegations of extreme abuse, manipulation, and mendacity” made by Sherri, insisting that they’re “false and disproven by a mountain of documentary proof and goal, indeniable information.”
Sherri Papini: Caught within the Lie, Monday and Tuesday, Might 26 and 27, 9/8c, ID and Max