Keith Papini Says Ex-Spouse Sherri Used Rubbing Alcohol to Make Their Kids Sick

In Hulu’s new docuseries about Sherri Papini’s weird 2016 kidnapping hoax, her ex-husband Keith Papini tells his aspect of the story and claims that he discovered the lady he was as soon as married to allegedly made their children sick on function.

In Nov. 2016, Sherri was lacking for 22 days because the nation and her family members looked for her. On Thanksgiving Day of that yr, she was discovered alive, and subsequently claimed two Hispanic girls kidnapped her whereas she was jogging close to her Redding, Calif., dwelling.

Practically six years later, she was arrested in reference to the purported kidnapping after investigators found that she willingly stayed at an ex-boyfriend’s dwelling in Costa Mesa, Calif., and precipitated a number of self-inflicted accidents to make her story appear extra plausible.

After years of denials, Sherri admitted to the hoax and pleaded responsible to 1 felony cost every of mendacity to legislation enforcement and mail fraud in April 2022. Days after her plea deal, Keith — who believed for years that his spouse was telling the reality — filed for divorce.

Within the three-part Hulu docuseries, Excellent Spouse: The Mysterious Disappearance of Sherri Papini, Keith alleges that after Sherri went to jail, he discovered one thing else surprising in regards to the mom of his kids.

“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 already know, I used to be somewhat bit sore,” Keith says within the docuseries. “Violet, she was like, ‘Daddy, are you sick?’ and he or she goes, ‘Why do not you do mommy’s trick?’ I used to be like, ‘Mommy’s trick? What are you speaking about?’ She was like, ‘Effectively, 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.”

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Keith then requested his daughter, “How usually did you do that?”

She responded, “Effectively, after we bought sick, we did it each single day.”

“And the subsequent factor I do know, my children are getting forensic interviews completed. Discover out, Sherri would soak rags of alcohol and put it in a Ziploc bag and tie a string…” Keith alleges whereas choking again tears. “Would tie a string round their neck onto the Ziploc bag in order that the fumes would … in order that they’d proceed to scent the fumes to make them not really feel good, in order that she may take them to the physician.”

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Sherri’s lawyer didn’t instantly reply to PEOPLE’s request for remark. Sherri sees her kids, who at the moment are 9 and 11 years previous, as soon as a month throughout supervised visits. Keith has sole custody. She has not been charged with against the law in connection to the habits alleged by Keith within the docuseries with respect to the couple’s kids.

“So clearly at that time, I — it actually made issues loads simpler to think about her in a unique mild as if she did not exist,” Keith says within the docuseries.

Keith advised PEOPLE in an interview earlier than the discharge of Excellent Spouse that apart from court docket settings, he now not has any contact with Sherri, who was launched early from jail in Oct. 23, 2023.

Keith Papini tells his story in Excellent Spouse: The Mysterious Disappearance of Sherri Papini, a brand new three-part documentary collection that started streaming on Hulu on June 20.