"I wanted Catherine to be diagnosed with a spinal tumor similar to mine," she wrote for Elle at the time. "Only this time, the doctors would tell her the truth. Because she, like the rest of the world, shouldn't have it any other way."
Finch was also the writer behind Catherine's cancer diagnosis in Season 15. She claimed it was based on her own life and frustration with treatment.
In 2019, Finch also told E! News that she wanted to "normalize what it is to live with cancer, to live with a chronic illness," compared to an open-and-shut arc.
Most recently, she issued an apology on Instagram, acknowledging, "Nothing erases the trauma I caused - the fear, the pain, the anger, the tears, the time. And nothing matters more to me than holding myself accountable in every way."
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