After Sherri Papini admitted in court docket that she made up a harrowing story about her personal kidnapping, her husband has now filed for divorce.

Keith Papini on Wednesday filed for divorce in California state court docket after her spouse's fabricated story of being violently kidnapped unraveled beneath the glare of the nationwide highlight. The divorce filings are the newest for Sherri Papini who may face jail time and steep fines when she's sentenced in July.

Simply two days after his spouse pleaded responsible to mendacity about her kidnapping, Keith Papini filed for "dissolution with minor youngsters" in Shasta County Superior Court docket in northern California, reported The Sacramento Bee. The listening to is ready for Might 9.

For 3 weeks in November 2016, Sherri Papini, 39, went lacking, sparking a nationwide seek for the mom of two. Twenty-two days later, Papini was discovered raveled and bruised on the aspect of a street with a series round her waist that was sure to 1 arm, together with different bindings on her different wrist and ankles.

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Sherri Papini of Redding, California, leaves the federal courthouse after her arraignment in Sacramento. Her husband filed for divorce after her story of being kidnapped unraveled beneath the nationwide highlight. Wealthy Pedroncelli/Related Press

Papini claimed that two Hispanic ladies kidnaped her at gunpoint whereas out jogging in her hometown of Redding. She mentioned the ladies beat her earlier than one in every of them launched her almost 150 miles away in Yolo County, California.

"I considered her being there screaming my title, and I wasn't there and that actually acquired to me," mentioned Keith Papini, preventing again tears in a 2016 interview with ABC's 20/20.

Within the interview, Keith Papini described being "head over heels" in love along with his spouse. He additionally recalled the tough job of breaking the information to their 4-year-old and promising his mom could be discovered.

"I do know she was taken," he mentioned within the interview.

However issues with Sherri Papini's story started to emerge. Hospital employees additionally could not discover a lower she claimed to have obtained whereas preventing her captors. Exams discovered each female and male DNA on Papini's clothes and pores and skin, undermining her story. The DNA pattern didn't match her husband.

It later emerged that Papini was staying with an unnamed ex-boyfriend and had deliberate to run away a 12 months earlier than her disappearance, in keeping with paperwork filed by federal prosecutors.

On Monday, Sherri Papini confessed in court docket to faking her kidnapping. She already has to repay greater than $30,000 price of psychiatric remedies coated by the state sufferer fund on prime of $128,000 in incapacity funds.

"I'll work the remainder of my life to make amends for what I've carried out," Papini mentioned in an announcement launched early by her legal professional William Portanova.

She is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11 and will resist 25 years in jail or further fines as excessive as $250,000.

Portanova declined to remark to Newsweek.