{"id":573092,"date":"2026-04-09T03:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/573092\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T03:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:39:08","slug":"the-housemaid-author-reveals-true-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/573092\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Housemaid&#8217; Author Reveals True Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWith <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-housemaid\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-housemaid\" data-tag=\"the-housemaid\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Housemaid<\/a> coming off a successful theatrical run and The Housemaid\u2018s Secret coming soon, the literary source material\u2019s author is stepping out of the shadows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe writer known as <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/freida-mcfadden\/\" id=\"auto-tag_freida-mcfadden\" data-tag=\"freida-mcfadden\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Freida McFadden<\/a> recently explained \u201cit\u2019s time\u201d to share her true identity, revealing her name is actually Sara Cohen, and she works as a doctor treating brain disorders when not penning The Housemaid series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019m at a point in my career when I\u2019m tired of this being a secret,\u201d she explained to USA Today. \u201cI\u2019m tired of people debating if I\u2019m a real person or if I\u2019m three men. I am a real person and I have a real identity and I don\u2019t have anything to hide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCohen stepped back from working full-time as a doctor in 2023, a year after releasing The Housemaid. And although her co-workers discovered her pseudonym, they were \u201creally nice about it\u201d and even kept her secret.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cMy whole goal was to keep it a secret until I was (ready to) step back from my doctor job, so it wouldn\u2019t be like everyone I work with suddenly knew and it compromised my ability to do my job,\u201d said Cohen. \u201cBut I have stepped away from my job. I\u2019m only working like once or twice a month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The-Housemaid.jpg\" alt=\"Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried in a scene from the movie The Housemaid\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"683\" width=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tSydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried in \u2018The Housemaid\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDaniel McFadden\/Lionsgate<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDespite sharing her true identity, the author plans to continue going by McFadden in her writing career. \u201cEven though I haven\u2019t told my real name until now, I feel like I have shared the real me all along and everything I\u2019ve told them has been the truth. Even though the name will be a surprise, nothing else will. I\u2019ve always been genuine with my readers,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBased on her 2023 novel The Handmaid\u2019s Secret, Paul Feig is returning to direct the Lionsgate sequel along with Sydney Sweeney back as Millie Calloway. Kirsten Dunst co-stars. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn The Housemaid\u2019s Secret, premiering Dec. 17, 2027, Millie returns, taking a job keeping house for a woman she\u2019s never allowed to see \u2014 only to discover the truth behind the locked door that threatens to expose secrets far darker than her own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With The Housemaid coming off a successful theatrical run and The Housemaid\u2018s Secret coming soon, the literary source&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[16692,88,190308,93324],"class_list":{"0":"post-573092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-authors","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-freida-mcfadden","11":"tag-the-housemaid"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}