The ex-stripper-turned-convicted murderer behind the 2006 Duke lacrosse rape hoax admitted Thursday that she “made up” the allegations.
“I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn’t,” Crystal Mangum said in an interview with independent media outlet Let’s Talk With Kat from the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women.
“That was wrong, and I betrayed the trust of a lot of people who believed in me and made up a story that wasn’t true because I wanted validation from people and not from God.”
18 years after her Duke Lacrosse lies, the woman who made the sexual assault accusations admits she made it all up. pic.twitter.com/aYTHdZIWe9
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Mangum, 46, hopes people can “forgive” her, she said.
The convicted murderer had never publicly admitted to fabricating the…