The girl who claimed to be Madeleine McCann has released a statement in which she claimed she had a "very important update" to share with her followers.
Julia Wendell, who is also referred to as Julia Faustyna, gained fame after she claimed she could be the three-year-old British girl who disappeared while on vacation with her family in Portugal back in 2007.
Maddie's case was never closed and still remains the subject of intense interest among both the public and the press.
Wendell, originally from Poland, spent the past few months building a case about how she could be the missing girl - though those hopes were dashed after a DNA test revealed that she is "100% Polish."
As per a lengthy statement posted to Facebook, the 21-year-old confirmed the news and also emphasized that she has a "very important update" in store for everyone.
"First, I would like you to know that I’m not a liar, I’m not delusional, I’m not attention seeker, I’m not doing it for fame and I’m not a pedophile," she started. "I also would like you to know that I accept your opinions. I mean, you all have your own rights to say what are your thoughts about this situation and you all can share these thoughts with others but what makes me really annoyed and sad, it’s your confidence about that what you are saying is fact, mostly it’s not."
Wendell then went on to explain how she believed that her approach might have deterred some people from believing her but clarified that the details she revealed about her childhood were true, including the fact that she was sexually abused by a "German man."
She also went on to apologize for her choice of Instagram handle, @iammadeleinemccann, which misled a lot of followers, but also revealed that her intentions never changed - she just wanted to find out who she really was.
"I don’t remember most of my memories but I can remember some things and I never said that I am Madeleine McCann," she continued. "I used this sentence to create a [name] for my old instagram account, it was my mistake and I know it and I apologize for that because I should use [the] words ‘Am I Madeleine McCann’, not ‘I am’.
"So it was my fault and it wasn’t my intention to bring sadness or another negative emotions to anyone, especially to McCann family. My main purpose was always to find out who I am and what exactly happened in my very hurtful past," she said.
However, despite the results confirming that Wendell is not ethnically British, it appears as though she still believes that there could be a chance that there was a mistake in the ancestry process.
"I believe that my birth certificate could be forged. I still believe that it’s a possibility that I could be Madeleine and don’t be bad I will tell you why," she wrote in the post. When I was doing [the] DNA test in USA it was DNA kit from company called 'Ancestry.' Fia [her lawyer] didn’t want to give me results over one week me asking for it.
"When she finally gave me access to my results I was so shocked because it was on another company’s website. Tell me please, how [is it] possible that my results came to [the] website of competitive company?"
Despite the questions the 21-year-old posed, she concluded the statement by stating that she was seeking help, firstly to sue Fia "for all bad things that she did" and secondly to get some therapy for her trauma.
She teased that she had some more information to share, writing: "One more thing, tomorrow I am going to make very important update."
We'll just have to wait and see what she has to say.
