Julia Wandelt – who believed she’s Madeleine McCann – apologises to missing girl’s parents in 17-page statement
THE woman who said she believed she was Madeleine McCann has apologised to the missing girl's parents in a 17-page statement.
Julia Wandelt, 21, told the world she was the three-year-old who vanished in 2007.
Julia shared a video of her , who was taken from her Praia de Luz apartment during a family holiday.
In it, Julia - who also uses the surnames Wendell and Faustyna - claimed she couldn't remember early parts of her childhood.
She even claimed she .
However, DNA test results confirmed Wandelt was from Poland.
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Julia has now issued an apology to the McCann family, reports.
Julia wrote: "I don't remember most of my memories, but I can remember some things and I never said that I am Madeleine McCann.
"I used this sentence to create a nickname for my old Instagram account, it was my mistake and I know it and I apologise for that because I should use words 'Am I Madeleine McCann?' not 'I Am'.
"So, it was my fault…. My main purpose was always to find out who I am and what exactly happened in my very hurtful past."
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It comes after a pal - speaking to - revealed Julia is "mixed up" and the Maddy claim saga is her fourth missing person story.
The friend explained: "When she was in her mid-teens she started to say that Dorota wasn't her mother and that she was really a child who had gone missing in Poland a few years earlier."
MailOnline also revealed Julia claimed to be missing German schoolgirl Inga Gehricke, five, who vanished in Stendal in 2015 - she even sent pictures to a Polish charity.
She later claimed to be missing 19-month old Acacia Bishop, who vanished in Utah, USA, in 2003.
Both claims were dismissed as her age didn't add up and it later emerged she made the Inga story up with her friend.
Julia is in fact the privately educated daughter of wealthy middle class parents from the south-west Polish city of Wroclav.
A family friend told MailOnline mum Dorota is "beside herself" following Julia's antics adding how she is desperate to get her daughter "the help she needs".
Julia has near 100 per cent Polish heritage, zero British or even Germany ancestry.
Reacting to the DNA results, Julia said: "I have to say I never said I am Madeleine. I always said that I believe I could be Madeleine."
