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Lili Reinhart

Lili Reinhart has been left bemused by an imposter pretending to be her, who has conducted "interviews" with various news outlets.

A chat purporting to be with the Riverdale star was published online by Seventeen Magazine, who then shared that they'd been duped by somebody impersonating the actress.

"Today, we briefly published a story with information we were lead to believe was from Lili Reinhart. However, it was brought to our attention that the person who contacted us was, in fact, an impersonator and had no connection to the Riverdale star," the magazine wrote on their Twitter account. "We want to sincerely apologize to Lili and her fans for this unfortunate situation.

"We reacted swiftly by removing the story from our site and regret the erroneous reporting. We take full responsibility and will be internally reviewing our editorial and fact-checking processes to ensure something like this does not happen again."

The Hustlers star then took to her Instagram Stories to share the statement, and add her own comment, as she wrote: "For some bizarre reason, someone impersonated me in an interview with @seventeen. Nothing inappropriate was said, but those were not my words and I wanted to address it."

Following Lili's post, The Daily Express' TV reporter Lucas Hill-Paul tweeted that he was "embarrassed and quite disturbed" to have also been fooled by the imposter.

"It's clearly been a strange day for Riverdale fans and I can only hope my apology eventually reaches Lili herself," he tweeted. "I'm very sorry someone thought to do this to her, but it's clear they're in a tiny minority of those who just want to watch a fun show."