Conor Oberst Rape Accuser: 'I Made Up Lies to Get Attention'

[ForgoTheConsequence]

"I publicly retract my statements...and sincerely apologize to him...for writing such awful things," Joanie Faircloth writes in notarized statement

"The statements I made and repeated online and elsewhere over the past six months accusing Conor Oberst of raping me are 100 percent false," she wrote in a notarized statement via Buzzfeed. "I made up those lies about him to get attention while I was going through a difficult period in my life and trying to cope with my son's illness. I publicly retract my statements about Conor Oberst and sincerely apologize to him, his family and his fans for writing such awful things about him. I realize that my actions were wrong and could undermine the claims of actual sexual assault victims and for that I also apologize. I'm truly sorry for all the pain that I caused.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/conor-oberst-rape-accuser-i-made-up-lies-to-get-attention-20140714



Sad story both ways. I posted the story when Oberst was first accused, it's only fair I post a thread now that his name is cleared.

[Geoff R. Casavant]

1. I have to say, fuck her.

Bad enough she drags an innocent man's name through the mud to get attention, you can bet the next time -- hell, the next hundred times -- a woman is assaulted, her attacker's defenders and apologists will use her as a shining example of "women make that stuff up all the time."

[NaturalHigh]

2. Well, nice of her to admit it, I guess.