A woman has confessed that she fabricated sexually explicit text messages purported to be from South Korean actor Lee Yi-kyung.

Lee was caught up in a scandal earlier this week when what looked like screenshots of a lewd text conversation between him and undisclosed women circulated online on Oct 20.

On Wednesday (Oct 22), the online user only known as A, who claims to be German, confessed that the images in her post were created using AI.

South Korean media reported A as saying she was " truly sorry for spreading malicious rumours about actor Yi-kyung".

The woman said she had started writing the posts "as a joke" and did not expect them to gain attention.

She further confessed: " It started with me simply admiring [Lee] as a fan, but over time I found myself getting emotionally i

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