Former stripper and current murder convict Crystal Mangum confessed to lying about being raped by Duke Lacrosse players in an interview on the independent media outlet "Let's Talk With Kat" on Thursday.

"I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn't and that was wrong, and I betrayed the trust of a lot of other people who believed in me," Mangum said. "[I] made up a story that wasn't true because I wanted validation from people and not from God."

Mangum, who is serving a prison sentence for murdering her boyfriend, falsely accused three Duke players of raping her while she was performing at a team party in March 2006. The players she accused were arrested, igniting a national controversy and conversations about racism. The allegations even resulted in the team having to cancel its season.

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The three players, David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, were all found innocent of the crimes. But Mangum was not prosecuted for perjury due to questions about her mental health. 

"She may have actually believed the many different stories that she has been telling," said former North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper in 2006. 

Mangum can not be prosecuted for perjury now because the statute of limitations on perjury charges in North Carolina only lasts around two years. 

Lead prosecutor in the case, Mike Nifong was the Durham County district attorney at the time of the trial. 

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Nifong was later disbarred in 2007 after it was revealed that he failed to turn over DNA evidence that would have been helpful to the defense's case. In a report from The Associated Press at the time, Nifong said he was unaware that crucial evidence hadn’t been handed over to the defense. 

Mangum also asserted that "something" happened that night in a book she published in 2008 titled "Last Dance for Grace: The Crystal Mangum Story."

"I will never say that nothing at all happened that night," she wrote. 

Mangum was indicted on a charge of first-degree murder and two counts of larceny in March 2011. A year before that, she was convicted on misdemeanor charges after setting a fire that nearly torched her home with her three children inside. In a videotaped police interrogation, she told officers she got into a confrontation with her boyfriend at the time, not Daye, and burned his clothes, smashed his car windshield and threatened to stab him.

According to North Carolina Department of Corrections records, she was born on July 18, 1978, to a truck driver. She grew up the youngest of three children, not far from the house where she claimed she was assaulted in 2006. 

In 1993, when she was 14 years old, Mangum claimed to have been kidnapped by three men, driven to a house in Creedmoor, N.C., 15 miles away from Durham, and raped. She said one of the men was her boyfriend at the time and was a physically and emotionally abusive man seven years older than she was. 

Creedmoor Police Chief Ted Pollard said Mangum filed a report on the incident on Aug. 18, 1996, three years after the rapes allegedly took place. The case, however, was not pursued, because the accuser backed away from the charges out of fear for her life, according to her relatives.

Vincent Clark, a friend who co-authored Mangum's self-published memoir, said he hopes people don't rush to judgment -- echoing one of the oft-cited lessons of the lacrosse case itself.

Clark said Mangum realizes she has mental health problems.

"I'm sad for her. I hope people realize how difficult it is being her," Clark said.

These false allegations leveled against the Duke lacrosse players captivated the community for several years, this case has been covered in depth by the Duke Chronicle. 

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On the heels of Marine veteran Daniel Penny's acquittal, outgoing Rep. Jamaal Bowman issued a "Dear White People" thread on X which he started by saying he did not know why he felt the need to keep talking to white people.

"Dear White People, I don’t know why I feel the need to keep talking to you. I don’t know why part of me still has hope for you and for us. Some of you are too far gone. But maybe enough of you aren’t and will join us in fighting to end white supremacy," Bowman declared in the first post of his thread.

Bowman, who decisively lost the Democratic primary in New York's 16th Congressional District earlier this year, will soon depart from Congress because his term ends in less than a month.

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"I just wanna call out the hypocrisy and evil of it all and just continue to hope. I won’t rely completely on you because I know what’s most important is to work with my community and other like minded allies in the fight for justice. But I guess I’ll just offer this," Bowman wrote. "I am 48 years old and I have seen countless incidents of brutal police violence and killings in my lifetime," he declared before going on to mention individuals including Rodney King, George Floyd, and others.

"Jordan Neely is the latest. He was sick. He was not a threat. He was subdued. Still not a threat. Daniel Penny choked him for 6 minutes. And killed him. We all watched it on camera, and he was still acquitted," the lawmaker asserted.

The congressman made the posts after Marine veteran Daniel Penny was found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Jordan Neely. 

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"I’ve left out probably another hundred instances of this trauma in my life. For comparison, I ask white people, how many times have you seen a white man killed in cold blood on camera on your newsfeed? How many times have you even heard about this?" Bowman asked.

"The answer is never. You never have. And whenever you feel discomfort from your whiteness, Black people are harmed or killed. And there is never accountability or justice. This is the evil of white supremacy. It spans across geography and political parties and sickens us all," he declared. "I wish I didn’t have to live with all of this trauma deep in my bones. I wish I could just be free to be me. I marvel at the beauty and greatness of my people in spite of white supremacy. It’s extraordinary. That is what I will continue to lean on."

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Bowman retweeted his "Dear White People" post, the first part of his multi-post thread, and commented, "Seems like I hit a nerve. White people on X going crazy on this one. Must’ve been a lot of truth in what I posted."

"Wow. This has been so triggering for so many of you. Do you realize you’re actually proving my point? If you are that triggered by this, imagine how I must feel when Black people are murdered consistently and there is no Justice. Y’all can’t handle a tweet. Fascinating," Bowman wrote in another post.