A woman who accused Bright Eyes singer Conor Oberst of raping her when she was a teenager a decade ago now says she made the story up. Joan Faircloth sent a notarized statement to Oberst's lawyer Monday recanting what she wrote online starting last December. "The statements I made and repeated online and elsewhere over the past six months accusing Conor Oberst of raping me are 100% false," the Durham, North Carolina, woman wrote. "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."
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Accuser: "I made up those lies about him to get attention"
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Conor Oberst sued Joan Faircloth for defamation after she published her story
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A judge issued a default judgment in Oberst's favor earlier this month
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Rolling Stone calls Oberst "a pain-strumming poet of emo"
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The allegations were "republished by countless media outlets around the world, thus further perpetuating the untrue depiction of Oberst as a rapist," said a defamation lawsuit filed by @placeholder against Faircloth in February.
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"To add insult to injury, certain media outlets published stories in which @placeholder's defamatory false statements were characterized as true, and in which Oberst's fans were actually encouraged to stop supporting his musical career."
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The singer-songwriter did not immediately to CNN's request for comment on @placeholder's retraction.