Earlier this month, the 25-year-old Alabama nursing student claimed that she was abducted, blindfolded and forced to undress by two captors.
Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who went missing for two days after telling 911 that she found a stranded toddler, has admitted that she was not kidnapped and did not see a young child on the side of the highway.
In a statement given by Russell’s attorney to the Hoover Police Department, the 25-year-old apologized for her actions, adding that no one else was involved in her disappearance.
“We ask for your prayers for Carlee as she addresses her issues and attempts to move forward understanding that she made a mistake in this matter,” Hoover’s police chief, Nick Derzis, read from the statement at a press conference on Monday afternoon.
Russell was initially expected to meet with the police earlier that day. Instead, her attorney, Emory Anthony, gave the department a written update.
