Liz Hurley thanked fans for standing by her last night as claims she had an affair with Bill Clinton while he was US President were exposed as a pack of lies.
Earlier the British-born actress had been forced to issue a strenuous denial following a series of extraordinary allegations in a taped conversation by Sizemore, who claims to have dated Hurley for four years.
Taking to Twitter she said: Its been a tough couple of months in many ways- thanks to all my friends & family for your unwavering support & kindness.
Earlier shed wrote: Thank you very much for your (mostly) very nice comments on what has been a pretty gruesome day x
It came as her ex lover Sizemore issued a grovelling apology to the British actress.
Last night he appeared on a live video interview with the Huffington Post admitting it was him on the tape.
He explained the audio came from an old video tape when he was battling to overcome his drug addiction.
Sizemore said he had fabricated the story.
Sat with his British manager Charles Lago, Sizemore apologised profusely.
He said he lied about ever going to the White House.
Sizemore said: Im not denying I said those things. Its an old video and they are the rantings of a guy, and it has been chronicled, who had a very severe drug problem.
Its old tape. I wasnt willingly video taped but those were the kind of folks I was hanging around with back before I went to celebrity rehab and started to get straightened out.
I havent heard the tape but I think its my voice.
I wasnt in the best of shape.
View galleryLiz Hurley and Bill Clinton
View galleryLago said he had received a call from a woman before Christmas who was trying to extort money from the Hollywood in return from keeping the from the media.
She initially demanded 12,500 but later offered to accept 4,000.
Sizemore said he wasnt sure who was behind the tape and he had been clean for five years.
He added: It was part of a six year addiction. I was in a state of disrepair.
I really didnt have any friends, I just had other people who were abusing drugs around me.
Ive been through a lot. It feels crumby.
Those were the choices I made back then and they are coming back to haunt me.
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Tom Sizemore: Admitted allegations of affair were untrueI put those drugs in my system.
He then said he had not been in touch with the actress since the tapes emerged.
And Sizemore said sorry to Miss Hurley, saying he hadnt spoken to her directly but added: I do apologise to her for any hurt I may have caused her or the Clintons.
I have no idea if Hurley and Clinton know each other.
Ive never met former President Bill CLinton and Ive never known Bill Clinton to know Miss Hurley.
Lago said they were still deciding if to go to the police over the extortion attempt.
As the astonishing claims rocked America, Liz Hurley was yesterday forced to issue a strenuous denial that she had a year-long affair with Bill Clinton while he was President.
In a message to her 450,000 Twitter followers, the British-born actressinsisted: Ludicrously silly stories about me & Bill Clinton. Totally untrue. In the hands of my lawyers. Yawn.
She spoke out following a series of extraordinary allegations in a taped conversation by Hollywood star Tom Sizemore, who claims to have dated Hurley for four years.
He maintains he set her up withthe President following a private screening of Saving Private Ryan at the White House in 1998.
Sizemore claims Clinton called the actress in LA, saying: Elizabeth, this is your Commander-in-Chief. Im sending a plane to pick you up in three hours. Is that enough time?
Sizemore goes on to claim that just hours later Hurley arrived at the White House, where Clinton is said to have given her a personal tour before showing her Lincolns bedroom.
In the recording, posted on a US website, Blackhawk Down actorSizemore, 52, says Clinton, who was in his second term, had earlier quizzedhim about Hurley and asked for her phone number.
Sizemore claims he wanted to ask Hurleys permission first, to which Clinton allegedly replied: You dumb mother******. Im the Commander-in-Chief of the United States of America. The buck stops here. Give me the damn number.
The actor claims he obliged, but before dialling, he says the President was already covering his tracks in case wife Hillary, who was in another room, asked what they were talking about.
Sizemore adds: [Clinton] said, Im going to say I asked you about your uncle Ted who played professional baseball Thats the lie. Dont forget it. He claims that when Clinton called Liz, she at first thought it was a joke and appeared coy.
But he claims the President charmed her saying: Listen Elizabeth, this is the President. I dont have any time forthis ****. Im keeping the world from nuclear war all the time. Im sending a plane to pick you up.
Hurley, who had been dating Hugh Grant but was now in a new relationship, is said to have told him she had a boyfriend, to which Clinton allegedly joked: I dont care Ill have your boyfriend assassinated.
Hours later, Sizemore claims, Hurley was at the White House. He also alleges that the actress and the politician slept together. He says on the tape: While were at the reception, I see her, but then she disappeared through a door, trailed by a secret service agent.
Sizemore claimed: Bill turns to me and he goes, I owe you one. Sizemore is asked what happened next. He replies: What do you think? She was there for four days. The actor described 67-year-old Clinton as 6ft 4in with more charisma than 1,000 Brad Pitts.
Later, Sizemore who was recently filmed apparently smoking crystal meth said he questioned Hurley about her time with the President.
He said: I asked her, what was it like there? I said, Was Hillary a problem? And she said, No, they sleep in different bedrooms.
Bill said that, he intimated toElizabeth, that [he and Hilary] are still in love, but they stopped [sleeping together] a long time ago and they both have separate romantic lives.
Sizemore claims Clinton and Hurley kept in touch for a year, until thePresident ended contact because he was falling in love with the actress, 19 years his junior. At a certain point, he told her, I dont do love and Im beginning tothink I might love you, Sizemore added. The actor, who starred in Natural Born Killers before developing a drug problem,was recorded speaking to two other unidentified people at his hotel room in Manchester, Connecticut.
Clinton and Hurley are known to have met on numerous occasions, including at a lavish party held by rag tradebillionaire Richard Caring.
The 61-year-old hosted a spectacular charity ball at Catherine the Greats winter palace in St Petersburg in 2005. Guests were entertained by Tina Turner, Sting and Elton John.
Liz and the President, who was dressed as a Russian general, were photographed by Natalya German-Tsarkova who says she asked them to sit together for the snap.
Ms German-Tsarkova recalled: Liz, her groom and Bill were sitting at the same VIP table. As I has been assisting Bill with his costume for the ball, I brought it into his hotel room, I thought it would be no problem to ask them to pose for a picture, she said. They agreed, so I sat down and took a picture.
Clinton was on his own. I had been guiding him through St Petersburg. He really enjoyed it and he kept saying that Russian people did like him.
Ms German-Tsarkova repeatedly referred to Hurleys groom, but she was not actually married at the time. In 2002, she had began dating Arun Nayar and the couple tied the knot in 2007.
The ball raised more than 10million for the NSPCC childrens charity. Sizemore claims that Hurley, who recently split up with Australian cricketer Shane Warne, told him many intimate details of her allegedrelationship with Clinton.
He said he still remembers his time at the White House with great affection, saying: It was the biggest thrill of my life. I still pinch myself.
The earliest verifiable time that Clinton and Hurley met was in 2001, when they both attended a celebrity party in Santa Monica.
And apart from Sizemores claims there is no evidence of any improper relationship. But Clinton is no stranger to romantic intrigue and scandal.
In 1998 his administration was rocked by claims that he had an affair with 22-year-old White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
He eventually went on TV to flatly deny any wrong-doing famously declaring: I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
He was later forced to admit to a grand jury that he had, in fact, had a physical relationship with Lewinsky but managed to escape a bid to have him impeached.
Sources say the latest allegations may now hinder wife Hillarys bid for the Presidency. The 66-year-old former First Lady, now a senior Democrat in Barack Obamas team, is one of the favourites for the 2016 campaign.
One commentator said: Voters will desert her in droves if she is thought to be putting up with any philandering.
It would show poor judgement and shed be seen as a bad role model.
The couple have been married 38 years and have one daughter, Chelsea. Last night Clinton, Hillary, and Sizemore all refused to comment.
Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/tom-sizemore-apologises-liz-hurley-3116220
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