ABCUPDATE: The Sun came back firing, telling E! News that it got the story from a "reputable UK news agency" that had a reporter actually watch Upton inject her daughter with Botox. The paper "strongly denies any suggestion it solicited or knowingly published a false story" and is currently consulting with lawyers on possible legal action.
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Botox Mom is full of bologna.
Sheena Upton, who spread a story in the U.K.'s Sun tabloid that she injects her 8-year-old daughter to keep her fresh-faced for beauty pageants and then followed that up with a hyped appearances on Good Morning America and Inside Edition, is now saying she made the whole thing up.
Psych!
Now faced with losing her daughter due to her made-up-for-TV story, Upton (originally ID'd as Kerry Campbell in the Sun) has given an affidavit to TMZ stating: "I have never given my daughter Botox, nor allowed her to get any type of waxing, nor is she a beauty pageant contestant."
Campbell says was paid $200 by the Sun to front the story titled "I Give My 8-year-old Daughter Botox."
"I was provided with the story, instructions and a script to follow for a recorded interview," she says in her TMZ statement, which she signed "under penalty of perjury."
She claims the story created such a ruckus that GMA and Inside Edition paid "large sums" for her to come on TV and recount her tale.
But after appearing on television, child services took the child from Upton's care. She is now allowed supervised contact with the girl and is now trying to take back her story to get back her daughter.
Per TMZ, Upton took the girl to her daughter to UCLA Medical center, where, she says, she received a full medical exam that determined the girl never had Botox injections.
Now, faced with having perpetrated a hoax, ABC and Inside Edition are circling the wagons.
"On May 13, Inside Edition aired an interview in which we repeatedly challenged a mother on the safety and the sanity of her claims that she injected her 8-year-old daughter with Botox," a rep for the syndicated show says. "Inside Edition is now investigating the published report that she fabricated the story."
ABC also vowed action.
"We have just seen the sworn declaration on TMZ written by Sheen Upton, aka Kerry Campbell, and are vigorously investigating her most recent statement and rapidly shifting story," an ABC News rep tod E! News.
ABC would not comment on the part of the TMZ report that claimed GMA paid $10,000 to Upton (It's not uncommon for such shows to circumvent the unseemly process of paying for interviews to instead pay hefty sums to "license" photos and other content from the interview subjects.)
But the rep insisted that it was going to get to the bottom of the story.
"Good Morning America has repeatedly questioned Upton, members of her family and other sources who again and again stood by the Botox story," the spokesman said. "[GMA] is solely interested in getting to the truth and will share with our audience any new information that we find."
Great. We're waiting.