Massive twist as Julia Wandelt – who believes she’s Madeleine McCann – claimed she was a missing child three TIMES
THE woman who claimed to be Madeleine McCann is a serial fantasist who has posed as a missing child THREE times before, her pals say.
Julia Wandelt, 21, told the world she was the three-year-old who vanished in 2007.
But when Canadian DNA tests proved she was not Maddie, she scurried off back to her native Poland where she is now in hiding.
Julia shocked the world when a video of her claiming to be the youngster – taken from her Praia de Luz apartment during a family holiday – went viral.
In it, Julia – who also uses the surnames Wendell and Faustyna – claimed she couldn’t remember early parts of her childhood.
She even claimed she had no birth certificate.
Julia later wrote: “My earliest memory is very strong and it’s about holidays in a hot place where there is a beach and white or very light coloured buildings with apartments.
“I don’t see my family in this memory.”
But a childhood pal speaking to MailOnline has revealed super duper Julia is “mixed up” and the Maddy claim saga is her fourth missing person story.
The friend explained: “When she was in her mid-teens she started to say that Dorota wasn’t her mother and that she was really a child who had gone missing in Poland a few years earlier.”
MailOnline also revealed Julia claimed to be missing German schoolgirl Inga Gehricke, five, who vanished in Stendal in 2015 – she even sent pictures to a Polish charity.
She later claimed to be missing 19-month old Acacia Bishop, who vanished in Utah, USA, in 2003.
Both claims were dismissed as her age didn’t add up and it later emerged she made the Inga story up with her friend.
Julia is in fact the privately educated daughter of wealthy middle class parents from the south-west Polish city of Wroclav.
A family friend told MailOnline mum Dorota is “beside herself” following Julia’s antics adding how she is desperate to get her daughter “the help she needs”.
Julia has near 100 per cent Polish heritage, zero British or even Germany ancestry.
Reacting to the DNA results, Julia said: “I have to say I never said I am Madeleine. I always said that I believe I could be Madeleine.”
