American Idol contestant exposed for fabricating horror Iraq war injuries

We all remember Tim Poe America's Got Talent wounded veteran faker and it looks like American Idol has one too now.

American Idol contestant exposed for fabricating horror Iraq war injuries
The Sun
By JO SAYER
Published: 6 hrs ago

A SHAMELESS American Idol contestant has been forced to make a grovelling apology after falsely claiming he was injured in a bomb blast while serving in Iraq.

At his audition Matt Farmer described how he was seriously injured by an explosion while on patrol in the city of Ramadi.

He told how after waking up in hospital he was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury. He went on to say how he was told the medication he was prescribed could make him sterile.

As he held his daughter in his arms, the tearful 26-year-old told host Ryan Seacrest her birth was a miracle.

But his lies were soon exposed by his former colleagues in the military.

On a website used by servicemen and women they told how he had never even been deployed to Iraq. One commentator described him as a “pathological liar that has used the blood, sweat and tears of real, hard working, tough, brave and honorable Infantry soldiers to paint himself as somone he most certainly is not."

Farmer initially tried to justify himself by claiming Idol producers had taken his words out of context.
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