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Lisa Riley has revealed that she's been the victim of a sick pregnancy hoax - after years of fertility struggles and IVF. The Emmerdale actress, 50, took to Instagram on Monday to share a snap of an AI-generated Facebook post which had falsely claimed that she was expecting.
The fake image showed her holding up a scan on Loose Women, before cradling a baby and posing with her partner Al Benković.
She penned in the caption of her post: 'THIS HAS TO STOP!!!!! It's absolutely horrendous!!! Saying that I'm pregnant again!!
'How is this allowed it makes me so upset... what world do we live in that these lies, and more lies are allowed to be put in the public domain. I'm sick to death of it now!!!'
She then shared a post from ITV about the situation which read: 'It has been brought to our attention that a lot of AI generated Facebook pages are posting fake news about Emmerdale and Coronation Street actors and the programmes in general.
Lisa Riley has revealed that she's been the victim of a sick pregnancy hoax - after years of fertility struggles and IVF (seen with partner Al)
The Emmerdale actress, 50, took to Instagram on Monday to share a snap of an AI-generated Facebook post which had falsely claimed that she was expecting
'Some of these posts are extremely hurtful and damaging to reputations. Please only follow genuine news outlets and feel free to report those you think are fake via the usual methods.'
It is not the first time something like this has happened to Lisa.
Back in January she addressed 'fake' claims she was pregnant.
She said: 'I am 100 per cent not pregnant, I have been inundated today with congratulations about that. Do you know what makes this even more sick?
'Is the fact that only this week on Loose Women, I was talking about the fact that me and Al, my other half, we couldn't get pregnant.'
Around that time Lisa opened up about her fertility struggles while appearing on an episode of Loose Women. The star, who is best known for playing Mandy Dingle in ITV's Emmerdale, spoke candidly about her attempts to conceive as a guest panellist alongside Kaye Adams, Janet Street Porter and Oti Mabuse.
Kaye revealed that it has been reported that abortions are at a record high in England and Wales, which led the panel to speak openly about topics surrounding it, including contraception.
This led Lisa, who has been in a relationship with her partner Al since 2014, to say: 'I've spoken a lot, about me personally, being a catholic, it drummed into us, you don't use contraception and you don't have sex before marriage.
Her pals sent her kind support in the comments
She then shared a post from ITV about the situation which read: 'It has been brought to our attention that a lot of AI generated Facebook pages are posting fake news...'
It is not the first time something like this has happened to Lisa. Back in January she also addressed 'fake' claims she was pregnant
The actress is best known for playing Mandy Dingle in ITV soap Emmerdale
'That was in my head a lot, then later in life, career, I did chose my career, apps weren't available then to look at your cycle, I waited... waited... found the right person in Al, when it came to the time of trying, I couldn't fall pregnant.
'I would have given everything in my life to have had a child.
'I look now at your happiness [Oti] and the baby, and you have got that career. It's amazing.
'I wasn't that lucky, I tried everything until the point where Al turned to me and he literally said 'You have to stop all the IVF treatment because it's diminishing you, it's taking your personality away, you're trying to hard.'
'Sometimes in life, it's not meant to be. I have to sit with you girls here today knowing that.
'However I am very lucky, because I am a family unit. My nephew and my niece, they are a big part of me.
'I say they are now my jigsaw, but what I do know, when I couldn't get pregnant, feeling so rubbish in myself, and I've said this a lot, I felt like a jigsaw with a missing piece.'
Janet asked: 'You felt diminished?'
'Yeah I did, I felt really diminished,' Lisa replied.
'There's still times at work now where I struggle when conversations are very that way.'
Janet went on to explain: 'This isn't to make you feel any better, but as someone who chose not to have children, I've got people saying to me at work, 'Did you try and it didn't work?'
'It was like having a child right through my early career is what everybody just did. It was completely expected that you do it.
'My sister did it and I didn't have a child and I chose my career, and my partners were happy to go along with that.'
Kaye asked the panel: 'Did you feel it was a choice - child or career?'
While Lisa nodded and said 'Yes' to herself, Janet said: 'Yeah it is, really. It was then. I think it was really. 'I was pushing ahead at a time where I needed to travel a lot.
'My first husband was a photographer, we travelled to America for a year, we travelled all around America, when I was a fashion editor, I was travelling a lot.
'I was utterly focused on being successful. I was utterly focused on my career.'
Kaye then asked Lisa: 'But you are happy with where you are now?'
Lisa explained: 'Yeah I am happy, but also, I have to be happy.
'I'm happy when I see all my friends getting pregnant at work at Emmerdale.
'I'm over moon for them, but there is always going to be that little, little, scuff in the back of my head going 'It didn't quite work out for me,' and I have to find peace in that.
'Thank God I've got Al, because you do that together.'