Original sentence: Meester has yet to comment on the reports
Edited sentence: By the way, [as for] me being 18 in those pictures, I don't believe I was.I definitely understand the nature of people better now and that the mere allegation of something like that could be headline news.It's unfortunate that it got carried as far as it did.Meester confirmed that the reports are fake in an interview with the september issue of Harpers Bazaar, Meester said: "[The tape] is not real, so it makes me sort of sad.People think it's real because somebody says it is