The woman at the centre of the alleged HMP Wandsworth sex tape scandal has now broken her silence weeks after the footage went viral.
A video of a female prison officer allegedly having intercourse with an inmate in a cell at the Category B men's prison in South West London spread like wildfire on social media after it was leaked online.
The clip appeared to show the officer performing a sexual act on a male inmate while another lag filmed the encounter.
The pair then appeared to have sex, while the cameraman could be heard in the background saying, 'Guys we've made history, this is what I'm telling you,' and referring to his cell mate as a 'gangster'.
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The Metropolitan Police launched an investigation into the footage which was allegedly filmed inside HMP Wandsworth, before Linda De Sousa Abreu was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office the same day on 28 June.
De Sousa Abreu was granted conditional bail and will appear at a plea hearing at Isleworth Crown Court on 29 July, as per Sky News.
But due to her alleged actions remaining a constant topic of discussion online, she has now spoken out about the scandal in a video shared to her Instagram account - which she made clear is the 'only social media platform' she currently has.
De Sousa Abreu said: "I hope you can appreciate this is going to be a very awkward and uncomfortable conversation for me to have...I just thought I really needed to come on here and clarify a lot of things.
"First thing being, there has been a lot, a tremendous amount of fake profiles of me that have been monetising off my misfortune, this scandal that the entire world has somehow managed to be involved in.
"I have not monetised one f***ing bit. At all. This is my only social media platform and I only just activated it again."
She also claimed that she had been informed fake profiles of her on OnlyFans 'asking for money', while GoFundMe's have also apparently been set up in her name.
"Please don't fall for it," De Sousa Abreu said. "And I do apologise if you have fallen for it, I honestly from the bottom of my heart apologise.
"But I really want to clarify that this is my only social media account and I just came back on.
"On the topic of impersonation, I think it's very important for me to address this very distasteful subject of OnlyFans creators pretending to be me and recreating the scenario of said scandal which I am involved in.
"Very, very distasteful for you to monetise or advertise yourselves as me for OF content. It does interfere with my trial, but furthermore, it is incredibly, incredibly distasteful."
The 30-year-old then urged adult content creators to 'refrain from tagging HMP Wandsworth in your stupid videos'.
"There are other jails in the world," she continued. "You don't have to pretend to be me. It's very distasteful.
"And lastly, I wanted to tell you all that you do not know my side of the story. The media has a great way of getting a narrative and twisting it for it's own benefit. The media love any story to be salacious and sensational - they sensationalise everything. You don't know my side of the story and we'll leave it as that for now."
Despite seemingly signing off the video, De Sousa Abreu then went on to call out people in her life, adding: "Whilst I'm here - you don't know who has you, who your real friends are until s**t hits the fan.
"Honest to god, family, friends. You need to pick them very carefully. Very, very carefully. Obviously everyone knows my mobile phone number was leaked, there has been people going behind my back, the media have literally been following me everywhere - I can't even go into Greggs or Primark without getting papped.
"It is very annoying. A lot of the time it's people who you thought had your back. And they just don't. That's been really heartbreaking, on top of all of this.
"So that's just advice for everybody to pick very carefully who you have around you."
Topics: Crime, News, Social Media, UK News, Prison
Olivia Burke