DNA results have confirmed that the young Polish woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann is not the missing British girl.
Julia Wendell, who also goes by the names of Julia Faustyna or Julia Wandelt, made headlines across the globe after saying she could be Madeleine- thanks to similarities in their appearance.
The schoolgirl disappeared in 2007 at the age of three while on holiday with her family in Portugal. Detectives have since spent millions trying to figure out what happened to the little girl, reports the Daily Mirror.
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Julia took a DNA test to find out more about her identity and the results have finally come back after weeks of waiting.
Her DNA test results have now confirmed that she is not the missing girl, instead showing that she is from Poland, with some Lithuanian and Romanian heritage."She is absolutely 100 percent from Poland," Dr Fia Johansson, a private investigator and medium who has been helping Julia, has said.
"She is a small percentage of Lithuanian and Russian but the test results show she is Polish," she told RadarOnline.
Dr Johansson said Julia's work has not been in vain and she claims Julia's search for answers has been helpfulto move the search for Madeleine forward.
"At least Julia got the investigators to move on the McCann case – she made things happen," she said.
Julia recently appeared on popular US chat show Dr Phil to discuss her beliefs that she could have been Madeleine.
She discussed her early memories and showed pictures of herself as a child to try and support her claims.
The young woman claimed that she doesn't want contact with her Polish parents, no matter what the DNA results would have shown.
She firmly stated: "If she is my mother, I don't want to have contact with her that's all, but I believe she isn't my mother."
Julia was also read out a statement from her family during her time on the show.
"Julia also has these photos, because she took them from the family home with the birth certificate, as well as numerous hospital discharges.
"We always tried to understand all situations that happened with Julia. Numerous therapies, medicines, psychologists and psychiatrists - Julia had it all guaranteed. She wasn't left alone," the statement read, which was released in February.
"Threats to our address from Julia, her lies and manipulations, activity on the internet. We've seen it all and we've tried to prevent it, to explain, we've asked her to stop," the statement continued.
"Julia once wanted to be a singer, a model. She always wanted to be popular. What's happening now she got one million followers.
"We're afraid Julia will carry the inevitable. The internet won't forget, and it's obvious that Julia isn't Maddie. We are devastated at this current situation."
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