The woman who in 2006 falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of raping her — making national headlines that stirred tensions about race, class and the privilege of college athletes — has admitted publicly for the first time that she made up the story.

Crystal Mangum says she lied about being raped and sexually assaulted by three former Duke University lacrosse players in 2006.

Crystal Mangum, the woman who accused three Duke lacrosse players of rape, now says she lied about the encounter

"I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn't," Crystal Mangum said of Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans

Eighteen years after she lied about Duke LaCrosse players raping her, Crystal Mangum admitted she lied and asked the men to forgive her. Mangum is serving time in prison for murdering her then-boyfriend in 2013.

Mangum and another dancer had been hired to perform at party, thrown by Duke lacrosse players, on March 13, 2006. She claimed that players raped her in blockbuster allegations that touched on hot-button topics such as sex work, race and class.

Fox News correspondent Steve Harrigan reports on the latest developments in the nearly two-decades-old case on ‘Special Report.’