Superstar bogan Clare Werbeloff has hit back at claims she is a racist, saying "wog" is no longer an offensive word in Australia.
Speaking for the first since she became an internet phenomenon, Ms Werbeloff expressed disbelief at the attention she has received after her made-up account of a Kings Cross shooting.
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"I didn't think it would blow out of proportion like this and I wasn't thinking at the time … I didn't think anything of it," the 19-year-old waitress told A Current Affair last night.
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"I don't want to be known as a racist — I love everyone.
"A few generations ago, wog might have been offensive … but this generation these days, we're skips, bogans, wogs, anything.
"I don't think people should take offence to anything like that … if you're proud of where you've come from, then it shouldn’t matter what people call you."
Ms Werbeloff said the past week had been the biggest of her life.
"On Sunday morning I did the interview and on Sunday night it was on the internet … the next day it was on YouTube with a thousand views," she said.
"The next day I had a fan page on Facebook [and] people have been setting up Twitter accounts.
"It's insane."
Ms Werbeloff's account of a shooting at a Kings Cross nightclub was exposed as a fake over the weekend.
"Aussies love playing around, they like jokes ... I just thought Australia would get it," she said.
Police investigating shooting of 27-year-old Justin Kallu confirmed Clare had lied.
"She has taken the media for a ride," an officer involved in the investigation told ninemsn, adding that Ms Werbeloff had never actually witnessed the shooting.
"She lied to the media but at no point did she tell police she had seen the shooting," he said.
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