George Clooney issued a statement via his rep on Friday to discredit a fake interview posted online by Hello! Magazine.

"Hello! Magazine has printed an EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with me that has been widely picked up and reprinted," the 54-year-old actor said in the statement. "Outlets like Vanity Fair, Marie Claire, The Sun, and The Evening Standard have all printed my exclusive interview and credited Hello Magazine,"

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The actor said that being misquoted in an interview is common but printing a false story altogether is "disturbing."

"The problem is that I have not given an interview to Hello Magazine and the quotes attributed to me are not accurate. In my experience, being misquoted is not unusual but to have an 'exclusive interview' completely fabricated is something new. And a very disturbing trend," he added.

The interview in question was a story about the "Tomorrowland" actor's relationship with his wife Amal Clooney and how they never stay apart for more than a week and how they make their marriage work. The magazine headlined the story as "George Clooney Explains Why Marriage to Amal Alamuddin Is Going So Well."

Initially, the publication said that the story was purchased from a credible and reputable source "on the unquestionable understanding that the interview and material were correct and accurate in all respects."

However, the magazine later took down the article and issued a formal apology to the couple, admitting that the "fabricated" story was compiled using quotes from several interviews and that most of the statements were not even made by Clooney.

"Hello Group has established that the interview it bought from the Famous agency had, in fact, been culled together from a series of interviews that took place over a period of time, and many of the quotes attributed to Mr. Clooney were never made by him," the statement read.

"Hello! Group bought the material in good faith from a trusted independent agent, who assured us it was an authentic one-to-one interview with Mr Clooney, which we now accept was not the case."

"We are shocked and disappointed to discover that the representations that were made to the Hello! Group at the time of purchase of the material were not, in fact, true," the statement continued.

"We apologize unreservedly to Mr. Clooney and his wife Amal for any distress that publication of this piece may have caused them and further apologize for conveying the impression that he had given an exclusive interview to Hello."

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