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Hilarie Burton Morgan asked followers for help in getting a fake social media account posing as her son Gus taken down – and they delivered.
The One Tree Hill alum, 42, shared a screenshot of the account in question via her Instagram on Friday, October 25, adding a lengthy caption explaining the situation to her fans.
“Hi gang. Need a little help. I don’t have TikTok and neither does our son. But there’s this creep chick who is obsessed with him and keeps creating profiles on various platforms,” she began. “I get it. He’s awesome. But she’s a freak for stealing the identity of a 14-year-old boy. We’ve reached out to her parents. To her directly. We’ve contacted law enforcement. Because of certain actions she’s taken, she’s broken laws. So please do me a favor if you have that platform. Report her.”
In an update posted later on Friday, Burton Morgan said that the original fake account had been taken down.
“The TikTok account is taken down. But it linked to a YouTube account where she was also pretending to be Gus,” she wrote. “Her name is clearly present on that YouTube account now. I see H*****. I called your campus police. I’ve reached out to your mother’s church. I’m not f—ing around.”
Followers in the comments were vocal about their support for Burton Morgan and her son, with one writing, “Impersonating a child is a whole new level of insanity.”
Another said: “This is so freaking disturbing. I hope she gets dealt with cause this is not ok.”
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Burton Morgan shares Gus with husband Jeffrey Dean Morgan. The pair also share daughter George, 6.
Hilarie and Jeffrey, 58, met in 2009 after they were introduced by mutual friend Jensen Ackles, who is married to Hilarie’s One Tree Hill costar Danneel Ackles.
“I happened to be single and Jensen said, ‘I’ve got a girl you should meet,’” Morgan recalled to HuffPost in 2015. “So, I went to a bar and I met Hilarie at a bar with Jensen and Danneel, and the rest is history. … We ended up back at my house drinking shots of tequila.”
The couple dated for 10 years before tying the knot in October 2019 in an intimate ceremony in front of family and loved ones, including Hilarie’s OTH costars Sophia Bush, Bethany Joy Lenz and more. Jensen, 46, officiated the pair’s sweet nuptials.
“This past weekend was the best of my entire life. Jeff and I just want to put it out there that WE GOT MARRIED! For real,” the White Collar actress wrote via Instagram at the time, adding that it was “private and magical and everything I dreamed.”
She continued: “We’ve lived as husband and wife for a decade. We’ve built a family, and a farm and found our community.”