WASHINGTON _ Beverly Young Nelson, one of the women who has levied sexual misconduct allegations against Roy Moore, said she added the date and location below a now-infamous yearbook inscription she has attributed to the Alabama Senate candidate.
Nelson and her attorney, Gloria Allred, have offered the yearbook note as proof Moore sought an inappropriate relationship with her when Nelson was 16 and Moore was in his mid-30s.
Nelson told ABC News on Friday that she later added the date _ "12-22-77" _ and location _ "Olde Hickory House" _ beneath Moore's message and signature. But she insisted that Moore, who later became the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, penned the note and his name.
The note and Moore's name are written in a slanted cursive. The date and location are not.
"Beverly, he did sign your yearbook?" ABC's Tom Llamas asked during the interview aired Friday.
"He did sign it," she replied.
"And you made some notes underneath?" Llamas asked.
"Yes," she answered.
Nelson did not indicate when she annotated the yearbook inscription.
At the Nov. 13 news conference in New York where she initially aired her allegations, Nelson did not mention that she added anything to the note she said was Moore's.
Right-wing defenders of Moore have questioned the authenticity of the note, and Nelson's statements Friday appear to have given them ammunition.
Moore pounced on the comments to discredit Nelson's accusations against him, retweeting a Fox News headline saying Nelson "admits she forged part of the yearbook note."
"Let's count how many national outlets will ignore the fact that she admits to lying," Moore wrote above the tweet.
Fox later changed the headline on its website to "Roy Moore accuser admits she wrote part of yearbook inscription attributed to Alabama Senate candidate."
The recent wrinkle to Nelson's account came four days before Moore squares off against Democrat Doug Jones in the Dec. 12 special election for Attorney General Jeff Sessions' former seat currently filled by Sen. Luther Strange.
Allred said in a statement she will hold a news conference to provide expert evidence that Moore signed the yearbook.
