Camila Mendes defends her Riverdale co-stars against false anonymous sexual assault allegations

Riverdale star Camila Mendes has defended her co-stars after they were falsely accused of sexual assault by anonymous sources on social media.

Mendes, who stars on the teen drama based on the Archie comics, appeared on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show on Tuesday and spoke about the recent accusations made towards her co-stars through an anonymous account. According to Lili Reinhart, an investigation found that the stories were all "fabricated" and the account has since been deleted.

“Someone saying to me that somebody would do such a thing to prove a point? It seems so trivial,” she said.

She added: “You really went to that extent? To damage not only the integrity of the #MeToo movement, but to potentially damage the careers of these people and their lives? To do that in order to make a point about how easily people believe things, it’s so backwards to me.”

This wasn't her first time speaking out - she also defended her co-stars on Monday with a message on her Instagram stories.

She posted, “It’s incredibly destructive to falsely accuse people of sexual assault. Whatever point this person was trying to make about how quickly people believe what they read, it was not worth damaging the integrity of the me too movement.”

Recently, her co-stars Lili Reinhart, Cole Sprouse and KJ Apa have all faced anonymous sexual assault allegations on social media.

One woman accused Reinhart, 23, of groping her while they took a fan photo together. Reinhart previously dated co-star Cole Sprouse and recently came out as bisexual. She tweeted her support for Sprouse in a thread on June 21, as well as the fact that the account was created to "create false stories about me and my cast."

Reinhart responded by tweeting, “It invalidates the men and women who are brave enough to come forward with the truth. This kind of lie can ruin lives and careers — and I can call it a lie because the person who made the allegations already admitted that the stories were fabricated.”

Reinhart added, “I have always taken sexual assault allegations seriously. But it was proven that this account was created specifically to create false stories about me and my cast. I can’t think of something more twisted than lying about sexual assault.”