Best-selling autobiographical book depicting the story of a young Jewish girl living with the wolves while hiding from the Nazis turns out that it was actually fiction.

“Survivre avec les Loups” or “Misha, a Memoir of the Holocaust Years” in English, written by Misha Defonseca also inspired a movie with the adventures described.

In an interview given to the daily “Le Figaro” on Friday, Misha Defonseca revealed some shattering details about herself and the book. Her real name is actually Monique Dewael and isn’t and never has been a Jew. Moreover, after her parents were arrested by the Nazis during World War Two, she was actually brought up by some relatives, and in fact hadn’t been wandering across Europe, protected by wolves.

Well, that definitely spins around the experiences she said she had. However, the author explained to the “Le Figaro” that the story of the book is based on her own reality that made her alleviate the reality she had been living in back in those years.

“It's true, I have always recounted to myself a life, another life, a life that cut me off from my family, a life far from the men I hated,” she said.

The experiences similar to those depicted in Richard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” appeared hard to believe at first, but millions of readers were persuaded by the story of the 7-year old orphan who made a long journey across Europe, fed and protected by the wolves, just like Mowgli did. This is why the controversy of the fictive memoirs disappointed so much, the trust invested was actually deceived.

“And I mixed everything up. There are times when it is difficult for me to tell the difference between what was reality and what my interior universe was. I ask pardon of all those who feel betrayed.”