Leighton Meester is finally setting the record straight about her alleged sex tape, claiming it doesn’t exist. The Gossip Girl star, who spoke out about the rumored tape for the first time in the September issue of Harper’s Bazaar, says: “It makes me sort of sad. It's unfortunate that it got carried as far as it did.”

Meester also talked about how she was learning to deal with the pitfalls of fame, saying: "I don't want a lot of what comes along with all of this. I definitely understand the nature of people better now and that the mere allegation of something like that could be headline news. People think it's real because somebody says it is." There may be no sex tape for Leighton, but maybe the Gossip Girl writers could take some inspiration from the story- we’d love to see Blair get caught out with a scandalous home video …