The daughter of NRL legend Mark Geyer has spoken out after winning $125,000 in damages for being wrongly implicated in a sex tape scandal.
Montanna Geyer sued the administrator of the NRL Memes Facebook page, Fouada Ghosn, for defamation over two posts last year which falsely claimed she was the woman in a sex tape with Panthers star Tyrone May.
The 22-year-old was awarded the payout in Sydney District Court yesterday.
Ms Geyer told 2GB's Ray Hadley there was a point where she wanted to "throw in the towel".
"I just want people to know that from this, you just can't post false things online about people anymore.
"It can ruin peoples' lives and it could have easily ruined mine."
One of the NRL Memes' post read: "The bird in the Tyrone May video is Mark Geyer's daughter. Happy Days at Penrith."
Ms Geyer said she was at home in March last year when her best friend sent her the post.
"It was complete and utter mayhem….I just remember being up in my room and I screamed because I didn't know what was happening.
"And coming down to my family and having to show them what had been said about me.
"I just felt sick, not just for myself but for everyone else around me.
"Immediately after it was posted everyone assumed it was me."
Ms Geyer said Ghosn refused her family's requests for an apology and tried to suggest it was not his fault.
"It was just a complete and utter lie.
"We had asked him to apologise several times. And no apology was given. There was no effort to help make it right."
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