The League actor and standup comedian Steve Rannazzisi apologized on Tuesday for fabricating details of being inside the World Trade Center during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

Rannazzisi had previously described being on the 54th floor of the south tower as an employee of Merrill Lynch when the planes struck the north tower. He gave accounts of this during an appearance on Marc Maron’s podcast in 2009 as well as during other interviews.

Merrill Lynch did not have offices in the World Trade Center in 2001, and there is no record of Rannazzisi’s employment there.

When confronted with these details, Rannazzisi came clean via a statement from his publicist, Matthew Labov.

“I was not at the Trade Center on that day. I don’t know why I said this. This was inexcusable. I am truly, truly sorry.”

He went on: “For many years, more than anything, I have wished that, with silence, I could somehow erase a story told by an immature young man. It only made me more ashamed. How could I tell my children to be honest when I hadn’t come clean about this?”

It’s not the only discrepancy in Rannazzisi’s life story. On his website, it said that he was a graduate of the State University of New York at Purchase, a college that the The New York Times notes has a strong performance arts program. He actually graduated from SUNY Oneonta, where he majored in communications. His publicist said the mistake was an oversight.