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Montreal actress Adina Katz inadvertently became the target of a viral political onslaught this week after being wrongly identified as a woman who appears in one of the campaign videos for Conservative leader Andrew Scheer.

“I felt like I was in a bad dream; I had a breakdown, I started crying and I had major chest pains,” said Katz, who says she has endured online harassment, bullying and even body shaming as a result of the misidentification.

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It all began with a short video posted to Scheer’s social media on Aug. 2. In the clip, a woman approaches the politician on the street, identifying herself as a cancer survivor and Conservative supporter named Adina. She asks Scheer what he will do to improve health care and mentions that she will be voting for his party come October.