The actress is the mother of son Augustus “Gus”, 14, and daughter George, 6, whom she shares with husband Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

Hilarie Burton expresses concerns as online user creates fake social media accounts pretending to be her son.

On Friday October 25, the A tree hill former student, 42 years old, published on Instagram urging her followers to be wary of fake social media accounts claiming to be run by her 14-year-old son Augustus “Gus”, who she shares with her husband Jeffrey Dean Morgan58 years old. She shared a screenshot of a TikTok account named @AugustusDeanMorgan before warning her followers about the “creepy chick” behind him in the caption.

“Hey guys. I need a little help,” she began. “I don’t have TikTok and neither does our son. But there is this creepy girl who is obsessed with him and keeps creating profiles on various platforms.”

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She joked, “I get it. He’s great,” before calling her “a freak for stealing a 14-year-old boy’s identity.”

“We contacted her parents. She directly,” adds the mother of two children. “We contacted law enforcement. Due to some actions she took, she broke the law.”

She also asked her followers to report the account, writing, “So please do me a favor if you have this platform. Report it.”

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Burton and Dean Morgan are also the parents of daughter George, 6. The actress recently spoke to PEOPLE about the honest way she discusses hormonal changes with her childrenas Gus begins puberty and she embarks on her journey into perimenopause.

“I talked to my teenage son about how I’m going through hormonal changes while he’s going through hormonal changes,” Burton told PEOPLE. “Being a mother is really important. We can raise a whole new generation of kids who talk about it from the start. It’s no secret that they learn decades into their lives.”

Gus is in high school now, and Burton said the puberty conversation happened while he was “panicking about something.”

“I was like, ‘Man, this isn’t real. It’s your body having a chemical reaction that makes it look bigger than it actually is, the same way mom freaks out. sometimes because my body has a chemical reaction,’” she remembers saying. his son. “And so being able to have those conversations with your kids is really helpful.”

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