FROM her very first audition, she was known as ‘crying’ Charlene.

But will Idol hopeful Charlene Torres-Tan now be known as ’sex tape’ Charlene?

The 20-year-old National University of Singapore undergraduate has been featured prominently on Singapore Idol due to her moving story – she is close to her mother, who recently suffered a stroke.

Charlene has been shown sobbing on camera several times while talking to her mother over the phone.

Someone, though, may be trying to cast doubt on her good girl reputation.

In March this year, a sex tape surfaced on the Internet, allegedly of a pair of NUS students having loud sex in one of the campus’ resident halls. Word then spread around campus that the girl involved was Charlene.

The Life Sciences student told The New Paper yesterday that the video was a ploy by a heartbroken admirer to get back at her.

‘This guy was chasing me in my first year (of university),’ she said.

Apparently, she had tactlessly expressed her lack of interest to him.

So what did the supposed unrequited lover allegedly do?

‘He got another girl to pose as me in the video,’ she said. ‘I believe that the girl imitated me and did quite a bad parody of my laughter.’

She said she has confronted the suspected culprit but he denied it.

Charlene spoke candidly about the speculation that the girl was her, saying that she’s not too concerned about it.

‘You know when it (the rumour) starts and everybody says it’s you, the story gets quite funny after a while.’

Especially when people were alleging how wild she could be in bed.

‘People come up to me and make sounds to agitate me. After a while, I didn’t care. I decided that I shouldn’t be affected.’