Actress and businesswoman Jessica Alba was kidnapped when she was just 15 years old while working on the set of the TV show Flipper three decades ago

Alba played Maya, a girl who has a special connection with the ocean and a dolphin named Flipper. The series was set in the Florida Keys but was largely filmed in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. However, during filming in Australia, 15-year-old Alba was mysteriously disappeared without a trace. The case was never solved.

The 1996 kidnapping case involving Jessica Alba has gone viral this week, and there’s one detail that makes the terrifying ordeal even worse.

Well, as it turns out Jessica Alba was never kidnapped and the entire story is completely fake. Yes, I’m also in shock. During a 2005 interview with Complex Magazine, Jessica was asked about the alleged kidnapping claims and she firmly set the record straight on the truth of what happened.

In the spring of 1996, while filming Flipper in Australia, Jessica Alba mysteriously disappeared without a trace. For 14 agonizing hours, her family, friends, and the production crew frantically searched for answers. Alba was eventually found bound and gagged in the trunk of a car, miles away from the set.

Lots of Jessica Alba's fans have been shocked by the resurfacing of her kidnapping story, which happened on set of a popular film.

In 1996, 15-year-old Jessica Alba was kidnapped on the set of Flipper, found 14 hours later bound and gagged in a car trunk—her case remains unsolved to this day. pic.twitter.com/y2Bw7EplO7