'Lost' bosses 'sorry' for timeline gaffe

Lost chiefs have apologised to Rebecca Mader after falsely claiming that a timeline error in the show was her fault.

The dispute arose from an episode of the show which showed her character Charlotte as a young girl in 1974 when she was not born until 1979.

Entertainment Weekly reports that executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse claimed in a podcast that Mader changed the age of her character from 37 to 28 in an earlier script "because she did not really want to brand herself as 37, which is what she would have had to been had we stuck to the initial script."

Mader replied on her Facebook page that the indiscrepancy was nothing to do with her. "The timeline error was their mistake and they are making it out to be my fault. Not cool."

Lindelof and Cuse have now conceded that Mader had nothing to do with the error. In a joint statement, they said: "Rebecca is absolutely right and we apologise to both her and the entire fan community for screwing up the story.

"Our first mistake was the timeline gaffe, but the much more significant one was wrapping Rebecca up in this when she had nothing to do with it. Not her fault on any level. It was our bad. One hundred percent."

Mader's character was killed off in February and met her end on the jungle floor with the revelation that she had grown up in the Dharma Initiative and met Daniel Faraday when she was a little girl.