MC Harvey on Cheryl Cole feud: 'I’ve cleared my name'

So Solid Crew rapper MC Harvey, who claimed that he and Cheryl Cole became an item following her split with Ashley Cole in a magazine interview last week, has claimed that he has showed his emails from the Girls Aloud star to a legal expert to have them verified.

The rapper tweeted yesterday: "I said I had emails, I've shown the emails. I've cleared my name."

"That's all I wanted to do.#proof."

Now Magazine's legal advisor and media lawyer Tim Parish said in a statement: "I was asked to verify the authenticity of the emails between Cheryl Cole and Michael Harvey as a proof of a relationship between the couple.

"The emails I was shown dated back to 2010 and were correspondence to and from Cheryl Cole and Michael Harvey and also between Michael Harvey and Cheryl's mother Joan Callaghan."

"I concluded that the messages were real, had not been doctored in any way and confirm he was in a romantic relationship with the sender."

Cheryl responded to Harvey's latest tweet with another swift and total denial: "I don't know when I became so naïve but even after 10 yrs in this industry I am still shocked that people will tell soul destroying lies to benefit themselves. #sadbuttrue."

In last week's spat, Cheryl vehemently denied Harvey's claims. "Was this 'relationship' in your head? Are you smoking something? I think I've met you once maybe twice at public events and With your wife !!," she tweeted.

In his original interview with Now magazine, Harvey claimed to have had a romance with Cole. "We've known each other for years. But then [after Cheryl split with Ashley] we started confiding in each other. A lot of it was like: 'We can't trust anyone out there, so we're just gonna trust each other.'"

MC Harvey also recently took part in a radio interview on Capital FM and actually backtracked his comments about a romance with Cheryl.

"I will 100% say that we had a communication relationship, but have I been out with her? No I haven't," he said when quizzed about their supposed relationship.

He added that he never said he wanted to marry her either, as the magazine had originally printed, but that they had been communicating for 'five months'.

We're all getting a bit confused! Was he with her, or wasn't he? We'll keep you posted...

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