A Spanish politician announced Wednesday she’s stepping down from office in the wake of embarrassing footage leaked this week showing her apparently being caught ripping off two jars of Olay face cream seven years ago.

The footage, posted by website Okdiario, shows Cristina Cifuentes, the president of the Madrid region’s regional government, emptying her bag in the office of a Madrid supermarket, pulling the jars of cream — worth about $50 each — from her purse, and eventually paying for them, the Guardian reported.

Speaking at a hastily convened press conference Wednesday, she said the video only showed an “involuntary mistake” she made in 2011 and called the pressure to resign a very personal “lynching.”

“I have already endured about 35 days of permanent exposure and lynching morning, noon and night by land, sea and air,” she said.

“This has been a campaign of harassment and demolition and one which has, for a while now, stopped being political and become personal. Some clear red lines have been crossed,” she said.

Cifuentes has governed the Madrid region since 2015 and said she was stepping aside not to jeopardize her administration’s achievements.

“But what happened today has crossed a line … First of all, I don’t want to hurt my family, which is why I’ve taken this decision – for my family, so that they don’t have to continue suffering. I also believe it’s what’s best for Madrid, for the people of Madrid and, of course, for my party.”

Cifuentes had been under pressure to quit for over a month, over allegations that she faked her master’s degree from King Juan Carlos University in Madrid.

She gave up the degree last week, when it emerged that two signatures on the document were forged, the BBC reported.

Her departure means her party — the Conservative People’s Party led by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy — can now replace her with another candidate.