Nothing "fake" about it.
Lucy was a 3.2 million years ago female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis, meaning: more ape-like than human but apparently of our line, not a chimpanzee ancestor.
Yes a chimp ancestor. Please give us one fossil piece of evidence of a transitory species.
http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/x0714_lucy_fails_test.html
https://answersingenesis.org/human-evolution/lucy/a-look-at-lucys-legacy/