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What is the craziest rumour you’ve heard about yourself.

186 replies

Kissel · 26/11/2018 23:03

I saw this on Buzzfeed and thought it was interesting. What is the craziest/funniest rumour you have heard about yourself?
I once heard I was a gogo dancer (I was in high school at the time) and my students once spread a rumour I had ran away to Prague.

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Suzyloo · 27/11/2018 09:45

That I had once been the manager of a (very famous) band. In fact I'd had a temp job with their record company, and never exaggerated it.

CantsitWontsit · 27/11/2018 10:06

There are always rumours about me! I don't know why?!??

I shagged my boss to get me job, I cheat on my husband all the time, I have to have social services involved in my kids, I am really rich (I wish), I have serious mental health issues and am unstable, I used my husband to get pregnant and plan to leave him...

To be honest, I used to laugh but I am sick of this sort of nonsense now. Your skin can only be so thick. My DH and I plan to just go. Take our DS and move away. There is a lot of poison in our professional and personal circles and we just don't want to know anymore.

TimeIhadaNameChange · 27/11/2018 10:27

First year at senior school I was taken aside by my house mistress after class. A girl in my tutor group (who I barely knew) had told her mother than my uncle managed Take That and was going to introduce her to them. TBH I doubt he'd have known who they were, and he certainly had nothing to do with them, so where she got that idea from it certainly wasn't me!

Luckily, my house mistress believed me when I said that I had nothing to do with this story. No idea where the girl got the idea from.

MrsChollySawcutt · 27/11/2018 10:31

Mine was a long time ago (24 years ago) but it still baffles me that people can be such bloody liars.

When I was 24 and approaching my first wedding anniversary my DH aged 25 became very ill and was in the cardiac care unit in hospital suffering from heart failure caused by a viral infection attacking his heart muscle. It was touch and go and the damage sustained affects him to this day.

At work the rumours started and grew. By the time I went back to work the story had developed into me having married an octogenarian pensioner for his money and far from being distraught, I was enjoying my time off gleefully waiting for him die so I could inherit!!

I only found out because I was chatting with a couple of friends, giving them an update on DH's prognosis (not good) and some brazen cow who was eavesdropping chimed in with 'well what did you expect, he is in his 80's'. And so it all came out..,.

Still can't quite believe the meanness of those people. Has really affected the way I approach working relationships.

dragongirlx · 27/11/2018 10:41

All rumours about me were started by my mother for attention. She has a mental illness and loved to be centre of attention

The ones I remember are that I was a lesbian - no just don't think you need to have a boyfriend/ partner to be happy. She thought this was the only route to happiness
That I was an anorexic - nope skinny teenager who ate everything. Sadly not something I can do anymore
That I was on drugs - nope not something I ever wanted to do

These days I am sure she tells everyone I am an evil daughter who abandoned her and its my fault my sister doesn't talk to her.
The truth is I had to go no contact because of her behaviour to protect myself and my sister followed when she put her through some truly horrendous stuff.

pumpkinpie01 · 27/11/2018 10:46

Years ago someone asked my sister how I was after recently splitting from my now ex husband, she said I was fine and much happier. Other womans response ' so did she get arrested for stabbing him then ?' (Much as I would have loved to have done that many a time I did manage to refrain !) .

redexpat · 27/11/2018 10:53

From the age of 8 there was a persistant rumour that I was a lesbian. That ended in me being gaybashed.

That I had bullied a girl 2 years younger than me at school.

That I mafe up the nickname disease for my ex's new gf. That one really hurt as I was the one defending her and telling people not to use that name. I only found out at the end of the academic year (they were together at the start of the year) and the next time I saw her I told her that I would never say such things. Years later she was working with an ex housemate of mine and told housemate that even at the time it didnt seem quite right, and that she really respected me for coming to tell her my side.

Chocolatecoffeeaddict · 27/11/2018 10:56

That I've done porn. That I don't know who my eldest child's dad is.

Angeliki159 · 27/11/2018 11:42

Apparently some old school people found me on Facebook and looking at my pics decided I had 3 children. My ex messaged me to "catch up" and congratulate me.
No kids, just fat.
Facebook privacy settings updated, pictures removed and confidence shot to pieces

Inin · 27/11/2018 11:58

When I was working at a different company there was a rumour that I was having an affair with a colleague - this was based on the premise we went to lunch together

smurfy2015 · 27/11/2018 12:01

I was at a function in the area I grew up, people kept coming up and asking me and "how are you ..now"? It wasn't until someone whispered to me in hushed tones, about being in X place detoxing, I was like WTF are you on about?

Turns out I was apparently after detoxing from alcohol and cocaine but before that, I had stolen the deeds of the family farm from my brother by making him sign it over to me by blackmail and sold it and drank the proceeds.

Facts -

I rarely drink and when I do its less than 6 units a year so pretty low, Brother doesnt drink at all, never has. I have never done illegal drugs.

Stealing the deeds of the farm and making him sign it over to me, that would be tricky as it was left equally to both of us, it was still going thru probate and nothing was sold.

Im 99% sure who was behind it but couldn't prove it.

OVienna · 27/11/2018 12:04

A school mum in told people I am a journalist for the Daily Mail. I promise I am not. I hardly knew her - to the point where someone had to explain to me who she was, as we didn't have children in the same year. I have no idea what I must have said to her, in passing, for her to reach that conclusion. She may have even thought I would find it flattering!

What I find fascinating is people who assert things about others they don't know. Why bother?! I never got to the bottom of how I had 'come up' in conversation either.

BillyAndTheSillies · 27/11/2018 12:08

That I once took a shit in a pan at a festival. No idea where it came from, this would have been about 10 years ago and only heard the rumour a few months ago. Bizarre.
I most certainly didn't!!!

BernardsarenotalwaysSaints · 27/11/2018 12:12

That I lied that I was pregnant then 'made' myself go in to labour dangerously prematurely Hmm. All because I didn't show with dc1.

HalloweeninCornwall · 27/11/2018 12:32

sizzle I’m really sorry you are living with that. It is out and out bullying.
And that your own mum started rumours about you. Flowers

COCOnutx · 27/11/2018 12:33

Not exactly a rumour, but my future MIL thought I was Catholic - and therefore so does DPs extended family - and only mentioned it in passing conversation recently! I have a large family, but not Catholic. She believed this for 4 years and I have no idea where that ever came from. She thought the big family was because we didn't believe in contraception (that's not the reason, my grandparents didn't have a TV....) Grin Wink

ichifanny · 27/11/2018 12:42

A guy from my town told me he had heard I’d killed myself turned out to be another girl with a similar name which was sad .

mummmy2017 · 27/11/2018 14:02

Stood in a bar with friends not seen for about six months as moved away...
Having a great time, till another friend was seen driving into the car park, only to be told how was our relationship going, and had he prepised yet, as he had showed them the ring....
They hide me behind the tall men, once they knew he had lied...
They the welcomed him in got him a drink and asked him about our romance, hidden for five mins from him, when he turn around to speak to the person behind him I crept out, and stood there asking him how I had no idea I had been dating him...
Would he care to admit he was lying.... Never seen a bloke go so red...
Friends made him stay and apologise.

Lunalula · 27/11/2018 14:05

The worst one was when I was in school, I think I was 15. The rumour was that I wanked off someone in year 5 (so this supposed boy would've been 10) Confused and then the rumour obviously got lost in translation somewhere along the lines and the boy was supposed to be 5years old! Shock
Silly childish things. At this point I hadn't even done anything sexual

abbsisspartacus · 27/11/2018 14:10

That I have four children all by different men I don't work and I trapped the poor man because I was baby crazy

1, I have three kids by two dad's

2, never actually wanted kids took the map and still got pregnant with number 1

the fact that her husband is dds father seemed to add weight to her argument the fact that they are druggies seemed not to be an issue I suggested she learned to count she still claims I have FOUR CHILDREN I have THREE!

abbsisspartacus · 27/11/2018 14:10

And I do work by the way

Feckitall · 27/11/2018 14:16

coco The villagers where we moved to when DC were tiny thought we were catholic for some reason...we had 2 dc close together ..

  1. we were lottery winners...moved house to new area..DC in indie schools...no obvious jobs...bursaries/carer...
  2. I'm lesbian...married for 30 yrs..to DH...just not girly..
TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 27/11/2018 14:20

When I was at primary school I was quite an advanced learner so my parents decided to send me for an enrichment lesson for an hour a week.

After I passed the 11 plus, a rumour went round my school that I 'wasn't really clever' and had just passed because of the extra tuition.

flubbadubble · 27/11/2018 14:21

That I was shagging two guys at work behind my then bfs back. He was spreading rumours to cover his own back.
When we split and he introduced his new girlfriend (the next day) our "friends" still believed him. Arseholes the whole lot.

DammitOedipus · 27/11/2018 14:22

My high school boyfriend apparently told everyone we were having sex. Regularly. We were very much not.

My parents worked at the school and caught wind of the rumour. They were horrified.

Twat.

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