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What's the weirdest rumour you've heard about yourself?

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Duckafuk · 21/06/2023 07:51

I'll start, I have just heard that I'm a gold digger who seduced a well off older man ( possibly a widow) so I could live off him 😳
In reality I've been with this poor victim 34 years, have 2 adult kids and yes while we are comfortably off that's because we both worked bloody hard and now that DH is retired I still work PT.
I heard this from the friend of a woman who has set her cap at DH.

I find this both hilarious and batshit and firmly set the record straight.

Anyone else heard a crazy rumour about themselves?

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MissingMoominMamma · 21/06/2023 07:55

That DS1 was actually the child of an ex boyfriend, not my DH.

I suspect the rumour was started by my ex, and was on the basis that DS was born with a shock of dark hair. Both men had thick dark hair, but I had not had any contact with my ex for two years…

DS is the double of his dad.

MrsElijahMikaelson1 · 21/06/2023 07:57

A DD of a friend who is in the year above my DD went around telling everyone that DH was not in fact DDs father and I didn’t actually know who was! 😱

youveturnedupwelldone · 21/06/2023 07:58

I am apparently having affairs with two separate very senior men in my organisation. There is speculation ongoing about a third. Apparently I have somehow bewitched them all because they do things for me that are their job to do for me.

I'm exhausted just thinking about it - where on earth am I finding the time to juggle all these affairs?! I can barely find 5 mins to put the laundry away most days.

Whatevergetsyouthroughthenight · 21/06/2023 07:59

I was told I was buying my neighbour’s house after the ‘sold’ sign went up by two different people in my village.

Screwballs · 21/06/2023 07:59

That I am secretly renting out my home to my cousin and lying about it. Havent seen or spoke to said cousin for 12 years? Which was a brief interaction at her wedding.

whatsthesenseinsharing · 21/06/2023 08:00

Yes! Many... And it resulted in me being more less ostracised from the local community I was a regular part of. I was heavily suspected of being intimate with a popular lad whilst he was in a secure relationship. At the time I was aghast because I didn't have much confidence and was battling an eating disorder I was working hard to keep hidden.

I had this 'friend' at the time who I can only describe as a wolf in sheep's clothing. I was naive, she was cool and confident and sexy.. all that stuff. She seen the vulnerability in me and latched on. Turns out she worked hard behind the scenes to discredit my name, and she was the one who slept with this fella. Rather than put a stop to the rumour mill she endorsed my name be up for the willing participant. I was devastated to be known as someone who done this.

Small towns with small minds? You can imagine. From then I was known as something I was not, and it affected me deeply. Ended up in therapy for many years.

What I've came to realise is regardless of the opinion others hold, it's ALWAYS more about them, their hang ups and internal hatred for themselves than it is about people they point a finger too.

Hold your head proud and accept the 'gossip' as a means of people needing to deter from they're own boring mundane existence.

It seems you a living not only existing, well done. And a lovely relationship with family to be proud of... Celebrate that!!!

GonnaGetGoingReturns · 21/06/2023 08:00

Nothing as weird as others but I got a reputation amongst work colleagues (mostly men) and then through people I hung out with (friends) that I was loose.

Most people had no idea and probably still don’t that at most I kissed men but though I had a few one night stands it was nowhere near the amount people thought/said it was.

If you’re young, attractive and outgoing some people love to start rumours.

Newnamehiwhodis · 21/06/2023 08:03

someone told me once they heard I had gotten married, moved to Wales and was a series regular on a tv show.
I told them the truth of what actually happened in my life, and they argued with me that they had it on great authority…
I’m still curious who might be a greater authority on my life than me 😂

PuttingDownRoots · 21/06/2023 08:04

That I couldn't understand or speak English.

Going back... sex scandal in the tabloid press (group thing not individual). It was so inaccurate it was hilarious but did cause a few problems professionally.

Punxsutawney · 21/06/2023 08:05

That I was dead ....
I bumped into someone a couple of years ago that I hadn't seen since secondary school. I didn't recognise her initially, but she knew me. She told me that there had been a school reunion that year and because I wasn't on Facebook someone said I had died and at the event others said the same.
I wouldn't have gone to the reunion even if I had known about it, I hated school.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 21/06/2023 08:07

Not about me but DM. DF died, we moved away to London. When we went back to where we used to live one summer holiday she bumped into a neighbour and learned that she, DM, had apparently remarried and was living in Bristol. A place she'd never even visited.

How does this stuff start?

itsgettingweird · 21/06/2023 08:09

That I must be gay!

The reason?

I have been single for 10 years. I have 2 gay friends who I love dearly (separate relationships).

And the truth is actually that I'm a LP and my ds is disabled. He has a genetic fault that came form me and I have 50% chance of passing it on again.

Then developed severe gynae issues.

Also work Ft to provide for ds and I.

So actual truth is I had no time to pursue a relationship that I'd have to then add possibility of depriving them of more children into the mix.

And it's pretty ridiculous and very old school attitude that because some friends are gay that I must be too 🙄🙄

I suppose that fact I like being single and am self sufficient is just a little too much for some people to cope with 🤷‍♀️

itsgettingweird · 21/06/2023 08:09

Newnamehiwhodis · 21/06/2023 08:03

someone told me once they heard I had gotten married, moved to Wales and was a series regular on a tv show.
I told them the truth of what actually happened in my life, and they argued with me that they had it on great authority…
I’m still curious who might be a greater authority on my life than me 😂

🤣🤣🤣 brilliant!

ThisHeatIsKillingMeOff · 21/06/2023 08:12

That I was a drug dealer.

In reality huge introvert hermit that collects books and cats and two disabled kids so don't have the energy for that rubbish. Grin

JennyForeigner · 21/06/2023 08:12

That I had invented my cv because everyone knows women can't work in the Middle East.

justanothermanicmonday1 · 21/06/2023 08:13

That I was performing oral sex acts behind a pub I was rarely ever in 🤣🤣🤣 and it was NOT in my nature lol.

Hoppinggreen · 21/06/2023 08:16

Bit petty but it was at Primary school.
Our car was not actually our car but my Mum borrowed it for the school run to make us look rich (it was a Fiat Panda)

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Duckafuk · 21/06/2023 08:17

It's amazing what people invent in their own mind then present as the truth !
Luckily for me this came to light when I was out to lunch with friends and this womans friend confronted me, otherwise I would have thought I'd dreamed the whole thing.
At least I wasnt accused of being dead 🤣

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purpleglitterglue · 21/06/2023 08:17

Mine, when I was in school that I was racist towards white people (I am white myself)

HeadacheEarthquake · 21/06/2023 08:18

I once overheard some locals discussing how I was embezzling from my small business run with friends to fund my posh gym membership! Quite remarkable.

Davestwattymissus · 21/06/2023 08:24

Not a rumour exactly but years ago I went to a conference and bumped into someone I vaguely knew that I hadn't seen for a while.

"Oh, DTM how are you, how's the baby?'
Me: erm not sure what you're talking about I don't have a baby
"Yes, remember I saw you at X conference a while back, you were heavily pregnant"
Me: nope definitely not me you've got me confused with someone else
"No it was definitely you, you were just about to go on maternity leave!"
Me: that definitely wasn't me
"Yes it was, remember it was the conference at X hotel....!".....at which point someone I assumed was a colleague of his basically told him to shut up and dragged him away.

How on earth did he think I'd somehow forgotten I'd had a baby?!

WoofWoofBeachLife · 21/06/2023 08:27

These are wild 😳 🤣. Apparently my DH and me were swingers, and we met on Fabswingers, it was started by a ndn of mine and my exh. It all made sense why people were saying weird things and being strange with me. Eg, someone asked how we met and i said walking our dogs, they laughed and said is that the new secret code for dogging 🙄
I was so confused, a couple of my neighbours were also aware of the rumours.
It's funny now but when I found out I was devastated people thought this and that I was fair game for sexual innuendo and horrible unwanted attention. It became clear then why. I worked in the local shop at the time and I just thought it was the customer type, mostly lorry drivers, building site workers (sorry for labeling anyone)
I've seen the ex ndn in passing and my stomach lurches, I'd love to say something but it would bring on unwanted stress about something that's cleared up now and was 4 years ago.

Anotheruser123 · 21/06/2023 08:27

When I was a teenager- that I was anorexic. I was anaemia. Chinese whispers?

Anotheruser123 · 21/06/2023 08:27

*anaemic

LakeTiticaca · 21/06/2023 08:29

That I lived in a mansion and I was a money grabber who took extra overtime shifts. The truth was that we had scrimped and saved to be able to afford a house in a nice area for the children to grow up in. It was far from being a mansion. The extra overtime shifts were so I could actually feed and clothe my kids

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