What is the biggest lie you've ever told or been told?

[PippyLongTits]

And did you/the liar admit it when caught out or did you/they double down? Or have you got away with it?

Biggest lie I've been told - by my sons DF "I've had a vasectomy", even had the cheek to double down when DS was conceived/born/all his life.

Biggest lie I've told - "I don't know where the money is", said during an armed robbery where I worked, they'd already hurt me which left me permenantly disabled and asked questions later, no way was I telling them where it was kept, gun pointed at me or not.

My mum's first husband had a whole other secret family while they were married, including two kids.

Spendysis - I think we may share the same sister! 🙄

His name wasn’t Andrew, was it?

If you get top grades in all your exams you’re set for a glittering career.

Aim high and follow your dreams, and everything will just fall into place.

Everyone has a special talent.

One of my uni housemates was a compulsive liar, but never about anything important. One day he said he had a date that night with two girls who wanted to be in a 3-way relationship with him. We waited for him to leave the house and then the rest of us piled into my car (with the headlights off!) and crawled through campus at snail’s pace to follow him. We watched him sit alone on a bench for almost an hour. He came back later that night and told us all about ‘Charlotte and Scarlett’ and the amazing night they’d had. Didn’t even have the imagination to come up with non-rhyming names 💀

We never pulled him up on that particular lie but everything he ever said was taken with a huge pinch of salt! We did enjoy asking how Charlotte and Scarlett were, though and always asked when we would meet them, but they were ‘very shy’ he was a lovely lad and we liked him, just never understood why he bloody lied all the time!

When I was age 10, over 30 years ago - a girl in the year above told us she was pregnant with Gary Barlows younger brothers baby - his brother was also called Gary Barlow.

'I love you' and 'I was just curious' before finding out my 'D' H was bisexual and shagging around behind my back.

He denied all, even thought I had the emails/saw the dating profiles/etc.

This is outing but whatever…

Ex told me he was moving a few miles away to live nearer his daughter. Obviously no problem with that, and we agreed we’d still see each other every week.

Three days later I got a text saying “I’ve actually moved to Asia and I never want to see you again”

Just giggled out loud in a quiet waiting room 😂

My mum pretended to have a brain tumor which she then said progressed to bone cancer for around 14months, in which time she manipulated me, humiliated me guilted me, had me utterly hyper vigilant phoning me telling me her treatment was failing and she was dying but gaslit me telling me I was awful, it wasn't her that was weird nor letting anyone come to her appointments or being vague/ inconsistent with details, she immediately alienated me and lied to me and about me if I ever tried to get a handle on what was going on, just got rid of me then would start calling again saying how ill she was when she felt like entertainment. She nearly broke me, and in desperation at one point I phoned the hospital and begged for help, I believed by this point she was refusing treatment and not of sound mind. They told me that the only thing on her file was a fairly common and treatable eye condition. No tumors, no biopsies,no cancer, no mobility issues (she had bought herself a wheelchair). It was the worst and best moment at the same time, the reality was devastating but the validation that something was completely off with it and I wasn't an awful person and acting bizarrely was a massive relief. The lies upon lies just to hurt me and guilt me were incredible. From my own mum

When I was about 9 I told someone I had a horse. I have no idea why. I managed to keep it going for a few years as too embarrassed to admit I made it up. In the end I said it died.

Omg….sooo many questions here….this is shocking! Did you ever find out what lay behind the disappearing act? I just can’t imagine the worry, grief and devastation you went through, you must have thought you’d seen a ghost. Unbelievable.

That's crazy 🤪!

I knew a couple of people like this, one at school who was being hunted by the Chinese mafia. The other was someone I worked with - she swore to be in relationships with people who didn't seem to know she existed. When she moved away she told me she was engaged, but before we could ever meet the fiance, she called me for an hour telling me the convoluted and bizarre story of their break up....which was exactly the same story as I'd read in Take A Break in the hairdressers the week before! Felt a right numpty trying to make sympathetic noises, cut her off after that!

I know of a similar situation...I am so sorry for what you went through.

I used to work with a young lady who claims she got pregnant with twin girls (she would have been about 16)

She lost them to stillbirth apparently

She fell pregnant again with twin girls about a month later-stillborn again (aged 17)

She fell pregnant again,twin girls,and again lost the babies-she was sending myself and my friend pictures of the dead babies (aged 19)

My friend got a bit suspicious and google reversed the images

And there where the same pictures as what she'd sent to us

She left work just after claiming she lost the 3rd set and I didn't see her for a while

Was at work one day(same job,different building),when she walked in with her boyfriend and mum

She did everything she could to stop me talking to her mum (not so much the boyfriend) and I can only guess its in case I said something

She then genuinely fell pregnant and the disappointment was real when she went on to have a boy (the fb posts made it clear she wanted a girl)

God only knows what all that was about-sympathy?really wanted girls?attention?

I do not know but it was sick to lie about losing 6 babies

My friend's husband disappeared one night (no phone with him) , came back at lunchtime the next day and said his friend had been taken seriously ill in the pub. He had taken him to hospital, it was salmonella and he was now so ill he had been put on life support. He couldn't leave his side because his wife was travelling back from Cornwall and he couldn't leave him until she got there.
He carried this on for several days- visiting the hospital, reporting ups and downs in his condition, writing a get well card, calling for updates.

Whole thing was a lie- he was having an affair.

The biggest lie I've been told is that a "labour government will make England great again." by an easily lead clown that lives on our close

My ex husband Just after we got married hid brother gave him money for our wedding I knew this yet next day in a taxi said to me he came into money like he won it or something yet his bloody brother gave it to him he was a dick though

Just to balance the last one: "We'll be better off after Brexit..."
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I think you're recommended to just tell them where the money is.

I'm so sorry that you were hurt in that attack. 💐

That giving birth is the most natural thing of the world.

Human squeezing out of vagina hole is not natural!

"It's just puppy fat"

Dp once claimed his dad was in the SAS(he was about 9/10)

He even got in a fight over it

Now,if you ever met his dad,you'd know he was the last person they would have taken in

Fat,unfit,a heavy smoker,even heavier drinker and a real del boy character

I miss that man so bloody much,but SAS material he was not

Just about everything that spilled out of my exh's gob was a lie. One that stands out is that he had served in the army for a couple of years in the 80s (which was true) and the IRA had tracked him down and were watching our house. He pointed out of the window to a car parked just down the road. I had a young baby at the time and I won't lie, I was terrified. He went to bed (he'd been to the pub and was pissed) I sat up for hours and kept looking at the car outside. It drove away eventually so I went to bed. Didn't sleep much. I asked him about it in the morning and he denied he had said it!!
I told a really silly fib once. I had a childhood friend, when I was about 10. She had a sister who was quite a lot older than her. My mum knew the family as well and was saying she had seen the older sister in passing. I said oh yes she's getting married soon. Next time my mum saw the sister she congratulated her on her forthcoming nuptials. Sister stared open mouthed and told my mum, no I'm not getting married, I don't even have a boyfriend!! I got an almighty bollocking off my mum, she was so embarrassed 😳
I have no idea to this day, 50 years on, why I said it!! 😂