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?

Was meant to be going to a family wedding with my ex husband years ago and I really couldn't be arsed to spend that much time around them all pretending they were all so perfect so I fake pretended falling down the last few stairs lol a trip to A&E and told it was sprained and off I went with crutches lol had to use them for a week around my ex husband but it was so worth it and I spent the day with my feet up recovering while he went to the wedding with our toddler son lol they had a lovely time and so did I

Then maybe you can inform any armed robbers that they are recommended to ask first where the money is, not after they've nearly killed them

You think as I was laid there half conscious with many broken bones and bleeding out that I would tell them anything.... couldn't talk anyways with the jaw fracture I had

When my ex husband told me he was leaving out of the blue he said in response to my question
”No of course there isn’t anyone else involved. You are being mad, this is a mental health problem.”
Actually he was and had been shagging my best friend for over a year.

My friends ex husband is currently pretending he is homeless and sleeping under a bridge because she chucked him out for domestic violence. He is launching a campaign on x. In truth I'm friends with his sister of Facebook and he is staying at hers. I saw him in Aldi this afternoon loading his trolley with beer. Idiot.

A friend's dad, who was a senior police officer, told me he was going to Northern Ireland to work on a team investigating the troubles and that he'd be gone over Christmas (he'd obviously already told his family.) Turned out he'd been having an affair for years and was actually spending Christmas with his other woman and her son. He missed his own grandson's first Christmas!

"I'm off to get McDonalds for the kids" and he never came back

McDonalds is 5 mins around the corner

he went roughly at 10pm and didn't come back

I'm all night contacting police and hospitals as mobile was switched off
FIL even went to McDonalds to see if he was served(rural Welsh village so staff knows him)he wasn't
his mothers going spare as he's a only child(adopted child as well)
his dads driving all night to try and find him
at the time PIL were 72

in reality by half 11 he moved in with my ex friend
she lives a 40 min drive away

she was contacted to see if she's seen or heard from ex and said no and told me she just had a row with her fiancée and has chucked him out
the whole time he was sat there

next morning PIL was contacted to say he's now moved in with her
they are engaged, trying for a baby and by 11am has moved all his money from my claim to hers(UC, carers allowance as we are 24/7 carers to disabled kids)as i get the same it didn't mess me up money wise as the claim was in my name he was just added on

he left with nothing but his bank card, mobile and the car(i don't drive)
that was taken back as it was a mobility car for the boys

i found out after she rang ex to say she's just chucked out her fiancée and she then declare her feelings for my ex and he went down to see her and never came back
both are adamant there was no affair

we were together 22 years,2 kids and trying for another one

met at 17 and 18 and each others one and only sexual and romantic relationship

i was even his first kiss

it came as such as shock to me as we were happy and with in a few months i had a emotional breakdown and still not 100% recovered

this was winter 2020,with in a few months they were married,(how in lockdown i dont know but a registry office did it) he claimed her 9 kids as his(literally lied to be put on the birth certificates years later)then had another baby and is pregnant again she has 11 kids by 10 different men

all the other kids had no dad involved(she never even told her one night stands she was pregnant) and all by different men(so had a new-born and with in a month pregnant again with another mans kids all done on purpose)

so overnight i was made
a single adult for the first time ever
a lone parent as he hasn't seen the kids since
a lone carer
a lone home educator(we home educate)

same time i was diagnosed with my breakdown a 16 and 10 y old was diagnosed with trauma and stress because of what their dad did

then in 2023 i was diagnosed with ADHD inattentive at 42

so after one snap judgment he made in winter 2020 our life was in tatters and im slowly trying to put it back together

twin that with being a 24 carer to disabled kids anyway

i will never ever forgive them

My first proper boyfriend found out his dad had a secret second family while we were together. It fucked him up. I thought those kind of lies were only in films/TV but this dad had kept it going long enough to have an 8yo and 6yo with this other woman. My boyfriend was 16.

I lie to random men who try to talk to me.

make up completely fictitious name, career and life scenarios.

so, instead of being Karen, a married IT worker with an 8 year old son. I’m Chelsea, a former wrestler who now is a sahm with 5 children.

Nope.
I instinctively said her name pretty shocked. She looked straight at me and I saw her recognition! She put her head down and walked so fast it was almost running. Went round a corner and had vanished into thin air when I got there. It did absolutely shake me to the core because it was 100% her, perfectly alive.

Told the other friends. We looked and found no death certificate. Looked into the story we'd been given as best we could, and couldn't find any trace of it, or any record of a paupers cremation where we thought it would of been.
Then someone called her phone and it was still on... A message was left on it.
Then we got one back, from the 'still grieving boyfriend' saying he'd kept the phone contract to listen to her voice on it and look at her photos...

We told the police, out of genuine confusion about if we should be concerned for her, or were just fools.

All we know is he lied, and out there is a memorial window to someone who (hopefully still) isn't actually dead yet.

"it's stuck in my Outbox and I didn't realise"
"I've just discovered I didn't press send"
"my email account is playing up again"

(my life is So Exciting)

"no it wasn't me [who told the head of year you'd been bullying someone]"
"I've got a headaaaaache" (didn't do that too often though, because I was so good at putting it on that sometimes my head would actually start hurting)

I'm sure there must be more. I can think of a lot of secretive and deceptive stuff but none of it Actual Lying, which I'm not particularly good at.

I won't cum in your mouth, got rumbled pretty quickly.

I used to work with a girl who had a multimillionaire boyfriend called Simon. They spent every weekend on his yacht and spent most of their holidays in the south of France. She aways "forgot" to show us the photos, claiming he took them all and hadn't sent them to her.

Loving the name changes, Liz & Rishi ha!

I'm not sure if the person who told me it realised it wasn't true, or if they were just repeating a myth that they'd been told (by someone who did or didn't know it was untrue...and so on, and so on...), but for years I thought that Ian Curtis commited suicide by standing, with a noose around his neck suspended from the ceiling, on a block of ice, in front of an electric fire, until of course the ice melted and he hanged himself.

I didn't realise this was untrue - bearing in mind that you couldn't just look stuff up on the internet back then - until my now DH informed me otherwise. And I didn't find out the source of the myth until I saw the cover of The Police single, "Can't Stand Losing You". Then it all made sense. Forty odd years later, and I still don't know which sick fuck started the myth. 🤷‍♀️

I ran a big online forum with three other people, two of whom I had met in person some years back. I'll call them Ann, Belinda and Catherine and they were 'ladies of a certain age'... in their late 60s/early 70's.

Ann and Belinda retired from the job they had when I met them, and took in Catherine, a friend they knew through that job, who wasn't coping so well by herself.

For several years, all four of us ran this forum, we talked daily via messenger, they helped me when my house was sold and I was living 200 miles away (went and got the keys from the EA and tidied it up before it completed), I would mostly talk to Belinda and Catherine as Ann was the most mobile, most grown up, mostly busy doing things. Others came and went, running the forum with us, it all trundled along very nicely.

Then Ann died - I couldn't attend her funeral, but I sent flowers, other people I know did attend.

Then Catherine went back to her distant family and was out of touch.

Then Belinda died (not wildly unexpected, her health wasn't fab and she was the oldest.)

And then it came out.

Catherine never existed.

They'd made her up entirely, for a purpose none of us will ever know.

The person who chatted to my DP when I was ambulanced to hospital, keeping him calm whilst he waited at home to hear what was happening, the person who I thought had shared hours of chat, who had boosted my confidence to do things I didn't think I could do, ...didn't exist!

Those of us who 'knew' Catherine have on the whole decided to forget that she wasn't real and just remember her, whoever she really was (as both A and B are dead we don't know which and suspect it was both of them) as if she had been a real person.

Which to an extent has meant grieving for a person who never existed!

Sorry, but this made me laugh

When I was a child I had a really bad accident doing something I shouldn’t have been doing. Despite having a badly broken leg and other injuries I managed to hide the evidence and crawl away from the scene before getting help. I told my mum I’d just ‘tripped over’ and she believed me, hospital drs weren’t really convinced but no one actually accused me of lying. My little brother was also there when I had the accident and never told until he accidentally let it slip about 20 years later assuming my mum knew by then, she didn’t and was still pretty annoyed about it!

What were you doing?

@WiddlinDiddlin that's nuts! How did it come to light that Catherine didn't exist?

I fell quite a long way, playing somewhere we shouldn’t have been.

A woman I worked with told me that she got pregnant by accident and then the dad left her during the pregnancy, so she had to decide whether to keep the baby or not. She kept him and had her son. Then the story changed and she said she'd been married, had a form of cancer caused by being pregnant, so she had lost her first child and then was told she couldn't have another baby, but she defied the odds and had her son and didn't get cancer. Then it changed for a third time when she said she'd never wanted children but woke up one day just wanting a baby and got pregnant straight away I don't even know which version, if any, was the truth!

Just googled to see if Maurice Gibb had married and just discovered he was married to Lulu! Who knew knew?

😂😂😂

I knew about Lulu.

Wow! Just... wow.