I used to work in a professional role that was partly a public facing role.
This might be a bit hard to follow. If I added more detail about the type of business, it would sound more believable but I can't as it would be outing. This is 100% true however.
I fancied a client and the client fancied me back. We went on a few dates and it was lovely.
My immediate superior/company owner knew this and for some reason told this client that he had shagged me himself when he certainly did not. It was an act of pure spite.
Client/ex immediately lost interest in me and I was puzzled and upset as I didn't know why.
Two years later my superior was trying to get a separate business off the ground as the first business was failing and he had hopes that this second business could save it and make a fortune into the bargain.
I met the client/ex on the street purely by accident and we stopped and chatted. He was engaged to be married by this time.
He asked me how things were going and, as I hadn't been paid for four months and I was feeling bitter, I was careful what I said but my face must have spoken volumes.
Client/ex stopped me and spoke. He seemed to know an awful lot about the second business my employer was trying to launch and then told me what my employer had told him two years ago (that he had shagged me) and also that he was considering putting a substantial sum of money into the second business my employer was trying to launch as my employer had approached him for funding and he had agreed. He knew of two other people that were planning on financing it too.
Because my employer had lied about shagging me which I knew to be out of pure spite/jealousy/whatever, I told client/ex this was a lie and that my employer was basically a scam artist who had broken the law to get the second business as far as it was (which was the truth). I told client/ex that my employers current business was about to be foreclosed (also true), and the second business was an utter scam way of trying to save the first business.
Client/ex and the three others withdrew their offers to fund in a collective letter to my employer as a result of my conversation with client/ex, although it didn't mention me. I left the same week. The business limped on for another nine months and the bank closed the doors for the last time.
I will never know if the second business would have saved the first. I don't care.
I don't know if my ex employer knew I blabbed. I don't care. He cock blocked me from a wonderful man that someone else is married to now.
I hope this all makes sense.