I had a friend try to convince my best friend that I was saying a bunch of really mean things about him when I wasn't. He was able to convince him not to talk to me until I finally just said "fuck it" and showed up at his door one day to interrogate him about why he was suddenly ignoring me after 16 years of growing up together.
When I found out, my best friend acted like this was just some minor feud and remained "neutral," which to me just meant he was taking sides with someone who was pretending to be my friend and slandering me behind my back.
It was one of the worst moments of my life. I had never felt so fucking betrayed.
I kind of just threw up my hands and said "what can you do, they're idiots" and didn't talk to them for 7 months.
They both tried to get in contact with me within a day of one another because THEY were arguing. I told them both that what they did was SERIOUSLY FUCKED UP and the guy who started it all tried to downplay it and act like he wasn't purposefully trying to make my friend hate me. It's clear as fucking daylight that he was.
The guy who started it started having paranoid delusions the other day about people following him, so I told my "best friend" that he can choose either him or me. We had a long talk about how I'm a sane and stable person with goal in life, and the other is a fucking lunatic who should really be paying child support and doing something with his life instead of making up shit about me.
He claims to agree.
Overall, I really can't fucking trust people anymore. I really just want to make enough money to buy some property out in the country and be left alone. People are awful.