What is the worst case of attention-seeking you've ever seen?

Had a "friend" in middle school (I use the term friend pretty loosely) who would threaten all manner of things. It started out pretty normal, then she would ask me to stay up all night to talk to her. Like, most nights until 4 am+, with school starting at 7. Eventually she said she was bulimic, which my middle school mind kind of just went with... she was a bit overweight and kinda vain. Understandable. But she said that she didn't make herself throw up (wrong definition, but if someone's suffering, who was I to correct them on their english?). Later told me she was dying. That I kind of doubted from the outset because she never said what was wrong, just hinted at her tragic backstory which nobody would ever hear all of. It backfired on her, though, since middle school me treated everyone the same. Eventually, within the next year or so, she had a crush on a guy who happened to be my friend. She eventually used the "I'm dying and just want one good guy in my life" to justify making me try to set her up with him (he never did like her) and subsequently cut contact with him. Before I did, once a week or so she would fake being mad at me "because you told him bad things about me". She would go radio silent for a few days until I begged forgiveness, usually trashing my name to my friends in the meantime. In the end, I gave up trying to pacify her because she thought I spent too much time talking to one of my other guy friends. She started calling me slut/whore/bitch etc. to get me to talk to her more. (Before the chance is given: she was not/is not dying. I still see her on a regular basis, she is still healthy, my ex-guy-friend is still not into her)

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