Friendships are beautiful and important relationships that sometimes change over time. As amazing as it is to have friends, it can also get messy and complicated when dating lives are intertwined.
In this case, two roommates and their boyfriends were driven apart by a fabricated lie that ultimately backfired. Their story on Reddit has left netizens stunned by how years of friendships built on trust, loyalty, mutual respect, and understanding suddenly disappeared.
The story was originally posted in 2018 and was recently re-shared on the social media platform. There are four people involved in this story: The narrator, who shared the story on Reddit, the narrator’s boyfriend, Sam, the roommate, Emily, who concocted the cheating plot, and Emily’s boyfriend.
Sam and the Redditor were in a long-distance relationship and had been together for a year and a half at the time. Similarly, her friend Emily and her boyfriend had been dating for 2 years.
Their friendship appeared healthy, with occasional socializing and clear boundaries in place. However, after a few months, Emily began joking about Sam having a “side chick” in his life, which the Redditor didn’t mind until things took a more aggressive turn. Soon after, the jokes turned into full-blown allegations against Sam.
“Here I can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you were planning to cheat” https://t.co/S1bJDsgVQf
— Red Introvert (@RedIntrovert) January 20, 2026
Emily strongly alleged that Sam was cheating on her friend and went the extra mile to prove Sam’s infidelity to her roommate. Emily claimed she had proof that Sam slid into another woman’s DM about nine months earlier. However, after the Redditor probed, it turned out that ‘Sam’ Emily was talking about was merely a teenager.
Even after being shut down, Emily accused Sam of lying and posing as a teen to throw his girlfriend off his scent. The Redditor was strongly convinced about Sam’s loyalty to her and continued shutting down the whole cheating plot. Some netizens speculated that perhaps Emily was jealous. But the user clarified that while there was a small possibility, Emily and Sam got along well with each other.
Another suggested that perhaps Emily wasn’t okay with how much time the user and Sam were spending together. To this, the Redditor revealed that sometimes Emily has her boyfriend over for almost the whole week and wouldn’t have an issue with it.
Emily went even further than the DM scheme. From sending SOS messages just to accuse Sam of cheating to stalking Sam’s Facebook page, Emily went far to prove that her roommate’s boyfriend wasn’t who he said he was.
Shortly after, an updated version of the story was shared by the Redditor who revealed another bombshell. This news was responsible for their broken friendship and resulted in a broken relationship. After the Redditor took a few netizens’ advice and urged her roommate to maintain boundaries, Emily defended herself. But she also agreed not to bring up Sam again.
Her: He’s out cheating on me!
What he’s really doing: pic.twitter.com/zDULikGcA3
— queen aubs🫧🩵 (@AQbrEii) November 22, 2024
The Redditor thought that whole drama was over until “it blew up.” One day, Emily’s boyfriend called the user a ‘home-wrecker’ and hurled insults at them. Apparently, he and Emily had broken up after she was caught cheating on Tinder. Emily told him that the user had convinced his now-ex-girlfriend to cheat just like Redditor did with Sam.
Emily was seeing and “doing whatever” with a few people she met on the dating app and claimed the Redditor was doing the same. Shocked at Emily’s boyfriend’s allegations, the Redditor gave proof of an evening spent celebrating Sam’s birthday with date and time stamps.
After a heated confrontation, Emily came clean and revealed she shifted the blame to her friend because she was afraid of her now-ex-boyfriend’s reaction. And then dropped another bombshell, claiming that she’d made up the cheating accusations because she wanted the two of them to be “free” of their partners.
Whether the Redditor and Sam are still together is unknown. But Emily and the user are no longer friends. After the revelation, the Redditor moved out the very next day without as much as a goodbye note, saying Emily deserved it.
