Well, I had a conversation with the friends that warned me about them, and turns out, they had an extremely explosive temper to the point of toxicity as they seemed nice at first. As of recently, them unfriending me was a relief, especially with my mental health issues. I would have had to reach out to them to hear their side of the story, but I was advised against doing so due to them trash talking the friends to avoid accountability of their shit behaviour.

I thank the two friends for warning me about the now former friend. I have zero respect for the latter.

UPDATE: happened to see the former friend at a venue that I was at tonight. Pretended everything was OK and tried to get me to hang out with them, but I politely declined. Later, they trash talked the friends and wanted to…. do something that I can’t say out loud on Reddit and told me to tell their former friends so. I swiftly walked away from ex friend, as I refuse to neither play messenger nor get involved in their drama between the three.

SECOND UPDATE: I have learned a lot more about the ex-friend regarding their shit behaviours: from theft to being jealous of one of my friends, who is a woman for reasons that I won’t get into out of integrity. Proving my point even more that I’m happy to sever ties with the former friend. If they can do that to my friends, they will do it to anyone including myself and that is something that I’d like to be spared from.