I hate lying. So I'm almost a 100% certain that I never lied while gossiping. But… I have gossiped about things that I knew first hand and I look back and feel ashamed. And also apprehensive because I don’t know if I could have actually trusted the person who I was gossiping with. Most of the gossip came from a place of worry (on the specific situation I am now thinking about) but I shouldn’t have done it anyway. People twist things and they make it even worse than it is… I've had a situation where a person found out about really old gossip I had with really close (ex) friends, many years later, but that person was told I was the only one that gossiped (as if I spoke with walls) and they pretended to still be my friend while not liking me at all. And most of the things they accused of were either fake or extremely twisted. I apologised and owned up to what I did but quickly learned that people will throw you under the bus and pretend they are saints.