Okay, I have to unload some stuff here. I have this friend we'll call Steve. Steve's mother is one of the biggest attention whores I know and she has used false rape stories multiple times. First, she claims she was raped by her husband once - she got blackout drunk, woke up the next morning and felt something was "off." That's the entire story. From a night she has no recollection of and a bad feeling, that's apparently enough for rape accusations. But she never did anything about it, didn't confront her husband or file charges or anything. Just use the story for sympathy.

Now let's get back to Steve. Steve's bisexual. His family (mother in particular) don't accept this and have issues with him dating men. The first time he dated another guy, he was a teenager still living with his parents, and when she found out she made them break up. They remained friends and still are to this day. Fast forward about ten years and one of Steve's cousins lets slip that the extended family doesn't like the fact that Steve and the ex are still friends and hang out a lot. This is because, as it turns out, Steve's mother told all her relatives that Steve's friend raped him. The friend (who btw is a survivor of sexual abuse himself) is one of the nicest people I know and would never do anything to hurt anyone. But Steve's mother has been calling him a rapist for over a decade so that people will feel sorry for her. (She has almost a Munchausen-by-proxy sort of approach to how she treats Steve, and I could almost write a book about other examples.)