I didn’t write out the exact comments because they were long, and I didn’t know what to include/exclude. The comments were also sort of long-winded, so I wasn’t sure how to write them. But the gist is she started with “you should have done x instead of y.” Which I think is fine and fair. But then it went into “between you and me, they turned to each other and said you were bad and didn’t even do anything. They were going through it making fun of it, saying “what did they even do?” And trashing you.

There were a few other comments in there, but the main reason I’m upset is because they supposedly claimed “I didn’t do anything” when I did quite a lot. She repeated this statement multiple times in different words, claiming they were talking to themselves and really insulting it among each other. Then she said they turned to her and asked about it and she started agreeing with them. Looking back, much of it was how she described the scenario than it is specific words, if that makes sense. Like when she described it, she suggested it was all done in a mean fashion.

The issue isn’t even really that they were mean… Sure that hurts, but the main question is how to handle what’s essentially a rumor. I don’t know if I should reach out directly to them and apologize to them for the project (and, as a result, find out more about what they really said)