Whenever someone starts a sentence with “you won’t believe what I have to tell you”, chances are you’ll be all ears. It’s just the way our minds work. Even if you don’t spill the beans yourself, refraining from listening to gossip might be a challenge.
The members of Reddit’s 'Ask Women' community couldn’t keep the juiciest stories they’ve ever heard to themselves. Their accounts range from family drama, to disastrous break ups, work-related matters, and more. We have gathered some of the most shocking and enthralling examples into the list below. Scroll down for the stories that seem too surprising to be true.

#1

Tales from a large and very dysfunctional family:
Identical twin sisters are very close. Twin A marries but can’t be apart from her twin so the newlyweds invite twin B to live with them.
The 3 get along great for 10 + years until twin B develops feelings for her BIL. Twin A is completely blindsided when they come clean and hubby asks for a divorce so he can marry Twin B
Family is shocked but refuses to take sides.
Twin A cuts all ties makes a new life for herself.
Twin A cuts all ties makes a new life for herself.
Shockingly twin B’s marriage also ends in divorce a few years later when she discovers that the husband is having an affair with his brothers wife. Thus taking the phrase”keeping it in the family” to a whole new level
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195points
#2

A guy I used to work with ended up marrying his sons wife… his grandchildren are now his step children
186points
#3

I’m from a small pretty wealthy village in Central Europe. A lot of gossip. The best thing that comes to mind: my mum’s cousin married the holiest of women in the village. She is always in the front every Sunday in church praying the loudest. They have multiple children together, all grown up now. One of the son’s didn’t look anything like her or his dad, but very much like a rich farmer from the village. Everyone talked about how he looks just like his twin (they kinda looked like blonde Elvis 🤣). Well he went on to marry the daughter of said wealthy farmer. Only after years of marriage when they wanted children someone must have told them what’s up. Apparently they took DNA tests and eventually they divorced. So. They were probably half siblings.
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#4

Not as juicy as other stories here
Girl 1 was 'best friends' with girl 2 but would bully girl 2 for many things, one of them being the fact that she was born out of wedlock to a 16 year old mother. Girl 1's boyfriend leaves her for girl 2, entire school tells them "you make a cute couple" (they never said this when bf was with girl 1)
Girl 1 finds a new guy, proceeds to have a baby born out of wedlock less than a year later at age 17
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157points
#5

As a hair stylist, I hear a lot of crazy gossip. Sometimes I’ll get a client and they’ll refer their sibling or parent or some other relative. I just have to pretend I don’t know s**t when they start telling me gossip about other clients. It’s wild.
A friend/client of mine referred her aunt and she was very comfortable telling me a lot of her personal business. Aunt wouldn’t stop telling me how much she hates her son-in-law and vice versa. They despise each other. Her and her daughter are very close and I was thinking maybe she’s just overbearing or overprotective of her. She then refers her daughter to me. I don’t tell her anything her mom says to me. Daughter tells me that her husband cheated on her before so she’s just mentally checked out of their marriage. She knows he lies and says he’s staying late for work when he’s actually seeing some other girls. She doesn’t care anymore, she just stays for the kids. Because of this, her mom hates him and tries to keep the kids away from their dad. She takes care of the kids when the daughter works cause the husband won’t show up to pick up the kids just to avoid seeing her. SO fast forward a couple weeks later, we cycle back to my friend who originally referred them to me. She asked me how the appointment went. I said good, I was vague about it, I just said that it seems like they’re going through a lot. She then spills the beans.
Long story short:
The woman that the daughter’s husband was having an affair with is her OWN MOTHER. He cut things off with her and she now hates him and makes his life difficult. The daughter doesn’t know. The mother’s husband knows she had an affair but doesn’t know it’s with the son in law. Several people in the family know but no one is telling them. It’s a f*****g mess.
A friend/client of mine referred her aunt and she was very comfortable telling me a lot of her personal business. Aunt wouldn’t stop telling me how much she hates her son-in-law and vice versa. They despise each other. Her and her daughter are very close and I was thinking maybe she’s just overbearing or overprotective of her. She then refers her daughter to me. I don’t tell her anything her mom says to me. Daughter tells me that her husband cheated on her before so she’s just mentally checked out of their marriage. She knows he lies and says he’s staying late for work when he’s actually seeing some other girls. She doesn’t care anymore, she just stays for the kids. Because of this, her mom hates him and tries to keep the kids away from their dad. She takes care of the kids when the daughter works cause the husband won’t show up to pick up the kids just to avoid seeing her. SO fast forward a couple weeks later, we cycle back to my friend who originally referred them to me. She asked me how the appointment went. I said good, I was vague about it, I just said that it seems like they’re going through a lot. She then spills the beans.
Long story short:
The woman that the daughter’s husband was having an affair with is her OWN MOTHER. He cut things off with her and she now hates him and makes his life difficult. The daughter doesn’t know. The mother’s husband knows she had an affair but doesn’t know it’s with the son in law. Several people in the family know but no one is telling them. It’s a f*****g mess.
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#6

I grew up in a VERY tiny community. I lived just left from the middle of nowhere and we all knew eachother. When I was maybe 12 or 13 my best friend’s aunt got a little tipsy and told us that the local hairdresser and her husband were swingers and had approached her and her husband at a bar. Me and my friend giggle about it, but overall it wasn’t a shocking revelation.
This past year my best friend’s aunt died, it was awful and really shook the community. We were all sharing stories of her impact on our lives and I mention how she had told me and my best friend that the hairdresser and her husband were swingers and how it was funny at the time.
Now being an adult, my mom decides to let me in on the juicy gossip. Apparently it wasn’t just the hairdresser and her husband, but everyone who lived on their street! A whole suburb-like development in a small a*s town that was made with the entire purpose of swinging. Teachers, seamstresses, the guy that does taxes, everyone. So many absolute pillars of the community had settled and specifically made a swingers suburb. Whenever anyone had moved out of the area apparently it was an exile of the couple from the swinging group and was quite the debacle.
It was just common knowledge apparently, but I had reached the age to know about it. Now whenever I go on facebook once in a blue moon and see posts of them hanging out I have a giggle to myself and think of Aunt.
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#7

My half sister's boyfriend (maybe 20? 21?) Has been cuddling with my stepmom (40). Apparently they're very close and love to touch each other and have regular 'spooning' time where just the two of them go lay down in my dad's marital bed. My half sister is apparently ok with it now, but she was very upset in the beginning. Can't imagine what he told her to make it sound ok.
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#8

A friend went to visit her father who lives abroad and found out that he had a new wife…and child…and another on the way. Everyone knew besides her and her mother…who was still married to him!!!
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#9

17 year old boy got a 14 year old girl pregnant while at school, so the welfare department got involved. The boys mother worked for a lady lawyer, so she helped and advised the son on what to do. (Lawyer was in her 30s and married, no kids)
No clue what happened to baby but it never materialized so was either BS or miscarried. Next thing boy and lawyer lady are having an affair and she's pregnant with his child. Still together a year later.
Life can be stranger than fiction.
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#10

I used to be in a Facebook group where drama would kick off constantly. It was a pretty toxic place but I stayed for ages just to lurk on the shenanigans. Probably the biggest drama was a woman who had been in the group for years since the beginning. There was a kind of core “in crowd” who basically lived most of their lives on this group, she was one of the most popular and well loved of them and had close online friendships with many members outside of the group. This woman had experienced lots of miscarriages and her child had died in infancy and she posted a lot about how she was really struggling with it. She recently had adopted a baby and everyone in the group was super supportive and she’d post updates all the time about how it was going.
Well it turned out that this person wasn’t who they said they was, they were a catfish with fake pictures and a whole fake life story. Basically some of the members became suspicious and did some hardcore online sleuthing and discovered the real person behind the photos and other things that proved they were a catfish. This person had made close connections with other people who had been through infant loss who had shared really intimate details of their lives with her. I believe she may have also taken money from people as well. When I tell you people went wild, it went on for weeks with literally hundreds of posts about it, thousands of comments, just absolute mayhem. People were posting photos of themselves crying, it was like someone had died.
Another thing that happened was one of the members discovered her partner had been cheating on her and posted a video that she’d found of him having sex with another woman and poking his finger up her bum. It then came to light that this woman was a member of a right wing white supremacy organisation. That was another wild one.
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#11

Someone I know’s grandmother found her husband in bed with her own dad. (Husband + his father in law going at it)
This was in the 60’s, they stayed together and never divorced.
105points
#12
A friend of mine broke up with her boyfriend and slept with his guy who she had the biggest crush on for YEARS. A few days later she started getting a burning in her vagina. She thought it was a yeast infection. NOPE! It was herpes.
However, the guy she slept with had never had a herpes outbreak prior to the current one so his herpes was new too. Where did guy A get the herpes from? He slept with a woman who had a recent herpes outbreak. This woman also slept with guy A's FATHER and is now pregnant!
But where did the herpes originally come from? From guy A's father.
So to sum up this woman is now pregnant, they don't know if the childs father is father or son, and now everyone has herpes.
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99points
#13

I had a roommate in college that was trying to get into modeling. She met a military guy and convinced him to buy her giant boobies within like a week. She moved out shortly after the surgery and I never talked to her again.
I stayed at the same house for a few more years and one day a cop comes knocking looking for her. Turns out, after the surgery, she ghosted the military guy and changed her phone number. Her moving out was so he couldn't track her down for the boobies money. I imagine the military guy was trying to sue her or something.
I never really liked her but it always makes me smile thinking about the absurdity of this story.
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#14

Worked at an assisted living dementia unit. The activity director “Barbie” was attracted to “Ken” who was a phlebotomist that would come in occasionally. Then, her boss “Kim” (who was also Barbie’s cousin) started realizing Ken was showing up more often. So one day she went back there and found them both in a patients room in the patients bed. Obvi, she was fired on the spot. Ken was fired from his job as well. Oh yeah, Barbie and Ken are both married…. To other people.
That would have been bad enough but it gets worse. The patients family had installed a camera in the room so they could watch Granny sleep. Kim knew about it but Barbie hadn’t been told yet. The family saw a lot more than sleeping. They were not happy.
That would have been bad enough but it gets worse. The patients family had installed a camera in the room so they could watch Granny sleep. Kim knew about it but Barbie hadn’t been told yet. The family saw a lot more than sleeping. They were not happy.
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#15

A friend of mine was sleeping around and got pregnant. She had to have 5 or 6 paternity tests before she found out who the father was.
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88points
#16

My fiancés cousin just got divorced because his WIFE found him passed out on the couch with Grindr open. He had cheated on her with men every chance he got the entire time they were married. Grocery store, gym, work- every time she left he invited someone over. He slept with his male best friend after she went to sleep on a camping trip the three of them. No one in the family knows this but me and her. My fiancés brother’s wife cheated on him with a male stripper in Vegas. And his other brother’s wife couldn’t decide who to let raise their daughter because she was hooking up with him and another guy at the same time who offered to raise her as well. I walked into family drama at every angle that no one knows but me 😅
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#17

Juicy gossip happened over the summer and when the teachers return to school we find out that the third grade teacher is getting a divorce. Shocking bc she’s married to her high school sweetheart, the only bf she’d ever had, been together 20 years. Apparently he has a whole other fiancé living with her and everything. His real wife thought his job involved a lot of travel but he was actually at the other woman’s house right across town. So here she is raising two kids. Running them to dr and sports and everything else while he’s getting laid.
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#18

My aunt has been married for 28 years to my uncle but only married him after breaking up with my family’s neighbor’s son 6 months earlier who she grew up with. My uncle doesn’t know this but she has spent every Wednesday with our neighbor’s son since they got married. Also her eldest son looks more like our neighbors than my uncle.
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77points
#19

A super famous guy in my last job's industry faked a brain tumour to cover up his drug problem, but apparently he's been found out because he was siphoning money away from his benefactors.
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74points
#20

oh where to start! My uncle let his cousin and his wife stay with him since he had a bigger house and lived alone. Eventually we all figured out they were having an affair with his cousins wife and everyone suspects the younger child is my uncles. They all went their seperate ways and my uncle married another woman he hates, half his age who doesnt know he has a secret child. No one talks about it, just like we don't talk about my aunt who is gay and her "roomate" is actually her partner. Everyone knows but apparently we are just gonna pretend like we don't know.
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