People are sharing the secrets they learned about someone after many years of friendship – 23 closet rattling skeletons
If there’s anyone we can rely on to be completely honest with us, it’s our closest friends, right? Well, no actually, it seems they might be harbouring some deep secrets that we’d never suspect. Over on Reddit, user RestretUS asked:
What secret did you learn about someone after many years of friendship?
And the answers will have you wondering if your best mate is an international spy or something.
1.
‘I was on a team in high school for 4 years, got pretty close with the other girls on the team and we all hung out all of the time.
‘We decided to go bowling together and one of these girls, who we had spend hours a week with for years and talked about everything under the sun with, showed up with her own shoes, gloves, bag, and bowling ball and crushed us all with a near-professional score.’
–listenyall
2.
‘Finding out my best friend was secretly a published author blew my mind!’
–Annual-Use5039
3.
‘A good friend of mine that I’d known over 20 years died in 2021 from Covid. I noticed a bunch of children at the funeral that I didn’t know.
‘I asked who they were, and I was told that they were his children. He told me he had no kids but actually had 10. 10 kids!’
–CascadeJ1980
4.
‘My grandfather was always jumpy around thunderstorms. We assumed it was because he was shot down during the war and it sounded like anti-aircraft fire.
‘Nope! Turns out, when he was a teenager, he got struck by lightning! The craziest part was, this happened the day before he started dating my grandmother. And she’d never heard that story!’
–kingsmen06
5.
‘That he’s good friends with one of the band members from One Direction. I was shocked until he pulled up some of their childhood pics together, they have been friends a long time.’
–clumsy-bumblebee
6.
‘That my mom had a one night hook up with James Brown and kept her receipts to prove it.’
–AcademicCollection56
7.
‘I found out at her funeral (When I was in my late 40s) that my grandmother worked on the Manhattan Project as one of General Leslie Groves secretaries (what we would call an administrative assistant today) at Los Alamos and, before that, as a human calculator.’
–seaburno
8.
‘I recently discovered that a very good friend of mine who I’ve known for about 11 years had a security clearance several levels higher than POTUS.’
–ObjectReport
9.
‘He writes romance/porn novels under a pseudonym. He moved to a different country and was cagey about what he did for a living.
‘I went to visit and he had this really nice apartment and I was just like, ‘huh, his parents must have money’. Then I asked him why he had five framed pictures of this English woman’s smut novels and he spilled the beans.’
–My_browsing
10.
‘I’ve been married for 17 years. One day my husband’s mom came over and said here I cleaned out your room, take your violin. He then proceeded to play minuet in G.
‘I had never seen my husband play before, he never even mentioned it.’
–libremaison
11.
‘I was very close friends with this person from my college who I eventually found out came from an old money/billionaire family. I had no clue until I went to her house and she slowly revealed some details over time.
‘She was extremely down to hearth and humble and a very kind person. She wasn’t very lavish in how she dressed or presented herself either so I guess it was not very obvious.’
–Me-Being-Social
