you sad little pervert

do you speak any languages besides english or are you boring

AITA for enabling my lying coworker?

So this happened a few years ago at this point and I've since lost track of her, but. I had a coworker (mid-30s, F) who seemed really nice and grounded and practical until one day. She had come in on her day off really down for a reason she didn't want to go into, so the two of us who were on shift decided to treat her to dinner after we closed. During the meal, she took out her phone and said she was getting a facetime from "Ben."

Over the course of the call it became apparent that "Ben" was Benedict Cumberbatch (this was right at the height of the MCU's popularity). No sound was coming from the phone, and she didn't show us the screen, so she was absolutely faking it, really really badly. She explained that they'd met at Comicon and he was just so taken with her etc etc etc but it was totally platonic, she turned him down because she wasn't interested. But he'd introduced her to the rest of the MCU cast and now they were all buds. She offered to have one of them show up to my other coworker's son's birthday party later that month in his [insert fancy car brand here idk the breeds of cars]

We sort of...nodded and yes-anded her? We had no idea what else to do in this situation. She was already having a rough day and we didn't want to upset her, plus...what the fuck do you even say to that?

After that it was like a switch had flipped. She talked about her MCU buds at work, not constantly, but maybe once or twice a week. Everyone knew she was full of it but no one wanted to call her out, so we just kind of dealt with it. Was that an asshole thing of us to do?

Anyway then covid happened and the store shut down, and when it was time to reopen she ghosted the manager and never talked to any of us again (although we saw her in the mall occasionally nowhere near our store, nothing terrible happened to her, don't worry)