it seemed to me that delora started actively and openly disliking me around the time that I relapsed over a year ago, and she tried to come on to xad (sending an unsolicited nude etc) and he turned her down.
Her version ought to be interesting to compare with yours.
If the story has no basis, we'll see it for ourselves.
in the conversation she was acting like properly sociopathic and she was saying things about how it felt good to "seen" finally, so I was going along with it and trying to make her feel like I was a companion she could feel comfortable sharing with
So again, ignoring the character smearing you're trying here, you play characters in order to get the things you want out of people.
This is effectively Exhibit A.
perhaps naive of me to assume she wasn't trying to bait me into saying something that could later be used against me
I don't really see Delora as this schemey mastermind. She gets things wrong sometimes but she's not really the sort of poise that works off of bait-and-switch, she rushes into things instead.
and I'm not denying that I certainly said things that could be used against me
Of what nature? You felt inspired to delete it, so it must have been something you wanted to keep hidden.
but I wasn't worried at the time about what I was saying as I never imagined that I would have to defend myself against it. When I realised that was also naive of me (quite a while later), I deleted the conversation.
How often do you usually find yourself deleting conversations like this?
I think I've defended myself enough already tbh, I get that you're curious but it's actually kind of, and I mean no offence, not really your business, regardless of the fact that some people might feel entitled to more information now that certain things have already been made public by either myself, xad or shifty. anyway, the people who are close to me know the truth and that's more than enough for me :)
Your defensiveness could just as easily mean that we're onto something.
EDIT: I bear delora no ill will, I'm glad she seems to be happy with bo
No, you clearly do. Stop with the fake PR, the above is not "no ill will", this is practically smearing her name and credibility pure and simple.
Her side of the story is the only way to balance this out.