Anonymous Confession

Aight so am I wrong for this? For context this is me and one of my ex-school friends. When we first met up, one of the first "personal talks" we had was about him having a crush on this girl in my school. Normally, this wouldn't be an issue, BUT, when he told me who it was, it turned out she was also the same girl that I liked. BUT, being a good friend, I didn't say anything about it. However, I come to learn that this dude has had a crush on her for a little over THREE WHOLE YEARS and more importantly, STILL hasn't asked her out. Over the school year, I try to give him pointers (😒) on how to ask this girl out. And even with me legendary pulling advice, he still managed to fumble at every turn. Closer to the end of the year, he finally asks her out straight out and open, and she rejects him. She is super chill about it too, I was there. But he took it personally, and not only got mad at her, BUT GOT MAD AT ME. Because, "apparently", he had known the whole time that she liked me instead. So, he decides to start talking shit about me, and start spreading the rumor that I had a crush on the same girl around the school. However, instead of trying to deny the middle school ahh rumor, I went with it. Saying that I did actually have a crush on the girl. Now, I could have left it at that. But I decided to ask her out just to spite him. Made sure he knew about it to. And me and her have now been dating for like 7 months now.