This is like the telephone rumor game, where one person whispers something to someone else, and so on down the chain. The “something” is almost always hilariously corrupted.
Hearsay multiple times removed is still hearsay.
This is just like the sopranos episode where Tony had a car accident with Christopher’s girlfriend. They show the story being repeated by numerous people until finally Uncle junior is telling someone that when they found Tony Adriana was still performing fellatio on him.