I don’t know if the headings are what people actually said to him or not, but it’s very sad to see him beat up about just trusting what people who he’s had a fruitful 8 year relationship with say. The blame shouldn’t be on him for being positive about what to him, had been a perfectly acceptable long-standing business relationship. The fact that he can eat this cost and said he’ll be fine means that he wasn’t simply being blind to the realities of the world/