Pussy Riot - Is That a Meme?

Pussy Riot got away with saying they had been poisoned by Putin and were like dying in the hospital. Then all of a sudden they were like, no, we're fine. They didn't get poison. But it was like a story for a good week. I don't know if it was a stunt or the guy actually just got really sick. And then he just was paranoid. It raises a lot of questions about like, who actually did that? Were they poison? Because Navalny survived. Of course, he didn't seem to be suffering any like long term side effects.