Twilight ’s Robert Pattinson is living a lie?

Twilight’s Robert Pattinson likes to act modest about his life when he meets girls, but an insider says that it’s all part of his act. “My friend dated Robert for a couple of months in Los Angeles ,” says the insider. “She liked him a lot, but she believes he lied to her about things he told her when they first met.” Chief among his fibs was his story about his upbringing in the suburbs of London . “Robert told her he was poor. He said his dad didn’t have money and used to drive cabs,” claims the insider. According to officials at his former school, Robert, 22, was raised in the wealthy suburb of Barnes, where his father, Richard, imported and sold classic cars and his mother, Claire, worked for a modeling agency. The family was comfortable enough to send Robert and his two sisters to Harrodian, a private school which cost more than $24,000 per year. It was at school that Robert first discovered acting. Today, although Robert’s embellishments might have cost him a girlfriend, the actor says he was actually a bigger spinner of tales when he first came to Hollywood . “I’m not nearly as cocky as I was,” Robert says. “I just drank coffee and told everyone I was 24 and this famous theater actor just back from South Africa .”