Angel: Punished. (Cordy nods) For what?”
Cordelia: I don’t know. For what I was? For everything I said in High School just because I could get away with it?

Yes, she did embellish during her early mean/gossip girl days back at Sunnydale High. Which is why I liked her reluctant involvement with the "Scooby Gang". Charisma Carpenter said Buffy fans didn't approach her back then. She had a better character arc on "Angel". I'm ignoring series four, because that wasn't the real Cordelia.