My ex husbands friend made me cry. Does that mean I still love my ex?!

So I was talking to my ex husbands old work colleague who I knew from when I was in America and he's aware of me and my ex being broken up. He kept saying though that me and my ex are destined to be together and are meant for eachother but I doubted it.. With everything that's happened.

I said to this guy "is there something you aren't telling me? You seem so sure they were meant to be do you speak to my ex and he tells you stuff about me?"

To which he replied "yeah he speaks to me every couple of weeks, the last time we talked was a month ago and we discuss random stuff but he always says to give a good word in for him the next time we talk"

This really confused me because me and my ex don't even talk anymore and the last time we did he was really very rude to me and I said that to this guy and he stuck to his story like no no he always says to put a good word in for him.

Then as I started to believe him and deep down got a glimpse of hope that my ex wasn't a completeeee insensitive monster the guy turns around and says oh I'm just messing it was a joke. I haven't spoken to him for a year.

Immediately that made me cry. One for believing him but for allowing myself to think he could still be a good human deep down. I don't know if I cried though because I still love my ex... I was so certain that I wasn't and yet this upset me..

What is going on?!

Me and my ex have a kid together. Who he's never seen and we've been legally married for 3 years but separated for 2 years.