What would you do if you found out that your diamond gift was not real?

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One of my girlfriend's husband got busted semi-cheating. He was flirting and lunching with this girl at his office. Emails and voice mails revealed his close call. He bought his wife a full carat diamond solitaire, as an apology and as a sign of his commitment. The band was too large, she went to have it sized and found out that the stone is cubic zirconia. This is about 6 months after the fact. She had already forgiven him for his indiscretion, but this is a new and seperate lie. Or is it? Was he so desperate to be forgiven for his mistakes that he would do something so tacky as to pass off a phony ring for the real McCoy? Or is he just a low-down dirty liar, who will stoop to any cheap trick to get his way? She hasn't told him that she knows yet because she doesn't want to seem materialistic and petty. I think that he just makes it worse because I have heard him brag about the "piece of the rock" that he put on his wife's hand! He brags about how it sparkles, about how many payments he has left on it, how it saved his marriage and even about the platinum of the setting! Bling, bling, baby! I was with her at the mall when she was told that it was a phony diamond. I felt bad for her but all I could say was "Hey, he knew how much trouble he was in, maybe he meant to replace it with the real thing" She had tears in her eyes when she said, "Nope, he just thinks he can tell me anything and I'll believe it" Now,she thinks that he really did have an affair with the girl from his job - and maybe it is still going on! What advice would you give her? How would you feel to be bamboozled like this?