would you call her on it?

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I have this younger cousin who is also my sister-in-law (long story) and we had gotten pretty close. Well things happened and she probably won't be my sister-in-law any more and since I've moved away we don't talk as much. I was hearing some things through my husband's family about her being a terrible liar but I pretty much told him to shut up about it, "don't badmouth my cousin and I won't badmouth your brother". And then I started hearing the same sort of things from my family (her mom and sisters are worried about her actually). But I tend to keep an open mind about such things and try to discourage the gossip part of it and so on. Anyway a few months back I told her something in confidence and it got back to my husband via his brother (who is her soon to be ex-huband, confused yet?). When I brought it up, she denied saying anything so I just dropped it. But I'm not telling her stuff like that any more either. So now her son is up here visiting and she gave me a different cell phone number because she gave her phone to her son. Well he's up here and the phone's alarm goes off. It's a reminder to take birth control pills. So I was joking with her about it and she says, "so that's how he found out." I asked her what she was talking about and she tells me her (soon to be ex) husband called up and made up some story about Kaiser calling and leaving a message about her birth control pills. Grilled her about it and so she told him it was none of his business. But she thinks his mom saw the alarm on the phone and told him she had this reminder on it about taking birth control pills. So that's when she tells me it's not her phone, it's her daughters, and that her daughter's on birth control to control her acne. And she asks me to turn the alarm off if I can figure it out. So when I turn the alarm off I see that the phone number on it is her old number. So bottom line, she lied to me about the birth control pills not being hers. Pretty funny considering she had already told me he had her phone and considering her son told his grandma and my kids and everybody that it was her phone. And I sure don't care that she's on birth control. If it hadn't already gotten back to her ex, I wouldn't have said anything (I have a strict stay out of the middle policy). But it did, so why does she have to lie to me about it? And not even a believable lie! Well unfortunately, my conclusion is that all the stories about her being a liar are probably true. I'm not going to say anything to her about it though some people would. Would you call her on it?