For context, my friend introduced me to his online girlfriend 4 months ago. They have been dating for 2 weeks and met each other a few days before dating (online) which I found quite suspicious but I thought nothing of it. After introducing his gf, he showed me a picture of her and I thought I recognized her. She reminded me of an influencer I followed online. I reversed searched her picture and put it through Pinterest. You guessed it, it was her in the picture. But here's the thing, the girl in the picture was famous on tiktok (1.3 million followers) and she sounded completely differently from my friends gf. I found out that the picture the gf was using was a screenshot from a video made by the said influencer. I came to the conclusion that he was being catfished and I told my guy bestfriend. He didn't like that I told him and he is extremely mad at me. We haven't talked for 3 months and I miss my friend. I really want to reach out again but don't know how.
EDIT: Thank you everyone for the comments and advice, unfortunately, I reached out about 15 minutes ago and said hi. I received an F off from him, I was surprised but should I give him more space?